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FYS: Hot Topics in Education
AS.001.133 (01)

As a public good, public schooling is often the focus of attempts at purposeful change. Politicians, for example, make policies for fixing schools (public) that never would be entertained for fixing families (private). Parents also make demands of schools, as do a host of other interested parties. Together these stakeholders make up part of the external environment to which schools adapt. But the institutional agents of schooling have interests too—e.g., teachers’ unions, associations of school administrators, the faculty of schools of education—and they too often try to shape the direction of school reform. This First-Year Seminar examines timely, often controversial, issues of education policy and practice through a sociological lens. We will address these topics with discussions of a documentary film on the history of American public schools, readings in contemporary social science, and our own research into specific policy debates.

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
  • Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
  • Instructor: Burdick-Will, Julia Burdick
  • Room: Gilman 134
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 12/12
  • PosTag(s): n/a

FYS: Cults, Communes, and Conspiracies
AS.001.136 (01)

Cults, communes, and conspiracies are unusual social and ideological organizations. How should we understand their origins, structure, and functioning? In our First-Year Seminar, we will assess the value of alternative explanatory concepts from the social sciences, such as charismatic leadership, organizational ecology, network structure, status competition, social influence, and belief propagation. We will then interpret cases in comparative perspective, asking, for example, how cults differ from religious sects, how communes differ from political movements, and how organized crime groups differ from legal businesses.

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
  • Days/Times: T 3:00PM - 5:30PM
  • Instructor: Morgan, Stephen L
  • Room: Krieger Laverty
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 12/12
  • PosTag(s): n/a

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 Mae
  • Room: Gilman 55
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 1/18
  • PosTag(s): INST-AP

Introduction to Sociology
AS.230.101 (01)

The course introduces students to the discipline of sociology. You will learn about (a) theoretical approaches in sociology; (b) some of the subject matters that sociologists study, including inequality, capitalism, labor, the state, social control, race, gender, sexuality, culture, religion, population dynamics, and health; and (c) sociological methods. Most importantly, you will learn (d) how to see the world as a sociologist. That is, you will become a sociologist.

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
  • Days/Times: MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 9:00AM - 9:50AM
  • Instructor: Calder, Ryan
  • Room: Gilman 50
  • Status: Reserved Open
  • Seats Available: 10/15
  • PosTag(s): n/a

Introduction to Sociology
AS.230.101 (02)

The course introduces students to the discipline of sociology. You will learn about (a) theoretical approaches in sociology; (b) some of the subject matters that sociologists study, including inequality, capitalism, labor, the state, social control, race, gender, sexuality, culture, religion, population dynamics, and health; and (c) sociological methods. Most importantly, you will learn (d) how to see the world as a sociologist. That is, you will become a sociologist.

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
  • Days/Times: MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 9:00AM - 9:50AM
  • Instructor: Calder, Ryan
  • Room: Gilman 50
  • Status: Reserved Open
  • Seats Available: 13/15
  • PosTag(s): n/a

Introduction to Sociology
AS.230.101 (03)

The course introduces students to the discipline of sociology. You will learn about (a) theoretical approaches in sociology; (b) some of the subject matters that sociologists study, including inequality, capitalism, labor, the state, social control, race, gender, sexuality, culture, religion, population dynamics, and health; and (c) sociological methods. Most importantly, you will learn (d) how to see the world as a sociologist. That is, you will become a sociologist.

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
  • Days/Times: MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM
  • Instructor: Calder, Ryan
  • Room: Gilman 50
  • Status: Reserved Open
  • Seats Available: 8/15
  • PosTag(s): n/a

Introduction to Sociology
AS.230.101 (04)

The course introduces students to the discipline of sociology. You will learn about (a) theoretical approaches in sociology; (b) some of the subject matters that sociologists study, including inequality, capitalism, labor, the state, social control, race, gender, sexuality, culture, religion, population dynamics, and health; and (c) sociological methods. Most importantly, you will learn (d) how to see the world as a sociologist. That is, you will become a sociologist.

