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Issues in International Development AS.230.150 (02)
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.
Race and Ethnic Politics in the United States AS.190.437 (01)
Race has been and continues to be centrally important to American political life and development. In this course, we will engage with the major debates around racial politics in the United States, with a substantial focus on how policies and practices of citizenship, immigration law, social provision, and criminal justice policy shaped and continue to shape racial formation, group-based identities, and group position; debates around the content and meaning of political representation and the responsiveness of the political system to American minority groups; debates about how racial prejudice has shifted and its importance in understanding American political behavior; the prospects for contestation or coalitions among groups; the “struggle with difference” within groups as they deal with the interplay of race and class, citizenship status, and issues that disproportionately affect a subset of their members; and debates about how new groups and issues are reshaping the meaning and practice of race in the United States.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Weaver, Vesla
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 6/18
PosTag(s): INST-AP
AS.230.154 (01)
Freshman Seminar: Gender, Health and Aging
TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Agree, Emily
Freshman Seminar: Gender, Health and Aging AS.230.154 (01)
In this course students will develop an understanding of the ways in which gender structures health and well being through adulthood and later life. The experience of sexual minorities and the ntersection of gender with class and ethnicity will also be discussed. Students will be expected to participate actively and lead discussions on specific topics.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Instructor: Agree, Emily
Room:
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.230.175 (01)
Chinese Revolutions
TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Kuo, Huei-Ying
INST-NWHIST, INST-CP, INST-GLOBAL
Chinese Revolutions AS.230.175 (01)
This course introduces the origins, operation and impacts of five major revolutions in modern China between 1850 and 1950. These include the Taiping Rebellion, the republican revolutions, federalist and southern automatic movements, labor strikes as well as peasant rebellions. It draws on the existing historiography that examines China’s transition from an empire to a republic, impacts of western and Japanese influences to China, as well as the continuity and change of Chinese social organizations. Cross list with International Studies and East Asian Studies. Fulfills IS History requirement.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Instructor: Kuo, Huei-Ying
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 7/18
PosTag(s): INST-NWHIST, INST-CP, INST-GLOBAL
AS.230.205 (01)
Introduction to Social Statistics
MW 1:30PM - 2:45PM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM
Reese, Michael Joseph, Jr.
Introduction to Social Statistics AS.230.205 (01)
This course will introduce students to the application of statistical techniques commonly used in sociological analysis. Topics include measures of central tendency and dispersion, probability theory, confidence intervals, chi-square, anova, and regression analysis. Hands-on computer experience with statistical software and analysis of data from various fields of social research. Special Note: Required for IS GSCD track students.
Credits: 4.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 1:30PM - 2:45PM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM
Instructor: Reese, Michael Joseph, Jr.
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 1/18
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.230.205 (02)
Introduction to Social Statistics
MW 1:30PM - 2:45PM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
Reese, Michael Joseph, Jr.
Introduction to Social Statistics AS.230.205 (02)
This course will introduce students to the application of statistical techniques commonly used in sociological analysis. Topics include measures of central tendency and dispersion, probability theory, confidence intervals, chi-square, anova, and regression analysis. Hands-on computer experience with statistical software and analysis of data from various fields of social research. Special Note: Required for IS GSCD track students.
Credits: 4.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 1:30PM - 2:45PM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
Instructor: Reese, Michael Joseph, Jr.
