Courses

• GRS SO 817: Seminar: Community Sociology
  The study of communities in different settings; their organization and contribution to building a social and moral order in urban areas. The historical development of communities and the way persons adapt to urban life through communities are also considered.
• GRS SO 818: Medical Sociology
  Sociological factors in physical and mental illness as they operate in the community, hospitals, and interpersonal relations. Current research on selected topics in medical sociology; contributions to sociological theory and their practical application.
• GRS SO 820: Graduate Study in Women and Social Change in the Developing World
  Studies women in nonindustrial countries of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Stresses empirical research, theory, and methodology. Comparisons among regions and with industrial countries important. Focus on sex segregation, female labor force participation, migration, fertility, family roles, and women and political power.
• GRS SO 822: Advanced Seminar in Religion and Social Change
  This seminar examines the tools sociology brings to understanding the relationship between religious ideas and practices and the processes of micro and macro social change. It will cover both major theoretical perspectives and relevant research literature, with focused attention on a variety of historical and contemporary cases.
• GRS SO 834: Seminar: Mental Illness
  Sociology and social psychology in study of incidence and prevalence of mental illness, organization of treatment institutions, doctor-patient relationships, and community psychiatry.
• GRS SO 837: S:Soc Ofculture
  This course description is currently under construction.
• GRS SO 838: Seminar on International Migration
  Explores the social dynamics of contemporary international migration, ranging from the development of transnational migrant communities to the impact of state policies that strive to regulate migrant labor flows.
• GRS SO 840: Seminar: Political Sociology
  Explores sociological perspectives on political and civic life, including studies of political culture and ideology, social movements, elites and power, and community activism. Reviews classical perspectives on the state in society, and debates over individualism and participation in civil society.
• GRS SO 844: Seminar: Sociology of Education
  
• GRS SO 848: Culture, Markets, and Inequality
  This seminar examines commerce as a cultural process, focusing on cultural production and consumption practices in fields like fashion, music, and bodily goods and services. Traces the cultural construction and maintenance of gender, race, and class inequalities in markets.
• GRS SO 857: Seminar: Sociology of Mind
  Illustrates the various sociological approaches to "mental" phenomena and elucidates some recent developments in cognitive sociology. Contemporary disputes over the nature of "cognitive science" will be explored.
• GRS SO 862: Seminar: Great Theorists
  This seminar examines the ideas of Montesquieu, Saint-Simon, Wollstonecraft, Tocqueville, Martineau, Spencer, Pareto, Veblen, Simmel, and Du Bois through critiques of these seminal concepts: "relative deprivation," "the survival of the fittest," "conspicuous consumption," "the circulation of elites," and "double consciousness."
• GRS SO 947: Dr Field Conc
  
• GRS SO 948: Dr Field Conc
  
• GRS SO 951: Dissertation Workshop
  Seminar discussions of the framing of research proposals, different strategies for the completion of theses, appropriate types of scholarly publications, and the dissemination of research findings. Emphasis on the practical side of building a career as a professional sociologist.
• GRS SO 952: Dissertation Workshop
  Seminar discussions of the framing of research proposals, different strategies for the completion of theses, appropriate types of scholarly publications, and the dissemination of research findings. Emphasis on the practical side of building a career as a professional sociologist.
• GRS WR 698: Teaching Comp
  
• GRS WR 699: Teaching Col Wr
  
• GRS WS 699: Teachng Coll Ws
  
• GRS XL 951: Ds Comp Lit
  This course description is currently under construction.

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