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
  • Days/Times: MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM
  • Instructor: Calder, Ryan
  • Room: Gilman 50
  • Status: Reserved Open
  • Seats Available: 9/15
  • PosTag(s): n/a

Introduction to Sociology
AS.230.101 (05)

The course introduces students to the discipline of sociology. You will learn about (a) theoretical approaches in sociology; (b) some of the subject matters that sociologists study, including inequality, capitalism, labor, the state, social control, race, gender, sexuality, culture, religion, population dynamics, and health; and (c) sociological methods. Most importantly, you will learn (d) how to see the world as a sociologist. That is, you will become a sociologist.

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
  • Days/Times: MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM
  • Instructor: Calder, Ryan
  • Room: Gilman 50
  • Status: Reserved Open
  • Seats Available: 9/15
  • PosTag(s): n/a

Introduction to Sociology
AS.230.101 (06)

The course introduces students to the discipline of sociology. You will learn about (a) theoretical approaches in sociology; (b) some of the subject matters that sociologists study, including inequality, capitalism, labor, the state, social control, race, gender, sexuality, culture, religion, population dynamics, and health; and (c) sociological methods. Most importantly, you will learn (d) how to see the world as a sociologist. That is, you will become a sociologist.

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
  • Days/Times: MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
  • Instructor: Calder, Ryan
  • Room: Gilman 50
  • Status: Reserved Open
  • Seats Available: 10/15
  • PosTag(s): n/a

Introduction to Sociology
AS.230.101 (07)

The course introduces students to the discipline of sociology. You will learn about (a) theoretical approaches in sociology; (b) some of the subject matters that sociologists study, including inequality, capitalism, labor, the state, social control, race, gender, sexuality, culture, religion, population dynamics, and health; and (c) sociological methods. Most importantly, you will learn (d) how to see the world as a sociologist. That is, you will become a sociologist.

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
  • Days/Times: MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
  • Instructor: Calder, Ryan
  • Room: Gilman 50
  • Status: Reserved Open
  • Seats Available: 10/15
  • PosTag(s): n/a

Introduction to Sociology
AS.230.101 (08)

The course introduces students to the discipline of sociology. You will learn about (a) theoretical approaches in sociology; (b) some of the subject matters that sociologists study, including inequality, capitalism, labor, the state, social control, race, gender, sexuality, culture, religion, population dynamics, and health; and (c) sociological methods. Most importantly, you will learn (d) how to see the world as a sociologist. That is, you will become a sociologist.

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
  • Days/Times: MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
  • Instructor: Calder, Ryan
  • Room: Gilman 50
  • Status: Reserved Open
  • Seats Available: 9/15
  • PosTag(s): n/a

Introduction to Sociology
AS.230.101 (09)

The course introduces students to the discipline of sociology. You will learn about (a) theoretical approaches in sociology; (b) some of the subject matters that sociologists study, including inequality, capitalism, labor, the state, social control, race, gender, sexuality, culture, religion, population dynamics, and health; and (c) sociological methods. Most importantly, you will learn (d) how to see the world as a sociologist. That is, you will become a sociologist.

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
  • Days/Times: MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM
  • Instructor: Calder, Ryan
  • Room: Gilman 50
  • Status: Reserved Open
  • Seats Available: 10/15
  • PosTag(s): n/a

Chinese Revolutions
AS.230.175 (01)

This survey course examines the foreign influence on China’s political changes between the nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries. The topics include Chinese Christians and anti-dynastic revolutions, Japanese imperialism and Chinese nationalism, Chinese overseas and federalist movements, as well as global connections of Chinese communist movements between 1921 and 1949.