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 1/18
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.230.213 (01)
Social Theory
MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Schrader, Stuart Laurence
INST-PT, GECS-SOCSCI
Social Theory AS.230.213 (01)
This course will focus on four classical theorists whose ideas have greatly influenced the ways we study society: Karl Marx, Max Weber, Emile Durkheim, and W. E. B. Du Bois. The course is devoted to understanding how each theorist understood the origin, structure, and historical dynamics of modern societies. In addition to comparing their theories, we will use them to analyze current social issues, including those involving social inequality, conflict, cohesion, and change.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Instructor: Schrader, Stuart Laurence
Room:
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/30
PosTag(s): INST-PT, GECS-SOCSCI
AS.230.229 (01)
Capitalism, Development, and Resistance in South Korea
TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Kang, Minhyoung
INST-CP, INST-GLOBAL, INST-ECON
Capitalism, Development, and Resistance in South Korea AS.230.229 (01)
This course examines the origins, processes, and consequences of economic development in South Korea. Attention will be paid to the rise of big business, strong state, and contentious society in the post-1945 period. The first part of the course focuses on the academic debates on Korea's economic miracle and introduces theories of late development and state formation. The second part of the course explores labor unrest and social conflicts that have emerged in response to capitalist development in twentieth and twenty-first century Korea.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Instructor: Kang, Minhyoung
Room:
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/12
PosTag(s): INST-CP, INST-GLOBAL, INST-ECON
AS.230.244 (01)
Race and Ethnicity in American Society
TTh 4:30PM - 5:45PM
Greif, Meredith
INST-AP, SPOL-UL
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:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 1/18
PosTag(s): INST-AP, SPOL-UL
AS.230.304 (01)
(Making Space For) Black Thought
W 3:00PM - 5:30PM
White, Alexandre Ilani Rein
INST-PT
(Making Space For) Black Thought AS.230.304 (01)
How do we think about the power relations at work in the scholarship we read and in the important texts we consider essential to our educational experience? This course will critically investigate the role that concepts of race and racism have played in formulating dominant perceptions of who can be the producers of knowledge and what constitutes authoritative knowledge itself. We will consider how and why thinkers and scholarship produced outside of Europe and North America are too often ignored for their scholarly contributions and the dynamics that lead to this situation. We will also explore how and why new and important perspectives emerge from engaging and centering voices from beyond traditional canonical works. With a particular focus on the forms of knowledge arising from European Enlightenment approaches to concepts of thought reason and objective knowledge, this course will critically engage students with a wide range of thinkers such asGWF Hegel, W.E.B. Du Bois, Angela Davis, Ralph Trouillot, Sadiya Hartman, Walter Rodney, Derek Walcott, Sylvia Wynter and Frantz Fanon. This course will focus largely on thinkers engaging within the Black Atlantic and black diaspora traditions to question how we might consider voices and thought from beyond Eurocentric positions in our own scholarly practice.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: W 3:00PM - 5:30PM
Instructor: White, Alexandre Ilani Rein
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 3/15
PosTag(s): INST-PT
AS.230.312 (01)
Education & Society
TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Burdick-Will, Julia
Education & Society AS.230.312 (01)
This course analyzes educational systems as social institutions and organizations. It gives particular attention to the often taken-for-granted ways that we structure learning in schools and their consequences for social inequality. To these ends, the course will examine classical institutional and organizational theory in sociology and evaluate these theories in their application to historical process of educational formation and the contemporary organization of K-12 schooling in the US.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Instructor: Burdick-Will, Julia
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 1/19
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.230.341 (01)
Sociology of Health and Illness
M 3:00PM - 4:50PM, W 3:00PM - 3:50PM
Agree, Emily
PHIL-BIOETH, SPOL-UL, MSCH-HUM
Sociology of Health and Illness AS.230.341 (01)
This course introduces students to medical sociology, which is the application of the sociological perspective to health and health care. Major topics include stress, social epidemiology, and the social organization of health care.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: M 3:00PM - 4:50PM, W 3:00PM - 3:50PM
Instructor: Agree, Emily
Room:
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/16
PosTag(s): PHIL-BIOETH, SPOL-UL, MSCH-HUM
AS.230.318 (01)
State and Society in Modern India
M 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Agarwala, Rina
