Courses

Studies friendships between individuals and groups, applying social psychological theories of interaction and group processes. Examines the effects of hierarchies of status and power and of norms and social pressure on friendships. Attempts to answer questions like how social categories like gender, race, and class affect friendships, what are the unwritten rules of behavior among friends in different situations, and what happens when we violate them. Prereq., SOCY 1001. Restricted to junior/senior SOCY majors.

Helps students design and initiate an honors thesis based on original sociological research. Prereqs., SOCY 1001, and SOCY 3001 or 3011, and instructor consent. Restricted to Sociology majors with a minimum grade point average of 3.30. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Junior or Senior) Sociology (SOCY) majors only.

Helps students complete an honors thesis based on original sociological research. Emphasizes analyzing data, writing research reports, and presenting results. Prereqs., SOCY 1001, and SOCY 3001 or 3011, and instructor consent. Restricted to Sociology majors with a minimum grade point average of 3.30. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Junior or Senior) Sociology (SOCY) majors only.

Examines a sociological topic in depth, covering such issues as class structure, race relations, gender roles, criminal justice, and political conflict, with an emphasis on writing, reading, and critical thinking. Prereqs., SOCY 1001, and SOCY 3001 or 3011. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 87-180 credits (Senior, Fifth Year Senior) Sociology (SOCY) majors only.

Upper-division variable credit. May be repeated up to 8 total credit hours. Prereqs., SOCY 1001, and SOCY 3001 or 3011, and instructor consent. Restricted to SOCY majors. Prerequisites: Restricted to Sociology majors only.

Students participate in a teaching seminar under the supervision of a faculty member. Includes pedagogical strategies for implementing concrete educational goals and encouraging higher levels of creativity and analysis in a large, lower-division class. Emphasizes mentorship and personal development. Prereqs., SOCY 1004 and instructor consent. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Junior or Senior) Sociology (SOCY) majors only.

Provides an academically supervised opportunity for junior and senior sociology majors to work in publicor private organizations. Focuses on opportunities in criminal justice system, education, non-profits, health care, etc. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Prereqs., SOCY 1001 and 3001 or 3011. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Junior or Senior) Sociology (SOCY) majors only.

Principles and practice of social research, includingthe nature of scientific explanation, the relationship between theory and research, research design, measurement problems, sampling questionnaire construction, interviewing, ethnographic methods, and statistical analysis.

Same as SOCY 4071.

Introduces statistical analysis in the social sciences. Introduces basic techniques of inferentialstatistics and several bivariate statistical techniques including t-test for the difference in means, chi-square independence, analysis of variance (ANOVA), correlation, and simple regression (OLS). This course prepares students for the required course on multivariate regression techniques (Data 2). Prerequisites: Restricted to Sociology (SOCY) graduate students only.

Examines theoretical approaches to core issues and problems in sociology, including the nature of society, the relationship between society and the individual, the role of culture and social structure, the sources of social power, and the conceptual structure of sociological knowledge itself. Prerequisites: Restricted to Sociology (SOCY) graduate students only.

Learn how to teach sociology more effectively while developing a new content area and a clearer sense of the field. Choose a content area within sociology as the basis for planning a course and developing and practicing different teaching techniques. Prereqs., enrollment in SOCY graduate program.

Graduate variable credit. May be repeated up to 7 total credit hours. Prereq., instructor consent.

Explores "The cultural turn" in sociology and relateddisciplines. Reviews basic themes in cultural studies--e.g., distinguishing "Cultural" and "Social"; narrative as catalyst between symbols and practices; cultural production processes; self as embodied; culture and power; methods and epistemological issues. Students present their own projects in class and as research papers. Prereq., graduate standing. Formerly SOCY 5041.

Introduces students to mainstream multivariate regression techniques used in the social sciences. The majority of the course focuses on the Ordinary Least Square model and on the extension of this model to nominal, ordinal, and count dependent variables. Students will analyze data of their choosing with statistical software packages including SPSS, SAS, and STATA. Prereq., SOCY 5111 or equivalent. Formerly SOCY 5021.

Training in the systematic observation of people in situations, finding them where they are, staying with them in a role acceptable to them that allows intimate observations of behavior. Students report their findings in ways useful to social science but not harmful to those observed. Formerly SOCY 5121. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Introduces first-year graduate students to the full range of substantive topics, research programs, and other projects in which graduate sociology faculty are engaged. Provides a forum in which issues of the discipline are presented and discussed. Features weekly presentations by graduate sociology faculty. Restricted to graduate students. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Offers guidance and instruction on topics related to advanced graduate study and academic life beyond graduation. Discussions will include writing journal articles; creating a vitae; writing dissertations; applying for grants and other sources of funding; the academic job search; and what to expect as a junior faculty member. Restricted to graduate students.

May be repeated up to 7 total credit hours. Prereq., graduate standing. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Denotes third graduate course in sequence of quantitative methods. Following basic inferential statistics (SOCY 5111) and multivariate regression analysis (SOCY 6111), students study advanced statistical techniques such as event history analysis, multilevel modeling, structural equation modeling, and latent class analysis. May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours when topics vary. Prereqs., SOCY 5111 and 6111 and graduate standing. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Drawing on data gathered through participation, observation, and in-depth interviewing, students focus on developing theoretical analyses and exploring classical and post-modern ethnographic writing formats. Students present and revise their papersas well as review journal articles. Prereqs., graduate standing and Socy 5121 or 6121, or instructor consent. Formerly Socy 5221. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Studies the individual in social context. Focuses on theoretical perspectives and substantive issues specific to sociological and social psychology, including socialization, the self, social roles, language, deviance, gender, collective behavior, group processes, attitudes and behavior, social norms,and conformity. Formerly SOCY 5531.

May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.