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
  • Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
  • Instructor: Kuo, Huei-Ying
  • Room: Gilman 413
  • Status: Reserved Open
  • Seats Available: 10/18
  • PosTag(s): INST-CP, INST-GLOBAL

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 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM
  • Instructor: Reese, Mike J
  • Room: Bloomberg 274
  • Status: Reserved Open
  • Seats Available: 14/20
  • PosTag(s): n/a

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 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
  • Instructor: Reese, Mike J
  • Room: Bloomberg 274
  • Status: Reserved Open
  • Seats Available: 15/20
  • PosTag(s): n/a

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: TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM
  • Instructor: Agree, Emily
  • Room: Hodson 301
  • Status: Reserved Open
  • Seats Available: 9/18
  • PosTag(s): n/a

Coffee, Tea and Empires
AS.230.239 (01)

The course examines the modern transformation of social life from the prism of coffee and tea. The topics include colonial expansion and cash-crop production, pan-Asianism and Orientalism, the question of the public sphere, and food nationalism.

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
  • Days/Times: TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
  • Instructor: Kuo, Huei-Ying
  • Room: Gilman 413
  • Status: Reserved Open
  • Seats Available: 6/18
  • PosTag(s): INST-CP, INST-GLOBAL, INST-IR

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 1:30PM - 2:45PM
  • Instructor: Greif, Meredith
  • Room: Smokler Center 213
  • Status: Reserved Open
  • Seats Available: 11/20
  • PosTag(s): INST-AP, MSCH-HUM

Space, Place, Poverty & Race: Sociological Perspectives on Neighborhoods & Public Housing
AS.230.313 (01)

Recent national conversations about racial segregation, inequality and the affordable housing crisis raise many important questions—this course focuses on several of these questions, through the lens of urban sociology and housing policy. There are three main areas we will focus on in the course: 1) Understanding the role of racial segregation, neighborhood and housing effects on children and family life; 2) Research methods for studying urban poverty and neighborhoods; and 3) Programs, policies and initiatives designed to house the poor, alleviate concentrated spatial poverty, and increase residential choice. We will primarily focus on issues related to urban poverty in large cities, comparing the patterns of residential mobility and neighborhood characteristics for white and Black Americans. We will utilize archival data, qualitative interviews, census data, and quasi/experimental data to gather evidence about neighborhoods, housing, and policies, as well as their impacts. We will also explore interactive online applications that facilitate the study of neighborhoods (e.g. American Community Survey, GIS with Social Explorer). A statistics/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: Abel Wolman House 100
  • Status: Reserved Open
  • Seats Available: 10/15
  • PosTag(s): n/a

Sociology of Immigration
AS.230.317 (01)

This course surveys sociological theories and research on immigration to the U.S. Theoretical approaches include theories of international migration, economic sociology, immigration, and assimilation. Research topics include the impact of U.S. immigration laws and policies on immigrant inflows and stocks, self-selection of immigrants, the impact of immigration on the native-born population and the U.S. labor market and economy, and the adaptation of the first and second generations.

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
  • Days/Times: MW 4:30PM - 5:45PM
  • Instructor: Hao, Lingxin
  • Room: Gilman 277
  • Status: Reserved Open
  • Seats Available: 8/15
  • PosTag(s): INST-IR

Agrarian Change in Post-Reform China and Beyond
AS.230.328 (01)

Rural China is experiencing profound socioeconomic and political transformations during four decades of reform. When millions of rural migrants leave their hometown to work in factories, the countryside is simultaneously being remade by the expansion of cities and state policies that seek to revolutionize Chinese agriculture. These ongoing and uncertain dynamics reshape social relations, conflicts, and tensions among state, peasants, and capital in the rural social space. This course examines the historical origins, uncertain processes, and profound social consequences of these major changes that are taking place in post-reform rural China. The course is organized around 4 modules. In each of them, students will first read about key concepts and theoretical frameworks, such as socialist primitive accumulation, collective action, social reproduction, and peasant moral economy. They will then use these analytical tools to critically engage with the more empirically grounded research on China’s agrarian transformation. While the course primarily focuses on China, students will have opportunities to conduct research on other parts of the world, which will provide useful, comparative viewpoints.

