Courses For Sociology At American University Washington DC
SOCY-099
SOCIOLOGY
Course Level: Graduate
SOCY-100
SOCIOLOGY
Course Level: Undergraduate
American Society 4:1 (3)
American pluralism and the variety of social arrangements and relationships found in American society. The emphasis is on how society is stratified; how organizations and institutions influence the way Americans think, talk, feel, and act; and how different groups (racial and ethnic) and divisions (gender and class) within society have differential access to power and privilege. Usually offered every term.
SOCY-110
SOCIOLOGY
Course Level: Undergraduate
Views from the Third World 3:1 (3)
Introduction to the sociology of the Third World through study of the works of its own intellectuals and political leaders. Reflections on Third World societal structures and explanations of dilemmas of development and of strategies for overcoming these dilemmas. The course links texts to their Third World context. Usually offered every term.
SOCY-150
SOCIOLOGY
Course Level: Undergraduate
Global Sociology 4:1 (3)
An introduction to sociology that focuses on the process of global social change as a critical factor in understanding contemporary societies. It emphasizes macrosociology (the study of large organizations and whole societies) and the creation of today’s global society, including similarities and differences within it. Two major themes - modernization and globalization - are emphasized and their implications for individuals, groups, communities, societies, and governments are explored. Usually offered every term.
SOCY-194
SOCIOLOGY
Course Level: Undergraduate
SOCY-196
SOCIOLOGY
Course Level: Undergraduate
Selected Topics: Non-recurring (1-6)
Topics vary by section, may be repeated for credit with different topic.
SOCY-205
SOCIOLOGY
Course Level: Undergraduate
The Family 4:2 (3)
The family as a social institution in a changing society. Social inequalities of class, race, ethnicity, and gender as key factors in shaping diverse forms and experiences in family life. Theoretical and actual alternatives to family patterns as well as the future of the American family. Usually offered every term. Prerequisite for General Education credit: ANTH-150 or PSYC-105 or SOCY-100 or WGST-125.
SOCY-205
SOCIOLOGY
Course Level: Undergraduate
Families in Sociological Perspective 4:2 (3)
The family as a social institution in a changing society. Social inequalities of class, race, ethnicity, and gender as key factors in shaping diverse forms and experiences in family life. Theoretical and actual alternatives to family patterns as well as the future of the American family. Usually offered every term. Prerequisite for General Education credit: ANTH-150 or PSYC-105 or SOCY-100 or WGST-125.
SOCY-210
SOCIOLOGY
Course Level: Undergraduate
Inequality: Class, Race, Ethnicity 4:2 (3)
Structured inequality in society in socioeconomic, racial, and gender terms. How the individual’s life and experiences are circumscribed and structured by his or her position in the social stratification system. How and why stratification systems emerge and are reproduced and their alternatives. Usually offered every term. Prerequisite for General Education credit: COMM-100 or ECON-100 or GOVT-110 or SOCY-150.
SOCY-215
SOCIOLOGY
Course Level: Undergraduate
The Rise of Critical Social Thought 2:2 (3)
Issues about social science as a critical vision of society; imagined social possibilities and their comparison to existing social institutions. Secondary themes are individual development, community, large societal institutions, the effects of industrialism and capitalism, and the limits of social science knowledge as a guide to social planning and social action. Usually offered every term. Prerequisite for General Education credit: GOVT-105 or HIST-115 or JLS-110 or PHIL-105 or RELG-105.
SOCY-225
SOCIOLOGY
Course Level: Undergraduate
Contemporary Arab World 3:2 (3)
The social, economic, and political structure of the Arab World with special emphasis on the impact on this region of the rise and fall of oil revenues. A macrosociological approach places the region in the global political economy and introduces students to its problematics and historical-cultural specificity. Usually offered every term. Prerequisite for General Education credit: ECON-110 or GOVT-130 or HIST-120 or SIS-105 or SIS-110.