INST-CP, INST-GLOBAL
State and Society in Modern India AS.230.318 (01)
This course examines the complex, at times conflicting, relationship that has emerged between Indian seats of power from above and Indian expressions of society from below. Attention will be placed on the period between 1947 to the present.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: M 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Agarwala, Rina
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 6/10
PosTag(s): INST-CP, INST-GLOBAL
AS.230.335 (01)
Medical Humanitarianism
MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Naveh Benjamin, Ilil
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 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Instructor: Naveh Benjamin, Ilil
Room:
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/18
PosTag(s): INST-IR, MSCH-HUM
AS.230.369 (01)
Sociology in Economic Life
TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Kuo, Huei-Ying
INST-ECON, INST-PT
Sociology in Economic Life AS.230.369 (01)
This course discusses how geopolitics, technology as well as social differentiation (such as race, class and gender) shape the structure of economic actions. Special attention will be paid to patterns of state-business relationship, labor processes, migrant economy, globalization and international division of labor.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Instructor: Kuo, Huei-Ying
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 3/18
PosTag(s): INST-ECON, INST-PT
AS.230.341 (02)
Sociology of Health and Illness
M 3:00PM - 4:50PM, W 3:00PM - 3:50PM
Agree, Emily
PHIL-BIOETH, SPOL-UL, MSCH-HUM
Sociology of Health and Illness AS.230.341 (02)
This course introduces students to medical sociology, which is the application of the sociological perspective to health and health care. Major topics include stress, social epidemiology, and the social organization of health care.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: M 3:00PM - 4:50PM, W 3:00PM - 3:50PM
Instructor: Agree, Emily
Room:
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/16
PosTag(s): PHIL-BIOETH, SPOL-UL, MSCH-HUM
AS.230.378 (01)
Refugees, Human Rights, and Sovereignty
TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Naveh Benjamin, Ilil
INST-IR, INST-GLOBAL
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:
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/18
PosTag(s): INST-IR, INST-GLOBAL
AS.230.313 (01)
Space, Place, Poverty & Race: Sociological Perspectives on Neighborhoods & Public Housing
T 3:00PM - 5:30PM
Deluca, Stefanie
Space, Place, Poverty & Race: Sociological Perspectives on Neighborhoods & Public Housing AS.230.313 (01)
Is a neighborhood just a grouping of individuals living in the same place, or do neighborhoods have collective meanings and impacts on children and families? We will capitalize on research methodologies used to define and describe neighborhoods and their effects on economic and educational outcomes. These include case studies, census data, surveys, quasi/experimental data. Focus is on how research measures neighborhood effects and incorporates community level processes into models of social causation (e.g., social capital/control, community efficacy, civic engagement). Also examined: patterns in residential mobility, segregation, and preferences within black and white populations; development of housing policy in the U.S.; programs to determine how neighborhoods affect issues of social importance. Statistics and public policy background is helpful but not required.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: T 3:00PM - 5:30PM
Instructor: Deluca, Stefanie
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 4/18
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.230.335 (02)
Medical Humanitarianism
MW 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Naveh Benjamin, Ilil
INST-IR, MSCH-HUM
Medical Humanitarianism AS.230.335 (02)
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 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Instructor: Naveh Benjamin, Ilil
Room:
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/18
PosTag(s): INST-IR, MSCH-HUM
AS.230.370 (01)
Housing and Homelessness in the United States
TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Greif, Meredith
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:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 3/18
PosTag(s): INST-AP, SPOL-UL
AS.230.324 (01)
Gender and International Development
F 3:00PM - 5:30PM
Agarwala, Rina
INST-CP, INST-IR
Gender and International Development AS.230.324 (01)
This course employs a comparative perspective to examine the gendered impact of international development experiences and policies. Students will discuss the historical evolution of how the concept of gender has been constructed, conceptualized, and integrated into international development theory and practice. The course will also examine how greater international development. In particular, we will examine structural theories of poverty reduction, individual theories of power and processes of stratification at the household and family level. Specific issue areas will include the globalization, class and work political participation and social movements. Cross-listed with International Studies (CP, IR). Fulfills Economics requirement for IS GSCD track students only.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: F 3:00PM - 5:30PM