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
  • Days/Times: MW 4:30PM - 5:45PM
  • Instructor: Liu, Tiantian
  • Room:  
  • Status: Reserved Open
  • Seats Available: 16/18
  • PosTag(s): INST-CP

Family, Gender, and Sexuality in East Asia
AS.230.332 (01)

How do men and women make decisions about marriage and childbearing, negotiate work-family demands, and divide housework and childcare? Why are East Asian societies experiencing lowest-low fertility? What are the legacies of the one-child policy? How does homosexuality transcend patriarchal family? To answer these questions, this course will explore in depth the dynamics of family, gender, and sexuality in contemporary East Asia (mainly China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan).

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
  • Days/Times: T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
  • Instructor: Wan, Yifeng
  • Room:  
  • Status: Reserved Open
  • Seats Available: 15/18
  • PosTag(s): INST-CP

School Choice: How Parents and Policy Shape Children's Schooling
AS.230.333 (01)

How do children end up attending the schools they do? Children in the United States have historically attended schools based on where they live, but school choice policies have changed how students are sorted into schools. This development is consequential for children’s schooling experiences, how schools and school systems operate, and the ways that schooling as an institution reflects and generates economic and racial inequalities. In this course, students will examine the different forms that school choice takes in the United States today as well as parents’ school decision-making. Drawing on insights from sociology as well as history, philosophy, and political science, this course will ask students to think critically about the ways that policy and parental decision-making intersect to shape children’s lives and the nation’s schools.

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
  • Days/Times: Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
  • Instructor: Boselovic, Joseph Leonard
  • Room: Latrobe 120
  • Status: Reserved Open
  • Seats Available: 12/18
  • PosTag(s): n/a

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: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
  • Instructor: Naveh Benjamin, Ilil
  • Room: Smokler Center Library
  • Status: Reserved Open
  • Seats Available: 1/18
  • PosTag(s): INST-IR, MSCH-HUM

Human Rights Activism: Between Theory and Practice
AS.230.340 (01)

The right to freedom from slavery. The right to movement. The right to healthcare. These rights, as described in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, are typically pitched as a universal good. But are they truly universal? Or do human rights discourses reflect a particular set of priorities and values, articulated in particular times and places? This course will address this question by exploring both current debates surrounding human rights, and the real-life challenges that activists face in putting them into practice. However powerful they may sound on paper, how binding are human rights treaties in the public sphere? How can human rights advocacy prompt governments to protect women, refugees, and sexual and gender minorities? Secondly, do understandings of justice in the Global South ever differ from those articulated in the 1948 Declaration? Finally, do human rights discourses embrace all kinds of rights equally? For example, why have human rights organizations like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch historically prioritized civil and political rights, like freedom of religion, over economic rights, like the right to healthcare? And more broadly, what can human rights advocacy do in the global fight against capitalist exploitation? The emancipatory rhetoric of human rights, critics worry, cannot itself undo the grim realities of global inequality. In an unequal world, could human rights organizations compel corporations to pay livable wages to their employees? Or obligate governments to provide healthcare to their citizens? Drawing on global case studies ranging from pro-refugee activists along the Greece-Turkey border to anti-FGC (female genital cutting) activism in the Gambia, this course aims to provide students with the tools to think critically about rights as a vehicle for social change.

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
  • Days/Times: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
  • Instructor: Naveh Benjamin, Ilil
  • Room: Smokler Center Library
  • Status: Waitlist Only
  • Seats Available: 0/18
  • PosTag(s): INST-IR

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: Olin 305
  • Status: Waitlist Only
  • Seats Available: 0/15
  • PosTag(s): n/a

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: Olin 305
  • Status: Waitlist Only
  • Seats Available: 0/15
  • PosTag(s): n/a

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: Olin 305
  • Status: Waitlist Only
  • Seats Available: 0/15
  • PosTag(s): n/a

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: Olin 305
  • Status: Reserved Open
  • Seats Available: 1/15
  • PosTag(s): n/a

Global Migration and Development
AS.230.345 (01)