SOCY-235
SOCIOLOGY
Course Level: Undergraduate
Women in the Third World 3:2 (3)
Focusing on Third World women and social change in different cultural contexts and in the global political-economic system, this course emphasizes the centrality of women in the rapidly changing world, particularly in terms of work, distributive justice, development policy, democratization, and the environment. Usually offered every spring. Prerequisite for General Education credit: ANTH-110 or LIT-150 or RELG-185 or SIS-140 or SOCY-110.
SOCY-294
SOCIOLOGY
Course Level: Undergraduate
SOCY-296
SOCIOLOGY
Course Level: Undergraduate
Selected Topics: Non-recurring (1-6)
Topics vary by section, may be repeated for credit with different topic.
SOCY-315
SOCIOLOGY
Course Level: Undergraduate
Major Social Theorists (3)
Examines the contributions of major thinkers in social theory. Focus on both “classical” thinkers, such as Marx, Durkheim, and Weber, and more contemporary theorists, such as George Herbert Mead, Talcot Parsons, and Simone de Beauvoir. Traces formative influences on existing schools of social theory. Usually offered every fall. Prerequisite: SOCY-100 or SOCY-150.
SOCY-320
SOCIOLOGY
Course Level: Undergraduate
Introduction to Social Research (3)
An introduction to the major research methods in social science, their links to theory and practice, and their use in research projects. Usually offered every fall. Prerequisite: SOCY-100 or permission of instructor.
SOCY-330
SOCIOLOGY
Course Level: Undergraduate
Conflict and Change: Macrosociological Perspectives (3)
Analysis of socio-political processes in the development of national, regional, and world systems. The formation of social movements in this context. Usually offered every spring. Meets with SOCY-630. Prerequisite: SOCY-100 or SOCY-150.
SOCY-340
SOCIOLOGY
Course Level: Undergraduate
Israeli Society (3)
This course explores the emergence of Israeli society and its changes over time. It reviews Israel’s ideological and political foundations, the centrality of immigration, the emergence of Arab minorities and Jewish ethnic divisions, and assesses political, economic, religious, and family patterns within the broader Jewish and Palestinian communities. Meets with SOCY-640. Usually offered every spring.
SOCY-350
SOCIOLOGY
Course Level: Undergraduate
Social Problems in a Changing World (3)
Sociological perspectives on the construction of social problems in a changing world. Focus on analysis of contrasting views and solutions for such conditions as global inequality, environmental degradation, population growth, inequalities based on economic class, race, gender, sexual orientation, and age, and institutional crises involving families, education, health care, crime, and justice. Usually offered every fall. Prerequisite: SOCY-100 or SOCY-150.
SOCY-351
SOCIOLOGY
Course Level: Undergraduate
Race and Ethnic Conflict: Global Perspectives (3)
A focus on what happens when divergent types of persons experience social contact. Racial, ethnic, tribal, national, and religious interactions throughout the world. The processes include conflict, amalgamation, acculturation, assimilation, prejudice, and discrimination. Usually offered every fall. Prerequisite: SOCY-100 or SOCY-150.
SOCY-352
SOCIOLOGY
Course Level: Undergraduate
Women, Men, and Social Change (3)
Focuses on gender as a basic organizational principle of social life in order to study the social construction of gender and how gender relationships are transformed in the process of social change. The course examines how race, class, and gender interact with culture in shaping the lives, social positions and relationships of diverse kinds of women and men in a changing world. Usually offered every spring. Prerequisite: SOCY-100 or SOCY-150.
SOCY-353
SOCIOLOGY
Course Level: Undergraduate
The Human Condition and the Totalitarian Experience (3)
Offered as part of the AU Abroad program in Berlin, this course outlines the classical concept of the totalitarian state as developed by Hannah Arendt and others, taking Hitler and Stalin as their models. It covers modifications in theories of totalitarianism as a result of historical changes and developments, as well as criticisms of the concept.
