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Course # (Section)
Title
Day/Times
Instructor
Room
PosTag(s)
Info
AS.230.101 (05)
Introduction to Sociology
MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
Calder, Ryan
Mudd 26
Introduction to Sociology AS.230.101 (05)
Introduces students to basic sociological concepts and perspectives, and applies them to a variety of topics including family, work, and the dynamics of class, gender, and racial/ethnic inequalities in the United States and globally.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
Instructor: Calder, Ryan
Room: Mudd 26
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 4/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.230.101 (04)
Introduction to Sociology
MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
Calder, Ryan
Mudd 26
Introduction to Sociology AS.230.101 (04)
Introduces students to basic sociological concepts and perspectives, and applies them to a variety of topics including family, work, and the dynamics of class, gender, and racial/ethnic inequalities in the United States and globally.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
Instructor: Calder, Ryan
Room: Mudd 26
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 4/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.300 (01)
Racial Inequality, Policy and Politics in the US
TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Weaver, Vesla
Hodson 311
Racial Inequality, Policy and Politics in the US AS.190.300 (01)
While policies were passed to ensure equal opportunity for racially subjugated Americans, the United States witnessed increasing stratification of wealth and income and deepening concentration of poverty, stagnation in closing racial gaps, and new forms of inequality posed by the striking upsurge in contact with the criminal justice system at the bottom of the skills ladder and concentration of wealth at the top. At the same time, the welfare state came under attack and faced challenges posed by an aging population, women entering the labor force, deindustrialization, and international pressures of globalization. Social spending withered in some areas while spending on citizens was increasingly likely to happen through tax expenditures and private means. This course investigates the politics around these developments and competing perspectives in debates over redistributive policies in the United States and their impact on inequality, particularly race and gender inequality. We will examine the contours of inequality and explanations for why it has expanded over the past several decades. We explore why the US is exceptional in both the level of inequality it tolerates and the generosity and types of remedies to alleviate poverty in comparison to its European counterparts and debate the role of race, unions, electoral politics and institutions. We investigate several specific cases of persistent racial inequality – concentrated poverty, segregation, and incarceration. We investigate both how policies have reinforced racial and gender divisions from a top-down perspective as well as examining under what conditions the disadvantaged contest inequality, exploring how political struggle shapes policy from the bottom-up. The last part of the course examines the consequences of inequality and social policy for representation and citizenship and how economic inequality affects political representation and responsiveness of elites to masses.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Instructor: Weaver, Vesla
Room: Hodson 311
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 2/30
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.230.101 (02)
Introduction to Sociology
MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM
Calder, Ryan
Mudd 26
Introduction to Sociology AS.230.101 (02)
Introduces students to basic sociological concepts and perspectives, and applies them to a variety of topics including family, work, and the dynamics of class, gender, and racial/ethnic inequalities in the United States and globally.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM
Instructor: Calder, Ryan
Room: Mudd 26
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.230.101 (03)
Introduction to Sociology
MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM
Calder, Ryan
Mudd 26
Introduction to Sociology AS.230.101 (03)
Introduces students to basic sociological concepts and perspectives, and applies them to a variety of topics including family, work, and the dynamics of class, gender, and racial/ethnic inequalities in the United States and globally.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM
Instructor: Calder, Ryan
Room: Mudd 26
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 2/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.230.101 (07)
Introduction to Sociology
MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM
Calder, Ryan
Mudd 26
Introduction to Sociology AS.230.101 (07)
Introduces students to basic sociological concepts and perspectives, and applies them to a variety of topics including family, work, and the dynamics of class, gender, and racial/ethnic inequalities in the United States and globally.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM
Instructor: Calder, Ryan
Room: Mudd 26
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.230.101 (08)
Introduction to Sociology
MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
Calder, Ryan
Mudd 26
Introduction to Sociology AS.230.101 (08)
Introduces students to basic sociological concepts and perspectives, and applies them to a variety of topics including family, work, and the dynamics of class, gender, and racial/ethnic inequalities in the United States and globally.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
Instructor: Calder, Ryan
Room: Mudd 26
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 4/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.191.303 (01)
Critical Race Theory, Law, and Criminal Justice
MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Schrader, Stuart Laurence
Krieger Laverty
POLI-AP, POLI-PT, INST-AP, INST-PT, SPOL-UL
Critical Race Theory, Law, and Criminal Justice AS.191.303 (01)
In this course, students will gain a foundational understanding of critical race theory, including its genesis in legal theory. The course will examine its relationship and importance to social movements, including through key concepts like intersectionality. The course will also use critical race theory to grapple with law, racial segregation, and the criminal justice system in the United States.