Global migration is a hot topic in the news and in political campaigns today. It has reached an unprecedented size, and it has also fueled countless social protests around racial, ethnic, and class-based tensions. Indeed, the speed, size, and controversies around global migration are re-shaping our conventional understandings of the nation-state, citizenship, and welfare rights. But global migration is not new. Therefore contemporary migration raises important questions about what is and is not unique about the present moment. This course will begin my introducing students to the long history of global migration and capitalism. It will then examine the various aspects of contemporary migration--covering issues of gender, South-South migration, class and skill, sending and receiving countries' roles in controlling migration, migrants' protests, diaspora organizations, and the connections between immigration and emigration. Through in-depth reading and discussion, the course engages students in understanding and critiquing contentious perspectives on these issues. The course aims to provide students with a solid understanding of the theories, methodologies, research, and debates that shape contemporary discussions of international migration and development.

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
  • Days/Times: Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
  • Instructor: Agarwala, Rina
  • Room: Krieger 180
  • Status: Reserved Open
  • Seats Available: 8/15
  • PosTag(s): INST-IR, INST-ECON

Caste and Race in Capitalism
AS.230.355 (01)

This course investigates two familiar concepts in sociology: race and caste. For the majority of theoretical contributions on race and caste focus on North America or the developed world, this course aims at advancing an understanding of race and caste from non-western experiences. In modern history, many scholars have debated the similarities and differences between the two concepts and the course aims at introducing the students to these writings. The course focuses on a specific historical phase: capitalism. To build more explicit connections of both race and caste with class, the course will focus on developments since colonization in most of the world, which introduced capitalist relations as a hegemonic force. The students will engage with broader questions such as: how are caste and race different from and similar to each other? Is it possible to use one category to describe the other? If so, how? What are the essential elements of these two categories in their given social contexts? How does incorporating ‘class’ into analysis shape the defining elements of race and caste?

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
  • Days/Times: Th 4:30PM - 7:00PM
  • Instructor: Sharma, Sonal
  • Room: Krieger 304
  • Status: Reserved Open
  • Seats Available: 10/18
  • PosTag(s): INST-ECON, INST-GLOBAL

Finance Capitalism
AS.230.360 (01)

Cryptocurrencies? NFTs? Meme stocks? What is happening in contemporary capitalism? To answer this question, our seminar will facilitate an in-depth engagement with the theories and histories of finance capitalism. We will focus on how the financial transformations of capitalism over the past century have been theorized and historicized towards answering the following questions: is finance capitalism an aberration, a phase, or the norm of capitalism? What are the underlying forces driving financialization? What is the relationship between finance capitalism, economic crises, rising indebtedness, and racial capitalism? And what can we say about where contemporary capitalism is headed? This seminar will take an interdisciplinary approach, reading prominent thinkers across political economy, history, sociology, geography, and political science. Our readings and discussions will explore the past, structure, and movement of contemporary capitalist society and help to orient us in this bewildering era of financial exuberance, taking stock of the present and its possible trajectories.

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
  • Days/Times: T 4:30PM - 7:00PM
  • Instructor: Jacober, Conrad
  • Room: Krieger 304
  • Status: Reserved Open
  • Seats Available: 6/15
  • PosTag(s): INST-ECON, INST-PT

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 3:00PM - 4:15PM
  • Instructor: Greif, Meredith
  • Room: Smokler Center 213
  • Status: Waitlist Only
  • Seats Available: 0/20
  • PosTag(s): INST-AP

Social Statistics
AS.230.394 (01)

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.

  • Credits: 4.00
  • Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
  • Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM
  • Instructor: Reese, Mike J
  • Room: Bloomberg 274
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 3/3
  • PosTag(s): n/a

Social Statistics
AS.230.394 (02)

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.

  • Credits: 4.00
  • Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
  • Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
  • Instructor: Reese, Mike J
  • Room: Bloomberg 274
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 3/3
  • PosTag(s): n/a

Social Demography
AS.230.416 (01)

This course is designed as a basic graduate level introduction to social demography, but will be open to advanced undergrad students. Sociology, as well as other social science disciplines, will be employed to facilitate the understanding of the interaction between social and demographic forces. We start with an introduction to basic concepts and data issues in demography. We then cover the study of three basic population processes: fertility, mortality and migration. Other selected topics include family demography, population composition and structure, population aging, and the intersection among population, policy, environment and economic development.