SOCY-354
SOCIOLOGY
Course Level: Undergraduate
White Privilege and Social Justice (3)
This course considers the social, legal, and media constructions of white racial identities in relation to issues of racial justice. It examines how white privilege intersects with gender, class, and sexuality. Students develop skills for multicultural alliances and strategies for antiracist activism. Usually offered every spring.
SOCY-365
SOCIOLOGY
Course Level: Undergraduate
Economic Development and Social Change (3)
A course on societal development that explores what it means for a society to “develop.” How do we measure a society’s development and what is known about the material, economic, political, social and cultural conditions necessary for development? What worked and what did not work in past development strategies and which strategy is most likely to succeed in the 1990’s global socio-economic system? Meets with SOCY-665. Usually offered every fall. Prerequisite: SOCY-100 or SOCY-150.
SOCY-367
SOCIOLOGY
Course Level: Undergraduate
The Post-Industrial Metropolis (3)
The transition to a post-industrial society has led to a dramatic socio-political restructuring of major cities into complex systems of urban-suburban metropolises. Regional, national, and international forces are responsible for the contemporary growth and economic prosperity of suburban “edge” cities and the concentration of poverty and racial-ethnic/national minorities in the central city. This course explores the emerging international hierarchy of “global cities” with the socio-spatial patterns of inequality and political conflict. Usually offered every spring. Prerequisite: SOCY-100 or SOCY-150.
SOCY-370
SOCIOLOGY
Course Level: Undergraduate
Power, Politics and Society (3)
Political sociology in a comparative global perspective including the role and functions of the state; relative state autonomy; state legitimacy; forms of democracy and democratization processes; state and civil society; political ideology and culture; and ethnicity, nationalism, and the state. Usually offered alternate springs. Prerequisite: SOCY-100 or SOCY-150.
SOCY-372
SOCIOLOGY
Course Level: Undergraduate
Law, Rights, and Society (3)
The comparative sociology of legal systems including state laws, social norms, and social control. Examines inequality in the provision of civil rights and legal statutes with regard to gender, ethnicity, and class. Also covers state legitimacy and the rule of the law; civil law, civil society, and economic development; and law, order, and movements for social change. Usually offered every spring. Prerequisite: SOCY-100 or SOCY-150.
SOCY-389
SOCIOLOGY
Course Level: Undergraduate
Society and the Global Environment (3)
Exploration into the relationship between social groups and the physical environment. Focus on the actions and reactions of public and policy groups in identifying and coping with natural and technological problems. Analysis of specific socio-environmental problems and the roles and methods of social scientists and others in social-impact assessment and social change. Meets with SOCY-689. Usually offered every spring.
SOCY-390
SOCIOLOGY
Course Level: Undergraduate
Independent Reading Course in Sociology (1-6)
Prerequisite: permission of instructor and department chair.
SOCY-392
SOCIOLOGY
Course Level: Undergraduate
Cooperative Education Field Experience (3-9)
Prerequisite: SOCY-100 or SOCY-150, placement by Cooperation Education Program, and permission of department chair and instructor.
SOCY-394
SOCIOLOGY
Course Level: Undergraduate
SOCY-395
SOCIOLOGY
Course Level: Undergraduate
SOCY-396
SOCIOLOGY
Course Level: Undergraduate
Selected Topics: Non-recurring (1-6)
Topics vary by section, may be repeated for credit with different topic.
SOCY-415
SOCIOLOGY
Course Level: Undergraduate
Current Issues in Social Theory (3)
Focus on contemporary social theories including postmodernism, feminism, neo-functionalism, rational choice, world-systems, and neo-Marxism. Traces relation - continuity and rupture - of current issues to classical traditions and important thinkers in social theory. Emphasis on issues of theory construction, evaluation, and critique. Usually offered every spring. Prerequisite: SOCY-100 or SOCY-150.