Introduces students to basic sociological concepts and perspectives, and applies them to a variety of topics including family, work, and the dynamics of class, gender, and racial/ethnic inequalities in the United States and globally.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM
Instructor: Calder, Ryan
Room: Mudd 26
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 1/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.230.101 (06)
Introduction to Sociology
MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
Calder, Ryan
Mudd 26
Introduction to Sociology AS.230.101 (06)
Introduces students to basic sociological concepts and perspectives, and applies them to a variety of topics including family, work, and the dynamics of class, gender, and racial/ethnic inequalities in the United States and globally.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
Instructor: Calder, Ryan
Room: Mudd 26
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 3/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.230.150 (01)
Issues in International Development
F 3:00PM - 5:30PM
Agarwala, Rina
Hodson 303
Issues in International Development AS.230.150 (01)
Why do billions of people continue to live in poverty? What obstacles stand in the way of secure and dignified lives for all? Who is most likely to bring about change, what strategies should they follow, and what kinds of institutions should they put in place? This course will introduce the main theoretical perspectives, debates, and themes in the field of international development since the mid-20th century. It has three sections. The first section focuses on debates over the optimal conditions and strategies for generating economic growth and on the relationship between growth, human welfare, and inequality. The second section presents critical assessments of development interventions from various perspectives. The third section considers the role of social movements in shaping development and social change in the 21st century.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: F 3:00PM - 5:30PM
Instructor: Agarwala, Rina
Room: Hodson 303
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 1/25
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.230.202 (01)
Research Methods for the Social Sciences
MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM
Hao, Lingxin
Ames 234
Research Methods for the Social Sciences AS.230.202 (01)
The purpose of this course is to provide a sound introduction to the overall process of research and the specific research methods most frequently used by sociologists and other social scientists. Required for Sociology majors and IS GSCD track students.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM
Instructor: Hao, Lingxin
Room: Ames 234
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.230.306 (01)
Plagues, Power, and Social Control
T 3:00PM - 5:30PM
White, Alexandre Ilani Rein
Shaffer 304
INST-IR, INST-GLOBAL, INST-NWHIST
Plagues, Power, and Social Control AS.230.306 (01)
While developments in biomedicine and health care have led to the eradication, cure and management of many human health problems, disease, illness and health have also been the focus for aggressive social controls and population management. The technologies and practices of disease control and health management have been foundational to some of the most aggressive structures of oppression in recent history such as the Jewish Ghetto, the Concentration Camp, the South African Township and techniques of segregation. This course seeks to explore how epidemics and disease control are linked to larger questions of power, state craft and international dynamics. This course asks how have outbreaks of infectious disease shaped social and political action? How do societies respond to outbreaks and why? What do epidemic moments tell us about global structures of power and the dynamics of control? Drawing on historical cases including plague during the European Renaissance and before, the HIV/AIDS Pandemic and the West African Ebola Outbreak of 2013-2016, this course will introduce students to the history and practices of disease control as well as important theoretical perspectives by which to understand the sociological and historical effects of disease and the responses to them. Students will engage sociological concepts such as biopolitics, social construction of disease and illness and biosecurity and produce a final research paper examining the outcomes and responses to an epidemic event to show mastery of the topics covered in the course.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: T 3:00PM - 5:30PM
Instructor: White, Alexandre Ilani Rein
Room: Shaffer 304
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 1/15
PosTag(s): INST-IR, INST-GLOBAL, INST-NWHIST
AS.230.202 (03)
Research Methods for the Social Sciences
MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM
Hao, Lingxin
Ames 234
Research Methods for the Social Sciences AS.230.202 (03)
The purpose of this course is to provide a sound introduction to the overall process of research and the specific research methods most frequently used by sociologists and other social scientists. Required for Sociology majors and IS GSCD track students.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM
Instructor: Hao, Lingxin
Room: Ames 234
Status: Open
Seats Available: 2/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.230.238 (01)
Beyond the Wall: The Political Economy of the US and Mexico
MW 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Thornton, Christy
Gilman 134
INST-GLOBAL, INST-CP, INST-ECON
Beyond the Wall: The Political Economy of the US and Mexico AS.230.238 (01)
Examining the exchange of culture, people, and commodities between the United States and Mexico since the 19th century, this course asks not just how US practices and policies have shaped Mexican society, but how, in turn, Mexico has shaped the United States. We will examine the social, political, and economic forces that have long pulled these two societies together – and pushed them apart.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Instructor: Thornton, Christy
Room: Gilman 134
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/18
PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL, INST-CP, INST-ECON
AS.230.378 (01)
Refugees, Human Rights, and Sovereignty
TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Naveh Benjamin, Ilil
Krieger 300
INST-IR, INST-GLOBAL, INST-NWHIST
Refugees, Human Rights, and Sovereignty AS.230.378 (01)
What is a refugee? Since World War II, states that have pledged to offer protection to refugees have frequently been drawn instead to the dictates of nationalism and communitarianism, which prioritize concern for their own citizens, rather than to the needs of forced migrants. As a result, even those migrants that have been formally recognized as refugees according to the 1951 UN Refugee Convention have not been assured of protection, and other migrants have been even less assured. In this course, we will locate the reasons for this reality in the legal, political, and historical underpinnings of political asylum. What is the difference between an asylum seeker and a refugee? How has the refugee category been redefined and contested by international bodies since 1951? How are the ambiguities of real-life violence and persecution simplified in asylum adjudication interviews that require clear, factual narratives? What kinds of protections are offered to asylum seekers, whether by UN bodies, NGOs, or host governments, and how have such protections varied geographically and historically? Finally, what protections, if any, are afforded to those migrants who are fleeing not persecution but rather “merely” endemic poverty or climate-induced displacement? The course draws on literature from sociology, history, anthropology, and international refugee law in order to understand the capacity (or lack thereof) of human rights discourses and declarations to contravene state sovereignty in the name of protecting the rightless.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Instructor: Naveh Benjamin, Ilil
Room: Krieger 300
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/20
PosTag(s): INST-IR, INST-GLOBAL, INST-NWHIST
AS.230.393 (01)
Global Health and Human Rights
TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Naveh Benjamin, Ilil
Gilman 377
INST-IR
Global Health and Human Rights AS.230.393 (01)
Is access to healthcare a fundamental human right? If so, then which global actors are obligated to provide healthcare to whom, and for how long? How do meanings of health and illness vary across time and place? And finally, how are human rights principles translated into frontline practice in order to promote well-being? This course takes a critical interdisciplinary approach to these questions through a series of global case studies ranging from humanitarian aid in post-tsunami Sri Lanka to anti-FGM (female genital mutilation) campaigns in Ghana. How do international NGOs, UN bodies, and governments collaborate (or compete) to distribute healthcare in places beset by dire resource shortages? Do human rights principles carry legal weight across borders, and if so, could access to healthcare services and essential medicines be litigated in order to compel governments to provide it? And finally, what cultural assumptions do human rights discourses carry with them, and what happens if rights-based approaches are poorly received by recipient populations? Moving beyond the basic principle of healthcare as a human right, this course aims to bring this idea’s history and politics into focus by offering an in-depth exploration of its ethics and implementation.
The Political Economy of Drugs and Drug Wars AS.230.397 (01)
In the United States, we spend more than $100 billion annually on illegal drugs—and the government spends more than $50 billion a year to combat their sale and use. These statistics raise important and complicated social questions. This course will examine the production, sale, use, and control of illegal drugs from a historical and sociological perspective. We will have three objectives: to understand the social construction of drug use and illegality in the United States and other rich countries; to uncover the political and economic consequences of drug trafficking in those countries that produce drugs, particularly in Latin America; and to examine the political economy of drug control through the so-called War on Drugs, both domestically and internationally.