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
  • Days/Times: W 3:00PM - 5:30PM
  • Instructor: Chen, Feinian
  • Room:  
  • Status: Reserved Open
  • Seats Available: 11/12
  • PosTag(s): n/a

Ethnicity in China
AS.310.332 (01)

Ever since the Chinese Empire fell in 1911, Chinese have tried to think of themselves as modern and to build a modern Chinese state. Among the Western concepts that Chinese appropriated to define and comprehend themselves were the notions of ethnicity, culture, nationality, and race. We will try to answer the following questions: What was the allure of arcane and elusive Western categories on culture, ethnicity, and race for Chinese scientists in the 20th century, and how did these categories come to underpin the rule of the Chinese state over its enormous population since the founding of the People’s Republic in 1949? How have the Chinese state’s policies on nationality and ethnicity shaped the minds of American China scholars as they study ethnicity and nationality in China?

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
  • Days/Times: TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
  • Instructor: Staff
  • Room: Mergenthaler 266
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 13/15
  • PosTag(s): INST-CP, INST-GLOBAL

Rebellion and Its Enemies in China Today
AS.310.336 (01)

On 13 October 2022, a middle-aged upper-middle class Chinese man staged a public political protest on an elevated road in Beijing. Peng Lifa, or “Bridge Man,” as he has become known in allusion to Tank Man from the Tiananmen demonstrations in 1989, demanded elections and reforms. How have urban Chinese been able to be so content or even happy despite their lack of political freedom? The class readings will introduce you to different kinds of activists who have confronted the authoritarian state since the late 1990s, among them human rights lawyers, reporters, environmental activists, feminists, religious activists, and labor activists. We will ask whether freedom, an obviously Western notion, is useful as an analytical category to think about China. Does freedom translate across the West/non-West divide?

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
  • Days/Times: TTh 4:30PM - 5:45PM
  • Instructor: Staff
  • Room: Mergenthaler 266
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 4/15
  • PosTag(s): INST-CP

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.

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
  • Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
  • Instructor: Schrader, Stuart Laurence
  • Room: Shriver Hall 001
  • Status: Waitlist Only
  • Seats Available: 0/18
  • PosTag(s): INST-CP, INST-AP