SOCY-423
SOCIOLOGY
Course Level: Undergraduate
Social Policy Research (3)
An overview of major issues in social-policy program evaluation. Types of evaluations and basic research methods appropriate to each. Practical experience in designing and carrying out both qualitative and quantitative evaluations of social programs. Usually offered alternate springs. Prerequisite: SOCY-320 or permission of instructor.
SOCY-490
SOCIOLOGY
Course Level: Undergraduate
Independent Study Project in Sociology (1-6)
Prerequisite: permission of instructor and department chair.
SOCY-491
SOCIOLOGY
Course Level: Undergraduate
Internship (1-6)
Internship in social service, social change, and social research agencies. Prerequisite: SOCY-100 or SOCY-150 (internships in social research agencies require SOCY-320), and permission of department chair and instructor.
SOCY-492
SOCIOLOGY
Course Level: Undergraduate
Major Seminar in Sociology (3)
Integrates social theory and research as well as social policy and advocacy through the examination of social issues of global significance. Focuses on questions such as who is defining the issue, what do sociologists say about the issue, and how central is sociological knowledge to understanding the issue? Usually offered every fall. Prerequisite: SOCY-100 or SOCY-150.
SOCY-494
SOCIOLOGY
Course Level: Undergraduate
SOCY-495
SOCIOLOGY
Course Level: Undergraduate
SOCY-496
SOCIOLOGY
Course Level: Undergraduate
Selected Topics: Non-recurring (1-6)
Topics vary by section, may be repeated for credit with different topic.
SOCY-498
SOCIOLOGY
Course Level: Undergraduate
Honors: Senior Year (1-6)
Prerequisite: permission of department and University Honors program.
SOCY-499
SOCIOLOGY
Course Level: Undergraduate
Honors: Senior Year (1-6)
Prerequisite: permission of department and University Honors program.
SOCY-515
SOCIOLOGY
Course Level: Undergraduate/Graduate
Models of Societal Development (3)
Analysis of the structure and dynamics of whole societies in the modern global system. Paradigms of societal development: classical Marxism, modernization, dependency, articulation of modes of production, world-system theory, neo-Marxism, neomodernization, etc. Consideration of growth with equity, structural adjustment, privatization and sustainable growth policies on societal structure and change. Usually offered every spring. Prerequisite: graduate standing or three courses in sociology.
SOCY-525
SOCIOLOGY
Course Level: Undergraduate/Graduate
Social Advocacy and Social Change (3)
Examines social change methods and mobilizing successful movements for social change: defining issues, forming constituencies, recruitment, choosing goals and strategies, criteria for choosing tactics, fundraising and resource mobilization, grassroots leadership development, handling the media, legislative coalitions and judicial remedies. Usually offered alternate springs. Prerequisite: graduate standing or three courses in sociology.
SOCY-531
SOCIOLOGY
Course Level: Undergraduate/Graduate
Regional Studies in Social Change (3)
Topics vary by section, may be repeated for credit with different topic. Topical courses examining social change in different parts of the world as a cause and consequence of economic development. Emphasis on the social effects of governmental or corporate policies. Examples include Latin America and the Middle East. Prerequisite: graduate standing or three courses in sociology.
SOCY-550
SOCIOLOGY
Course Level: Undergraduate/Graduate
Stratification: Socio-Economic Inequality (3)
A broad view of the varied sociological approaches to socio-economic stratification considered in terms of domestic, comparative-historical and international dimensions. Explores the functionalist, conflict and elite theories, methodologies of stratification, and the issues of social mobility, poverty and the welfare state. Investigates class formation and the social consequences of stratification on the individual, group and society. Usually offered every spring. Prerequisite: graduate standing or permission of instructor.
SOCY-551
SOCIOLOGY
Course Level: Undergraduate/Graduate
Sociology of Latino Studies (3)
Focusing on Latino populations and on Latino studies as an emergent field of study, this course references U.S. Latino populations as border populations, crossing over U.S./Latin American imaginaries. The “Latino” category helps problematize ethnic/racial categories, becoming a method of hybridity discussions. Though interdisciplinary, the course has a strong sociological foundation. Usually offered every spring. Prerequisite: three courses in sociology including SOCY-210, SOCY-231, or SOCY-35; or graduate standing.