Sociological perspectives on contemporary family life, including marriage and divorce, cohabitation, single parenthood, same sex partnerships, children’s wellbeing, balancing work and family responsibilities, domestic violence, and government policy toward families.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Instructor: Cherlin, Andrew J
Room: Mattin Center 162
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.230.337 (01)
Global Crises: Past and Present
Th 3:00PM - 5:30PM
Silver, Beverly Judith
Shaffer 300
INST-IR, INST-GLOBAL, INST-ECON
Global Crises: Past and Present AS.230.337 (01)
This course will compare the current global crisis with previous major crises of historical capitalism through a combination of theoretical and historical readings. Throughout, we will ask: What can a study of past crises tell us about the nature and future trajectory of the current global crisis? Special emphasis will be placed on (1) “the late-nineteenth century great depression”, (2) the Great Depression of the 1930s, and (3) the period of crisis and stagflation in the 1970s. We will be particularly concerned to understand the differential social and geopolitical impact of the crises. Which social classes bore the brunt of the disruptions in economic activity in each crisis? Which geographical areas or geopolitical groupings lost out (or benefited) from the crisis? How have environmental and ecological challenges resurfaced in each crisis including today?
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: Th 3:00PM - 5:30PM
Instructor: Silver, Beverly Judith
Room: Shaffer 300
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/15
PosTag(s): INST-IR, INST-GLOBAL, INST-ECON
AS.230.341 (03)
Sociology of Health and Illness
M 3:00PM - 4:50PM, W 4:00PM - 4:50PM
Agree, Emily
Gilman 50
PHIL-BIOETH, MSCH-HUM, SPOL-UL
Sociology of Health and Illness AS.230.341 (03)
This course introduces students to core concepts that define the sociological approach to health, illness and health care. Topics include: health disparities, social context of health and illness, and the Sociology of Medicine.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: M 3:00PM - 4:50PM, W 4:00PM - 4:50PM
Instructor: Agree, Emily
Room: Gilman 50
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/15
PosTag(s): PHIL-BIOETH, MSCH-HUM, SPOL-UL
AS.230.322 (01)
Quantitative Research Practicum
TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Burdick-Will, Julia
Ames 218
Quantitative Research Practicum AS.230.322 (01)
This course provides “hands on” research experience applying sociological research tools and a sociological perspective to problems of substance. Quantitative methods will be emphasized, as applied to census data, survey data and/or archival data. Students will design and carry out a research project and write a research report. Juniors and seniors only. Sophomores require instructor's permission. Recommended Course Background: AS.230.205, AS.230.202
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Instructor: Burdick-Will, Julia
Room: Ames 218
Status: Open
Seats Available: 3/10
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.230.440 (01)
Port Cities and Historical Capitalism in Maritime Asia
M 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Kuo, Huei-Ying
Shriver Hall 104
INST-IR, INST-GLOBAL, INST-NWHIST
Port Cities and Historical Capitalism in Maritime Asia AS.230.440 (01)
The goal of the seminar is to examine the prospects and limits of understanding the incorporation of Asia in the capitalist world-system from the prism of oceanic connections. The theoretical thrust of this course is to develop but also to adapt Janet Abu-Lughod emphasis on the connections across port cities and littoral in the Afro-Eurasian continents before the long sixteenth century in her Before European Hegemony. But instead of looking at a port city as its adjacent hinterland polity’s gateway to global trade in the premodern era, the course examines the multifarious coast-hinterland relationships. The readings are organized by a chronological order, which begins with the historical maritime silk road between the third and thirteenth centuries, and will be followed by Asian port cities in the European age of empire and postwar American-led Cold War Structure, as well as the present-day Chinese New Silk Road Diplomacy. Students are expected to select an issue of regional tensions and to analyze its historical root.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: M 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Kuo, Huei-Ying
Room: Shriver Hall 104
Status: Open
Seats Available: 6/15
PosTag(s): INST-IR, INST-GLOBAL, INST-NWHIST
AS.230.244 (01)
Race and Ethnicity in American Society
TTh 4:30PM - 5:45PM
Greif, Meredith
Gilman 413