Instructor: Agarwala, Rina
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 2/15
PosTag(s): INST-CP, INST-IR
AS.230.379 (01)
Undergraduate Research Seminar
Andreas, Joel
Undergraduate Research Seminar AS.230.379 (01)
Seminar for Sociology students writing senior honor theses and conducting pre-approved independent research projects. Juniors and Seniors Sociology majors only. Permission of instructor.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times:
Instructor: Andreas, Joel
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 6/8
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.230.348 (01)
Society in the Anthropocene
W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Levien, Michael
ENVS-MAJOR, ENVS-MINOR, INST-GLOBAL, INST-CP
Society in the Anthropocene AS.230.348 (01)
If the progressive domination of nature has been the overriding ideology of modern societies, extreme weather events and now the Covid-19 pandemic have underscored the tenuousness of that domination. The pandemic has quickly put extreme stress on a variety of social institutions, realizing dystopian scenarios previously imagined by science fiction writers and apocalyptic climate change thinkers. While addressing the unfolding Covid-19 crisis, this course will place it within a broader set of concerns around climate change and what some call the Anthropocene—the era in which human activity has become the dominant influence on the Earth’s climate and environment. We will survey a range of social scientific literature—combined with journalistic and popular sources—on the social origins of ‘natural’ disasters; the ways in which social phenomenon—institutions, ideologies, poverty, inequality, racism, nationalism, anomie and politics—affect and are affected by such disasters; and the different ways in which various social factors—states, investors, social movements and sub-cultures—prepare for the coming crises of the 21st century.
Global Social Change and Development Practicum AS.230.325 (01)
This course provides "hands on" research experience in the field of global social change and development.
The course fulfills the "research practicum" requirement for Sociology majors and is required for the GSCD track.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: T 3:00PM - 5:30PM
Instructor: Silver, Beverly Judith
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 3/12
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.230.341 (03)
Sociology of Health and Illness
M 3:00PM - 4:50PM, W 4:00PM - 4:50PM
Agree, Emily
PHIL-BIOETH, SPOL-UL, MSCH-HUM
Sociology of Health and Illness AS.230.341 (03)
This course introduces students to medical sociology, which is the application of the sociological perspective to health and health care. Major topics include stress, social epidemiology, and the social organization of health care.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: M 3:00PM - 4:50PM, W 4:00PM - 4:50PM
Instructor: Agree, Emily
Room:
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/17
PosTag(s): PHIL-BIOETH, SPOL-UL, MSCH-HUM
AS.230.396 (01)
Politics and Society
Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Andreas, Joel
INST-PT, INST-CP
Politics and Society AS.230.396 (01)
This seminar surveys key problems of political sociology including the rise of the modern state, the origins and nature of liberal democracy, sources of authority, the relationship between political and economic power, the nation-state and nationalism, states and war, ideology and political contention, collective identity, social movements, and social revolutions. Fulfills Comparative Politics for International Studies.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Andreas, Joel
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 13/15
PosTag(s): INST-PT, INST-CP
AS.360.247 (01)
Introduction to Social Policy: Baltimore and Beyond
Th 10:30AM - 11:45AM, T 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Deluca, Stefanie, Morgan, Barbara Anne, Schlozman, Daniel
Introduction to Social Policy: Baltimore and Beyond AS.360.247 (01)
This course will introduce students to basic concepts in economics, political science and sociology relevant to the study of social problems and the programs designed to remedy them. It will address the many inequalities in access to education and health care, unequal treatment in the criminal justice system, disparities in income and wealth, and differential access to political power. The focus will be on designing effective policies at the national and local level to address these pressing issues. This course is open to all students, but will be required for the new Social Policy Minor. The course is also recommended for students who are interested in law school, medical school, programs in public health, and graduate school in related social science fields. This course does not count as one of the required courses for the Economics major or minor, but it is required for the Social Policy Minor. Cross list with Sociology, Economics and Political Science. Freshman, Sophomore and Juniors only.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: Th 10:30AM - 11:45AM, T 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Instructor: Deluca, Stefanie, Morgan, Barbara Anne, Schlozman, Daniel