SOCY-552
SOCIOLOGY
Course Level: Undergraduate/Graduate
Sociology of Popular Culture (3)
Popular culture is an increasingly central part of people’s lives. This course acquaints students with major sociological theories of popular culture and applies them to areas including music, films, mass media, race, identity, novels, love, and sex. Usually offered every spring.
SOCY-553
SOCIOLOGY
Course Level: Undergraduate/Graduate
Multiculturalism (3)
This course explores the politics of “difference” by examining multiculturalism in relationship to identity, culture, nationhood, and social justice. Particular attention is paid to how the concept of multiculturalism articulates notions of culture, knowledge, and power. The course has a strong theoretical orientation and requires students to assess and apply complex social theories of identity and difference to contemporary issues of inequality. Usually offered every fall. Prerequisite: three courses in sociology including SOCY-210, SOCY-351, or SOCY-354, or graduate standing.
SOCY-555
SOCIOLOGY
Course Level: Undergraduate/Graduate
Sociology of Language (3)
This course provides a practice-centered introduction to the sociology of language, an emergent approach to analyzing the production of meaning in social life. It explores the analytical power of simple inductive analysis, ethnomethodology, and poststructural discourse analysis. This course reflects the interdisciplinary ferment of contemporary social research and guides students in conducting cutting-edge, qualitative research. Prerequisite: SOCY-320 or graduate standing.
SOCY-560
SOCIOLOGY
Course Level: Undergraduate/Graduate
Labor Sociology: Critical Perspectives on Work and Workers (3)
Provides students with a broad overview of the varied sociological approaches to the field. Examines changing job structures, compensation patterns, labor market reorganization, rise of temporary workers, trends in organized labor, immigration impacts, and labor-management relations. Themes include post-Fordist labor relations, politics of flexible accumulation, consequences of industrial restructuring, trends in the post-industrial economy, and NAFTA.
SOCY-570
SOCIOLOGY
Course Level: Undergraduate/Graduate
Sociology of Gender and Family (3)
The study of gender and family as basic principles of the social order and primary social categories. Introduces students to the theories, data sources and applications of family structures and gender relationships in the United States and cross-culturally. Usually offered every fall. Prerequisite: graduate standing or three courses in sociology.
SOCY-580
SOCIOLOGY
Course Level: Undergraduate/Graduate
Social Policy Analysis (3)
Examines the variety of conceptual frames that social scientists use in analyzing social policies and provides a basis for their selection. A second part deals with the detailed analysis of case studies and introduces practitioners who contributed to them. Usually offered every fall. Prerequisite: graduate standing or three courses in sociology.
SOCY-582
SOCIOLOGY
Course Level: Undergraduate/Graduate
Children, Poverty, and Public Policy (3)
Examination of the current child poverty situation in the United States. Considers how poverty is defined, the numbers of poor children and causes of child poverty; anti-poverty policies such as the New Deal, the War on Poverty, and welfare reform law; and current proposals to reduce child poverty such as child care and training for the poor, job creation, and tax policy. Usually offered every spring. Prerequisite: SOCY-100 or SOCY-150 or graduate standing.
SOCY-590
SOCIOLOGY
Course Level: Undergraduate/Graduate
Independent Reading Course in Sociology (1-6)
Prerequisite: permission of instructor and department chair.
SOCY-595
SOCIOLOGY
Course Level: Undergraduate/Graduate
SOCY-596
SOCIOLOGY
Course Level: Undergraduate/Graduate
Selected Topics: Non-recurring (1-6)
Topics vary by section, may be repeated for credit with different topic.
SOCY-610
SOCIOLOGY
Course Level: Graduate
History of Sociological Theory (3)
Comparative study of major theorists in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Usually offered every fall.