INST-AP
Race and Ethnicity in American Society AS.230.244 (01)
Race and ethnicity have played a prominent role in American society and continue to do so, as demonstrated by interracial and interethnic gaps in economic and educational achievement, residence, political power, family structure, crime, and health. Using a sociological framework, we will explore the historical significance of race and its development as a social construction, assess the causes and consequences of intergroup inequalities and explore potential solutions.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 4:30PM - 5:45PM
Instructor: Greif, Meredith
Room: Gilman 413
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/18
PosTag(s): INST-AP
AS.230.341 (04)
Sociology of Health and Illness
M 3:00PM - 4:50PM, W 4:00PM - 4:50PM
Agree, Emily
Gilman 50
PHIL-BIOETH, MSCH-HUM, SPOL-UL
Sociology of Health and Illness AS.230.341 (04)
This course introduces students to core concepts that define the sociological approach to health, illness and health care. Topics include: health disparities, social context of health and illness, and the Sociology of Medicine.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: M 3:00PM - 4:50PM, W 4:00PM - 4:50PM
Instructor: Agree, Emily
Room: Gilman 50
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/15
PosTag(s): PHIL-BIOETH, MSCH-HUM, SPOL-UL
AS.230.341 (02)
Sociology of Health and Illness
M 3:00PM - 4:50PM, W 3:00PM - 3:50PM
Agree, Emily
Gilman 50
PHIL-BIOETH, MSCH-HUM, SPOL-UL
Sociology of Health and Illness AS.230.341 (02)
This course introduces students to core concepts that define the sociological approach to health, illness and health care. Topics include: health disparities, social context of health and illness, and the Sociology of Medicine.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: M 3:00PM - 4:50PM, W 3:00PM - 3:50PM
Instructor: Agree, Emily
Room: Gilman 50
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/15
PosTag(s): PHIL-BIOETH, MSCH-HUM, SPOL-UL
AS.230.352 (01)
Chinese Diaspora: Networks and Identity
TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Kuo, Huei-Ying
Bloomberg 178
INST-GLOBAL, INST-NWHIST, INST-CP
Chinese Diaspora: Networks and Identity AS.230.352 (01)
This course combines lecture and class discussion. It examines the history and historiography of Chinese overseas migration. Major issues include overseas Chinese as “merchants without empire,” Chinese exclusion acts in the age of mass migration, the “Chinese question” in postcolonial Southeast Asia, as well as the making and unmaking of Chinese identity in the current wave of globalization.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Instructor: Kuo, Huei-Ying
Room: Bloomberg 178
Status: Open
Seats Available: 4/18
PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL, INST-NWHIST, INST-CP
AS.230.216 (01)
Disability and Society
W 3:00PM - 5:30PM
Agree, Emily
Hodson 301
Disability and Society AS.230.216 (01)
Objectives of this course are to achieve an understanding of the social context of disability from the population level to the individual disability experience. Topics will include social versus medical models of disability; the spectrum of ability; the history of disability; civil rights perspectives; life course and aging aspects of disability; and the role of the environment. Attention will be paid both to theoretical understandings of disability and the role of policies.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: W 3:00PM - 5:30PM
Instructor: Agree, Emily
Room: Hodson 301
Status: Open
Seats Available: 2/20
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.230.357 (01)
Baltimore and Beyond
T 4:00PM - 6:30PM
Deluca, Stefanie
Abel Wolman House 100
SPOL-UL
Baltimore and Beyond AS.230.357 (01)
This course uses the city of Baltimore as a lens through which to explore issues of urban inequality. We will focus on Baltimore's history of racial segregation and concentrated poverty, and its effect on the social and economic well-being of the city and its residents, with attention to education, employment, health and crime. Students will learn how to employ Census data, GIS approaches, and sociological research to inform questions about population change, inequality and the distribution of resources across the city and metropolitan region. Students will also work on one or more policy relevant studies based in Baltimore, including: a project on abandoned and vacant housing, a desegregation intervention, and a longitudinal study of inner city youth. Finally, students will become familiar with Baltimore City's programs and policy approaches to addressing the city's most pressing problems, and will design innovative and effective and innovative solutions as part of their course assignments. Enrollment restricted to Social Policy minors only.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: T 4:00PM - 6:30PM