Course # (Section) Title Day/Times Instructor Room PosTag(s) Info
AS.001.133 (01)FYS: Hot Topics in EducationTTh 10:30AM - 11:45AMBurdick-Will, Julia BurdickGilman 134
AS.001.136 (01)FYS: Cults, Communes, and ConspiraciesT 3:00PM - 5:30PMMorgan, Stephen LKrieger Laverty
AS.190.437 (01)Race and Ethnic Politics in the United StatesTh 1:30PM - 4:00PMWeaver, Vesla MaeGilman 55INST-AP
AS.230.101 (01)Introduction to SociologyMW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 9:00AM - 9:50AMCalder, RyanGilman 50
AS.230.101 (02)Introduction to SociologyMW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 9:00AM - 9:50AMCalder, RyanGilman 50
AS.230.101 (03)Introduction to SociologyMW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AMCalder, RyanGilman 50
AS.230.101 (04)Introduction to SociologyMW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AMCalder, RyanGilman 50
AS.230.101 (05)Introduction to SociologyMW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AMCalder, RyanGilman 50
AS.230.101 (06)Introduction to SociologyMW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AMCalder, RyanGilman 50
AS.230.101 (07)Introduction to SociologyMW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AMCalder, RyanGilman 50
AS.230.101 (08)Introduction to SociologyMW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AMCalder, RyanGilman 50
AS.230.101 (09)Introduction to SociologyMW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PMCalder, RyanGilman 50
AS.230.175 (01)Chinese RevolutionsTTh 10:30AM - 11:45AMKuo, Huei-YingGilman 413INST-CP, INST-GLOBAL
AS.230.205 (01)Introduction to Social StatisticsMW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AMReese, Mike JBloomberg 274
AS.230.205 (02)Introduction to Social StatisticsMW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AMReese, Mike JBloomberg 274
AS.230.216 (01)Disability and SocietyTTh 3:00PM - 4:15PMAgree, EmilyHodson 301
AS.230.239 (01)Coffee, Tea and EmpiresTTh 9:00AM - 10:15AMKuo, Huei-YingGilman 413INST-CP, INST-GLOBAL, INST-IR
AS.230.244 (01)Race and Ethnicity in American SocietyTTh 1:30PM - 2:45PMGreif, MeredithSmokler Center 213INST-AP, MSCH-HUM
AS.230.313 (01)Space, Place, Poverty & Race: Sociological Perspectives on Neighborhoods & Public HousingT 3:00PM - 5:30PMDeluca, StefanieAbel Wolman House 100
AS.230.317 (01)Sociology of ImmigrationMW 4:30PM - 5:45PMHao, LingxinGilman 277INST-IR
AS.230.328 (01)Agrarian Change in Post-Reform China and BeyondMW 4:30PM - 5:45PMLiu, Tiantian INST-CP
AS.230.332 (01)Family, Gender, and Sexuality in East AsiaT 1:30PM - 4:00PMWan, Yifeng INST-CP
AS.230.333 (01)School Choice: How Parents and Policy Shape Children's SchoolingTh 1:30PM - 4:00PMBoselovic, Joseph LeonardLatrobe 120
AS.230.335 (01)Medical HumanitarianismTTh 10:30AM - 11:45AMNaveh Benjamin, IlilSmokler Center LibraryINST-IR, MSCH-HUM
AS.230.340 (01)Human Rights Activism: Between Theory and PracticeTTh 12:00PM - 1:15PMNaveh Benjamin, IlilSmokler Center LibraryINST-IR
AS.230.341 (01)Sociology of Health and IllnessM 3:00PM - 4:50PM, W 3:00PM - 3:50PMAgree, EmilyOlin 305
AS.230.341 (02)Sociology of Health and IllnessM 3:00PM - 4:50PM, W 3:00PM - 3:50PMAgree, EmilyOlin 305
AS.230.341 (03)Sociology of Health and IllnessM 3:00PM - 4:50PM, W 4:00PM - 4:50PMAgree, EmilyOlin 305
AS.230.341 (04)Sociology of Health and IllnessM 3:00PM - 4:50PM, W 4:00PM - 4:50PMAgree, EmilyOlin 305
AS.230.345 (01)Global Migration and DevelopmentTh 1:30PM - 4:00PMAgarwala, RinaKrieger 180INST-IR, INST-ECON
AS.230.355 (01)Caste and Race in CapitalismTh 4:30PM - 7:00PMSharma, SonalKrieger 304INST-ECON, INST-GLOBAL
AS.230.360 (01)Finance CapitalismT 4:30PM - 7:00PMJacober, ConradKrieger 304INST-ECON, INST-PT
AS.230.370 (01)Housing and Homelessness in the United StatesTTh 3:00PM - 4:15PMGreif, MeredithSmokler Center 213INST-AP
AS.230.394 (01)Social StatisticsMW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AMReese, Mike JBloomberg 274
AS.230.394 (02)Social StatisticsMW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AMReese, Mike JBloomberg 274
AS.230.416 (01)Social DemographyW 3:00PM - 5:30PMChen, Feinian 
AS.310.332 (01)Ethnicity in ChinaTTh 9:00AM - 10:15AMStaffMergenthaler 266INST-CP, INST-GLOBAL
AS.310.336 (01)Rebellion and Its Enemies in China TodayTTh 4:30PM - 5:45PMStaffMergenthaler 266INST-CP
AS.362.115 (01)Introduction to Police and PrisonsMW 12:00PM - 1:15PMSchrader, Stuart LaurenceShriver Hall 001INST-CP, INST-AP