Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Introduction to the principal concepts, theories and methods of sociology. Required (normally) for sociology majors and minors.

Long Title: SOCIAL INEQUALITY

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course investigates the causes and consequences of social inequality in the U.S., focusing on inequality by class, race, and gender. We will discuss different measures of inequality, the extent of inequality, as well as classical and modern theories for why it has been increasing since the 1970s. In addition, we will discuss how much inequality is justifiable and which redistributive programs work.

Long Title: ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES: RICE INTO THE FUTURE

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Laboratory

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Distribution Group: Distribution Group III

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Students use the campus as a laboratory for learning about sustainability through group projects to reduce Rice's environmental impact or resolve environmental problem. Cross-list: ENST 302.

Long Title: SOCIOLOGY OF ART

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course covers the classical and contemporary sociological perspectives on the arts. The "arts" examined here are to be understood in a broad sense to include both fine arts and popular culture. The interaction between developments in art and various social movements will be highlighted and examined.

Long Title: SOCIOLOGY OF GENDER

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Relationship between gender and social role. Development of the contemporary sexual division of labor and process of socialization with reference to family, education, media, and occupations. Cross-list: SWGS 324.

Long Title: HOUSTON: THE SOCIOLOGY OF A CITY

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Houston as an exemplar of contemporary urban change. The "golden buckle of the sunbelt"; recovery from the oil boom collapse of the 1980s into a restructional economy and a demographic revolution; the changing politics of education, quality-of-life issues, and interethnic relations, as they interact to shape the urban future. Guest lectures, field trips.

Long Title: RACE AND ETHNIC RELATIONS

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Historical and contemporary issues and theories of race and ethnic relations in the United States. The key groups covered will be European Americans, African Americans, Native Americans, Asian Americans, and Mexican Americans. Group patterns of assimilation and conflict inform a basic tenet that race and ethnicity are organizing features of society.

Long Title: URBAN SOCIOLOGY

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Study of urban development, form, and heterogeneity; and the conditions of life associated with living in cities. Examines the rise of cities, their growth and purposes in the U.S. and internationally. Examines behavioral adaptations required by city life, and considers urban subcultures.

Long Title: THE SOCIOLOGY OF DEVIANT BEHAVIOR

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course discusses deviance as a process, an interaction of societal reaction and deviant response. It will highlight deviance as a relative and socially constructed concept. A firm understanding of classic and contemporary deviant theory with demonstrated applications through current relevant social topics and current sociological research will be given.

Long Title: DEMOGRAPHY

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Introduction to the study of the dynamics of population change. Includes demographic data sources, components of population change, mortality patterns, family planning, the measurement of migration flows, and population-economic models. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: SOCI 513. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for SOCI 313 if student has credit for SOCI 513.

Long Title: SCIENCE AT RISK? OUT OF THE LAB AND INTO PUBLIC SPHERE

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: What happens when science enters the public sphere and when the public sphere enters science? Through the lens of sociology we will examine some of the most controversial issues facing science, including biotechnology, science and religion, US knowledge of science, increasing diversity of the science workforce and corporate funding.

Long Title: POPULATION AND SOCIETY

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): SOCI 101

Description: Population and Society examines social problems and social change from a population-based perspective. Topics include: basics of demographic measurement and demographic processes (e.g. mortality, fertility, and migration), population growth and social inequality, the changing ways U.S. Census counts population, population growth and changes in the American family.

Long Title: ENVIRONMENTAL FILM

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Explores the ways film represents the environment and environmental issues (food, water, energy, waste, environmental justice, sustainability), and both expresses and shapes environmental values. We will view and analyze a variety of genres, as well as reading supplementary material. Cross-list: ENST 316.

Long Title: SOCIOLOGY OF WORK AND OCCUPATIONS

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Work is a central part of our lives. We will examine how work is structured in occupations and industries and how it changes over time. We will focus on understanding the lives of workers: work and inequalities between men and women, racial/ethnic inequalities, and relations between work and family.

Long Title: CRIMINOLOGY

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Study of criminal behavior. Includes social construction of crime, elementary forms of crime, empirical patterns of crime, and theories of crime. Field work required.