SOCY-611
SOCIOLOGY
Course Level: Graduate
Modern Sociological Theory (3)
An analysis of modern sociological theories and major schools of social thought. Problems of theory construction. Usually offered every spring. Prerequisite: SOCY-610.
SOCY-620
SOCIOLOGY
Course Level: Graduate
SOCY-620
SOCIOLOGY
Course Level: Graduate
Social Research I (3)
Focuses on both qualitative and quantitative data collection. Emphasizes research practice, formulation and specification of research questions, ethics, development of research designs, fieldwork, interviewing, coding, measurement, and questionnaire design. Usually offered every fall. Prerequisite: STAT-514.
SOCY-621
SOCIOLOGY
Course Level: Graduate
Social Research II (3)
Focuses on data analysis of categorical and survey data including percentage tables and measures of association. Analysis of continuous data using regression, bivariate, multiple, and stepwise. Includes dummy variable, graphical tools, and assessment of supporting diagnostics. Usually offered every spring. Prerequisite: STAT-514 and SOCY-620.
SOCY-622
SOCIOLOGY
Course Level: Graduate
Selected Topics in Social Research Skills (1)
Topics vary by section, may be repeated for credit with different topic. Introduction to a specific research tool or method currently used in sociology; the options include research strategies (e.g., telephone surveys, focus groups), analysis techniques (e.g., event history, qualitative data), or particular applications of research methods (e.g., program evaluation, community action). Usually offered every term. Prerequisite: SOCY-620 or permission of instructor.
SOCY-630
SOCIOLOGY
Course Level: Graduate
Conflict and Change: Macrosociological Perspectives (3)
Analysis of socio-political processes in the development of national, regional, and world systems. The formation of social movements in this context. Usually offered every spring. Prerequisite: SOCY-515 or permission of instructor.
SOCY-635
SOCIOLOGY
Course Level: Graduate
Race, Gender and Social Justice (3)
This seminar explores the disjunction between biological myths of race and gender and their social construction as credible institutions; the historical, economic, and political roots of inequalities; the institutions and ideologies that buttress and challenge power relations; and the implications of social science teaching and research for understanding social class, race, gender discrimination. Issues of advocacy for social change are also explored. Usually offered every spring. Prerequisite: permission of instructor.
SOCY-640
SOCIOLOGY
Course Level: Graduate
Israeli Society (3)
This course explores the emergence of Israeli society and its changes over time. It reviews Israel’s ideological and political foundations, the centrality of immigration, the emergence of Arab minorities and Jewish ethnic divisions, and assesses political, economic, religious, and family patterns within the broader Jewish and Palestinian communities. Meets with SOCY-340. Usually offered every spring.
SOCY-650
SOCIOLOGY
Course Level: Graduate
Stratification: Race and Ethnicity (3)
This course investigates the structures of racial and ethnic stratification including their relationship to socio-economic inequality and stratification. Patterns of race and ethnic stratification are analyzed in their domestic, historical and international manifestations. The social constructions of racial and ethnic groups, consciousness and politics are considered. Also includes the interaction of class, race, ethnicity and gender. Usually offered every fall.
SOCY-665
SOCIOLOGY
Course Level: Graduate
Economic Development and Social Change (3)
A course on societal development that explores what it means for a society to “develop.” How do we measure a society’s development and what is known about the material, economic, political, social and cultural conditions necessary for development? What worked and what did not work in past development strategies and which strategy is most likely to succeed in the 1990’s global socio-economic system? Meets with SOCY-365. Usually offered every fall.
SOCY-669
SOCIOLOGY
Course Level: Graduate
Gender, Sexuality, and Migration (3)
This course is centered on the uses of gender and sexuality in studying migration patterns, immigration polices, and the personal meanings given to these by individuals. The class interrogates the use of gender and sexuality in studying (im)immigration patterns and policies and unpacks the relationship between gender and sexuality by looking at various migrations, or movements, between the categories themselves, and also through specific cases of the relationship to citizenship and the state to that of (im)migration and racialization. Usually offered alternate falls.