Instructor: Deluca, Stefanie
Room: Abel Wolman House 100
Status: Open
Seats Available: 3/15
PosTag(s): SPOL-UL
AS.230.341 (01)
Sociology of Health and Illness
M 3:00PM - 4:50PM, W 3:00PM - 3:50PM
Agree, Emily
Gilman 50
PHIL-BIOETH, MSCH-HUM, SPOL-UL
Sociology of Health and Illness AS.230.341 (01)
This course introduces students to core concepts that define the sociological approach to health, illness and health care. Topics include: health disparities, social context of health and illness, and the Sociology of Medicine.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: M 3:00PM - 4:50PM, W 3:00PM - 3:50PM
Instructor: Agree, Emily
Room: Gilman 50
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/15
PosTag(s): PHIL-BIOETH, MSCH-HUM, SPOL-UL
AS.230.335 (01)
Medical Humanitarianism
MW 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Naveh Benjamin, Ilil
Gilman 377
INST-IR, MSCH-HUM
Medical Humanitarianism AS.230.335 (01)
Humanitarian organizations play life-preserving roles in global conflicts, and have front-row views of disasters ranging from the 2010 Haiti earthquake to the 2011 Fukushima tsunami in Japan. Yet even while they provide vital assistance to millions of people in crisis, such organizations are beset by important paradoxes that hinder their capacity to create sustainable interventions. They work to fill long-lasting needs, but are prone to moving quickly from one site to the next in search of the latest emergency. They strive to be apolitical, yet are invariably influenced by the geopolitical agendas of global powers. How do such contradictions arise, and what is their impact upon millions of aid recipients around the world? Drawing on case studies from South Sudan to Haiti, this course addresses these contradictions by exploring how and why medical aid organizations attempt, and sometimes fail, to reconcile short-term goals, such as immediate life-saving, with long-term missions, such as public health programs and conflict resolution initiatives.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Instructor: Naveh Benjamin, Ilil
Room: Gilman 377
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/25
PosTag(s): INST-IR, MSCH-HUM
AS.360.401 (01)
Social Policy Seminar
M 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Lieberman, Robert C
Maryland 201
Social Policy Seminar AS.360.401 (01)
This course is designed for students who have completed either the Baltimore intensive semester of the Social Policy Minor. The students will make presentations and pursue joint projects based on what they have learned during the intensive semesters concerning key social policy issues.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: M 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Lieberman, Robert C
Room: Maryland 201
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/10
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.230.202 (02)
Research Methods for the Social Sciences
MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM
Hao, Lingxin
Ames 234
Research Methods for the Social Sciences AS.230.202 (02)
The purpose of this course is to provide a sound introduction to the overall process of research and the specific research methods most frequently used by sociologists and other social scientists. Required for Sociology majors and IS GSCD track students.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM
Instructor: Hao, Lingxin
Room: Ames 234
Status: Open
Seats Available: 2/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.230.370 (01)
Housing and Homelessness in the United States
TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Greif, Meredith
Gilman 134
INST-AP, SPOL-UL
Housing and Homelessness in the United States AS.230.370 (01)
This course will examine the role of housing, or the absence thereof, in shaping quality of life. It will explore the consequences of the places in which we live and how we are housed. Consideration will be given to overcrowding, affordability, accessibility, and past and existing housing policies and their influence on society. Special attention will be given to the problem of homelessness.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Instructor: Greif, Meredith
Room: Gilman 134
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 1/18
PosTag(s): INST-AP, SPOL-UL
AS.230.367 (01)
Islamic Finance
M 3:00PM - 5:30PM
Calder, Ryan
Gilman 400
INST-ECON, ISLM-ISLMST
Islamic Finance AS.230.367 (01)