Room:
Status: Reserved Open
Seats Available: 4/25
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.230.341 (04)
Sociology of Health and Illness
M 3:00PM - 4:50PM, W 4:00PM - 4:50PM
Agree, Emily
PHIL-BIOETH, SPOL-UL, MSCH-HUM
Sociology of Health and Illness AS.230.341 (04)
This course introduces students to medical sociology, which is the application of the sociological perspective to health and health care. Major topics include stress, social epidemiology, and the social organization of health care.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: M 3:00PM - 4:50PM, W 4:00PM - 4:50PM
Instructor: Agree, Emily
Room:
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/17
PosTag(s): PHIL-BIOETH, SPOL-UL, MSCH-HUM
AS.360.247 (02)
Introduction to Social Policy: Baltimore and Beyond
Th 10:30AM - 11:45AM, T 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Deluca, Stefanie, Morgan, Barbara Anne, Schlozman, Daniel
Introduction to Social Policy: Baltimore and Beyond AS.360.247 (02)
This course will introduce students to basic concepts in economics, political science and sociology relevant to the study of social problems and the programs designed to remedy them. It will address the many inequalities in access to education and health care, unequal treatment in the criminal justice system, disparities in income and wealth, and differential access to political power. The focus will be on designing effective policies at the national and local level to address these pressing issues. This course is open to all students, but will be required for the new Social Policy Minor. The course is also recommended for students who are interested in law school, medical school, programs in public health, and graduate school in related social science fields. This course does not count as one of the required courses for the Economics major or minor, but it is required for the Social Policy Minor. Cross list with Sociology, Economics and Political Science. Freshman, Sophomore and Juniors only.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: Th 10:30AM - 11:45AM, T 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Instructor: Deluca, Stefanie, Morgan, Barbara Anne, Schlozman, Daniel
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 2/25
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.360.247 (03)
Introduction to Social Policy: Baltimore and Beyond
Th 10:30AM - 11:45AM, T 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Deluca, Stefanie, Morgan, Barbara Anne, Schlozman, Daniel
Introduction to Social Policy: Baltimore and Beyond AS.360.247 (03)
This course will introduce students to basic concepts in economics, political science and sociology relevant to the study of social problems and the programs designed to remedy them. It will address the many inequalities in access to education and health care, unequal treatment in the criminal justice system, disparities in income and wealth, and differential access to political power. The focus will be on designing effective policies at the national and local level to address these pressing issues. This course is open to all students, but will be required for the new Social Policy Minor. The course is also recommended for students who are interested in law school, medical school, programs in public health, and graduate school in related social science fields. This course does not count as one of the required courses for the Economics major or minor, but it is required for the Social Policy Minor. Cross list with Sociology, Economics and Political Science. Freshman, Sophomore and Juniors only.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: Th 10:30AM - 11:45AM, T 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Instructor: Deluca, Stefanie, Morgan, Barbara Anne, Schlozman, Daniel
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 3/25
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.360.401 (01)
Social Policy Seminar
TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
Cherlin, Andrew J
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: TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
Instructor: Cherlin, Andrew J
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 2/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.362.115 (01)
Introduction to Police and Prisons
MW 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Schrader, Stuart Laurence
INST-CP, INST-AP
Introduction to Police and Prisons AS.362.115 (01)
This introductory course will examine policing and prisons in the United States and beyond, with a focus on racial inequality. It will consist of three parts. First, we will define key concepts in police and prison studies. Then, we will explore the contemporary state of prisons and policing in the United States and look at debates around the rise of “mass incarceration” and aggressive forms of policing in the final third of the 20th century. Third, we will explore policing and prison in other parts of the globe in the contemporary moment, highlighting similarities and differences from the U.S. case. What can studying the instruments of social control in other societies reveal about our own? Students will develop an understanding of major trends, keywords, and debates in the literature on policing and prisons, with particular reference to race and racism.