SOCY-670
SOCIOLOGY
Course Level: Graduate
Gender, Family, and Work (3)
Informs students about the interrelationship between work and family for both men and women. The course deals with research and policy concerns in both a national and cross-cultural perspective. Usually offered every spring. Prerequisite: SOCY-560, SOCY-570, or permission of instructor.
SOCY-680
SOCIOLOGY
Course Level: Graduate
Social Policy Research (3)
An introduction to research techniques in the fields of applied sociology, evaluation research, and the interdisciplinary arena of social policy studies. Provides students with the necessary sociological context and methodological expertise for participating in practical social policy research. Usually offered every spring. Prerequisite: SOCY-580 or permission of instructor.
SOCY-684
SOCIOLOGY
Course Level: Graduate
Seminar in Public Sociology (3)
Students review and analyze how well-known sociologists participate in public discourse through theoretically-grounded debate on pressing social issues; gain appreciation of sociology’s application to the public sphere; experience first-hand involvement in civic discourse on policy and the antecedent factors underlying social problems, and participate in constructing and evaluating social theories to inform civic discourse. Usually offered every spring.
SOCY-689
SOCIOLOGY
Course Level: Graduate
Environmental Sociology (3)
Exploration into the relationship between social groups and the physical environment. Focus on the actions and reactions of public and policy groups in identifying and coping with natural and technological problems. Analysis of specific socio-environmental problems and the roles and methods of social scientists and others in social-impact assessment and social change. Meets with SOCY-389. Usually offered every spring.
SOCY-690
SOCIOLOGY
Course Level: Graduate
Independent Study Project in Sociology (1-6)
Prerequisite: permission of instructor and department chair.
SOCY-691
SOCIOLOGY
Course Level: Graduate
Internship (1-6)
Prerequisite: permission of instructor and department chair.
SOCY-692
SOCIOLOGY
Course Level: Graduate
Cooperative Education Field Experience (3-6)
Prerequisite: permission of department chair and Cooperative Education office.
SOCY-695
SOCIOLOGY
Course Level: Graduate
Internship Seminar in Public Sociology (3)
Students share and discuss internship experiences. They gain an understanding of the sociological skill set applied to career opportunities and the challenges sociologists confront as they work with non-academic audiences such as policy analysts, business persons, government and nonprofit leaders, and applied social scientists, as well as issues faced by organizational leaders in funding, political controversy, organizational politics, and competition among nonprofit and/or governmental agencies. Usually offered every fall.
SOCY-696
SOCIOLOGY
Course Level: Graduate
Selected Topics: Non-recurring (1-6)
Topics vary by section, may be repeated for credit with different topic.
SOCY-720
SOCIOLOGY
Course Level: Graduate
Research Seminar in Sociology (3)
Identification and development of research subjects, relevant theoretical/conceptual perspectives and methodologies. Writing, organization and argumentation. Students research and write substantial papers based on appropriate sources and/or bases of data. Ph.D. candidates may use this course to develop dissertation proposals. Usually offered every fall.
SOCY-795
SOCIOLOGY
Course Level: Graduate
Master’s Research: Independent Study in Sociology (3)
Directed research under the supervision of a faculty member selected by the student. Preparation of a substantial research report on a topic related to the student’s field of concentration. Prerequisite: permission of instructor.
SOCY-796
SOCIOLOGY
Course Level: Graduate
SOCY-797
SOCIOLOGY
Course Level: Graduate
Master’s Thesis Independent Study (1-6)
Prerequisite: permission of department.
SOCY-799
SOCIOLOGY
Course Level: Graduate
Doctoral Dissertation Independent Study (1-12)
Directed dissertation research under the supervision of the student’s dissertation committee chair. Open to graduate students whose dissertation proposal has been approved by the department. Usually offered every term.
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