Today, Islamic finance is a global industry comprising nearly $2 trillion in assets, with hubs from Kuala Lumpur to Dubai to London. But half a century ago, nothing called “Islamic finance” existed. So where did Islamic finance come from? Why is it growing so fast? And what does it mean for finance to be Islamic? We discuss the ban on riba in the Quran and hadith, finance in early and medieval Islamic societies, petrodollars and the birth of Islamic banking in the 1970s, the rise of Islamic capital markets since 2000, contemporary shariah-compliant financial structures, and the constitution of piety through financial practice.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: M 3:00PM - 5:30PM
Instructor: Calder, Ryan
Room: Gilman 400
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/15
PosTag(s): INST-ECON, ISLM-ISLMST
AS.310.230 (01)
Chinese Politics and Society
Th 4:00PM - 6:30PM
He, Gaochao
Gilman 313
INST-CP, INST-GLOBAL, INST-NWHIST
Chinese Politics and Society AS.310.230 (01)
This introductory course will familiarize students with the major dynamics of political and social change in contemporary China since 1949. The course will be divided chronologically into four main topics: 1. The contested processes of nation-state making in modern China before 1949; 2. The making of the socialist system during the Mao Years and its dismantling since 1978; 3. The Reform Era transformation to a market economy with Chinese characteristics; 4. The dynamic relationships among the state, market and society since the new millennium. Students will explore how scholars have explained major political and social changes with reference to individual and collective rationalities, specific organizational and institutional arrangements, and specific strategic and cultural mechanisms of Chinese political and social habits.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: Th 4:00PM - 6:30PM
Instructor: He, Gaochao
Room: Gilman 313
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/15
PosTag(s): INST-CP, INST-GLOBAL, INST-NWHIST
AS.310.340 (01)
Development and Social Change in Rural China
W 3:00PM - 5:30PM
He, Gaochao
Krieger 180
INST-GLOBAL, INST-NWHIST, INST-CP
Development and Social Change in Rural China AS.310.340 (01)
This course will survey the major issues of development and social change in rural China since 1950s. These issues will be addressed in chronological order. They include land ownership and land grabbing, organization of rural economic, political, and social life, rural elections and village governance, development strategies, urban-rural relationship in resource allocation, rural modernization strategies in regard to irrigation, clean drinking water, electricity supply, hard paved road, education and rural medical service, women’s rights and family life, rural consumption, and etc. This course will prepare students, both empirically and analytically, to understand what happened in rural China from 1949 to the present, and how we can engage in policy and theoretical discussions based on what we learn.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: W 3:00PM - 5:30PM
Instructor: He, Gaochao
Room: Krieger 180
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 2/15
PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL, INST-NWHIST, INST-CP
AS.362.315 (01)
Black Against Empire
MW 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Schrader, Stuart Laurence
Krieger Laverty
INST-GLOBAL, INST-AP, INST-CP
Black Against Empire AS.362.315 (01)
This course will examine the confrontation of Black social movements with imperialism in the twentieth century. How, we will ask, have key Black internationalist thinkers conceptualized and defined diaspora, capitalism, imperialism, war, and the global? What have been the effects of war and repression, as well as economic growth and globalization, on Black internationalism? Readings may include texts by W.E.B. Du Bois, Angela Y. Davis, Frantz Fanon, Ashley Farmer, Claudia Jones, Robin D.G. Kelley, Claude McKay, Huey P. Newton, Walter Rodney, Malcolm X, etc. Students will complete a research paper on a topic of their own choosing related to Black internationalism in the twentieth century.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Instructor: Schrader, Stuart Laurence
Room: Krieger Laverty
Status: Open
Seats Available: 10/18
PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL, INST-AP, INST-CP
AS.230.323 (01)
Qualitative Research Practicum
Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Amen Strayhorn, Kali-ahset
Mattin Center 162
CSC-CE
Qualitative Research Practicum AS.230.323 (01)
This course provides "hands on" research experience applying sociological research tools and a sociological perspective to problems of substance. Qualitative observational and/or interviewing methods will be emphasized. Students will design and carry out a research project and write a research report. This course fulfills the "research practicum" requirement for the Sociology major.
