Courses

• GRS RN 797: Philosophical and Theological Approaches to Religion
  An introduction to philosophical and theological approaches to the study of religion(s) as distinct from other humanities-based and social-scientific approaches. Provides a common vocabulary for students pursuing historical, constructive, or interdisciplinary projects related to religious thought.
• GRS RN 798: Scientific Approaches to Religion
  A seminar examining interpretations of religious beliefs, behaviors, and experiences deriving from the biological, evolutionary, psychological, cognitive, neurological, and medical sciences.
• GRS RN 799: Topics in Judaic Studies
  Topic for Spring 2013: TBA.
• GRS RN 981: Dis St East Rel
  
• GRS RN 982: Dir St East Rel
  
• GRS RN 983: Dir St Sanskri
  
• GRS RN 985: Dr St Zank
  
• GRS RN 997: Direct Stud-Rel
  
• GRS RN 998: Direct Stud-Rel
  
• GRS SO 699: Teaching College Sociology I
  The goals, contents, and methods of instruction in sociology. General teaching-learning issues. Required of all teaching fellows.
• GRS SO 701: Advanced Sociological Theory (Classical)
  Primarily for first-year graduate students. Required for master's degree in sociology. Advanced survey and review of sociological theory and theorists.
• GRS SO 702: Proseminar: Sociological Methods
  Designed primarily for first-year graduate students. Review of major sociological methods. Required for master's degree in sociology.
• GRS SO 708: Contemporary Sociological Theory
  Covers the basic elements of the major theoretical paradigms in modern sociology, covering topics and problems in the philosophy of social science and current controversies in the field.
• GRS SO 765: The Sociology of Religion
  
• GRS SO 803: Seminar: Gender Stratification
  This course will allow students to further their understanding of the persistence of inequality between women and men in the workforce. What has changed and what has remained the same? We will examine the nature and causes of inequality in post/industrial societies, especially in the United sttes. Students will have the opportunity to engage in independent scholarship in the seminar, exploring their own questions about gender and work in greater depth.
• GRS SO 804: Seminar: The Family
  Implications for contemporary family life of global economic and cultural processes. Topics include pre-industrial polygyny in China; working-class family and kinship in industrializing U.K.; African American slave families in the antebellum South; the rise of the "modern" family system; and contemporary family forms and processes including gay and lesbian families, the effects of reproductive technologies on family life, and the intergenerational complexities of racial-ethnic families enmeshed in poverty, drugs, and the criminal justice system.
• GRS SO 808: Seminar: Ethnic, Race, and Minority Relations
  Formation and position of ethnic minorities in the United States, including cross-group comparisons from England, Africa, and other parts of the world. Readings and field experience.
• GRS SO 811: Seminar: Sociology of the Nonprofit Sector
  Introduction to sociological research on that part of society known as the nonprofit sector, including nonprofit organizations, community-based organizations, voluntary associations, and social movements. Focus on some of the literature’s major themes: civil society, social capital, and nongovernmental organizations.
• GRS SO 812: Seminar: Religion and Social Identity
  This seminar will explore a variety of theoretical perspectives on the social formation of modern persons, asking how those insights inform an understanding of individual and collective religious identity. Students will also participate in field research foxused on the intersection of religious and social identities.
• GRS SO 815: Seminar: Sociology of Law
  Criminal law as a form of social control. The effect of social processes and social systems on the legal definition of crimes and the administration of criminal justice.

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