Courses

• GRS SO 852: Contemporary Debates in Sexualities Research
  Engages debates about sexual identities, practices, and communities, conceptualizing sexuality as both a social construct and an institution. Students consider how sexualities operate across social contexts, their effects on systems of inequalities, and their intersections with race, class, and gender.
• 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 strategies for the completion of theses, clear presentation of research findings, providing critical feedback to colleagues, and appropriate types of scholarly publications.
• GRS SO 952: Dissertation Workshop
  Seminar discussions of strategies for the completion of theses, clear presentation of research findings, providing critical feedback to colleagues, and appropriate types of scholarly publications.
• GRS WS 801: Theories and Methods in Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies
  Exploring the variety of theories and methods in the interdisciplinary fields of women's, gender, and sexuality studies, this seminar is required for the WGS Graduate Certificate. Readings from the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences address questions of identity and epistemology.

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