Long Title: SOCIOLOGY OF LAW

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will explore law and legality utilizing a sociological perspective. We place law within its social and political context, and examine how law influences everyday life. We explore sociological theories of law, empirical studies of law, legal institutions, and how social characteristics influence legal outcomes. Fieldwork required.

Long Title: SUPERVISED RESEARCH I

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 1 TO 4

Description: This course offers the opportunity to work with a faculty member on that faculty member's existing research project. The course involves intensive pedagogy and mentoring including a pedagorical plan developed in conjunction with the sponsoring faculty member. Instructor Permission Required.

Long Title: SUPERVISED RESEARCH II

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 1 TO 4

Description: This course offers the opportunity to work with a faculty member on that faculty member's existing research project. The course involves intensive pedagogy and mentoring including a pedagorical plan developed in conjunction with the sponsoring faculty member. Please contact the Department for a description of the section you are registering for. Instructor Permission Required.

Long Title: MULTIRACIAL AMERICA

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Multiracial America examines the phenomenon of race mixing (e.g. interracial interaction, multiracial identity) from a sociological perspective. The course covers the legal, political, and cultural contexts of interracial interaction and how these impact current understanding of what it means to be "mixed race." Recommended Prerequisite(s): SOCI 101

Long Title: SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Study of religious beliefs, symbols, actions, organizations, roles, and various interrelationships between religion and society. Includes new religious movements, secularization, and fundamentalism. Field work required.

Long Title: SOCIOLOGY OF THE FAMILY

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will teach students the important influences and consequences of American family life. We will consider issues such as sex and sexualities, marriage and cohabitation, divorce, family structure, same-sex marriage, domestic violence, and household labor. We will also examine the role of social institutions and social inequality in shaping family norms and constraints on family behaviors. Cross-list: SWGS 325.

Long Title: SOCIAL PROBLEMS

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course describes and analyzes social problems from national and international perspectives, and identifies how these problems affect, and are affected by, our institutions and culture. This course also explores the diverse contributions sociology has made to the understanding of complex social issues.

Long Title: SOCIOLOGY OF SCIENCE

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course explores the social foundations of the production of scientific knowledge, the social organization of science of an institution, and the relations between science and other parts of society.

Long Title: SOCIOLOGY OF IMMIGRATION

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Sociology of Immigration traces the migration process from initiation through its long-term consequences using theories of initiation (e.g. economic and sociological models) and adaptation (e.g. segmented assimilation, new assimilation theory). It also explores the effects of immigration policies.

Long Title: QUALITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course examines qualitative methodological approaches for conducting social science research. Particularly, students will examine how qualitative methods allow social scientists to analyze the symbolic, religious, gendered, socio-economic, policies and historical forces and contexts that underlie and motivate beliefs, ideologies, practices and social change. Cross-list: ASIA 385, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: SOCI 541. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for SOCI 341 if student has credit for SOCI 541.

Long Title: SOCIOLOGY OF GLOBALIZATION

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course explores how the process of global integration transforms human life with specific emphasis on: the global economy and economic development; transnational political organizations; culture an identity; the effect of globalization on social stratification, including gender/race/ethnic inequalities; transnational migration; environmental change; and transnational social movements.

Long Title: RACE, SOCIETY AND POPULATION CHANGE

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The U.S. population is more diverse than ever before - how did that happen? This course looks at how race and ethnicity patterns demographic processes. This course explores demographic techniques and collection of racial data. Topics include: Roots of racial diversity, collecting racial data, immigration and population growth, and population polices. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: SOCI 543. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for SOCI 343 if student has credit for SOCI 543.

Long Title: MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will explore the relationship between social factors and health, illness, and mortality, with a heavy emphasis on experiences of illness, the doctor-patient relationship, and the socialization of medical students and new doctors. Social determinants of health, cultural determinants of health, and the ethics surrounding conception, birth, and death will also be discussed.

Long Title: ORGANIZATIONAL SOCIOLOGY

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: From congregations to corporations to colleges, organizations surround us. While the prominence of organizations in our daily lives is an indicator of their success, we know that organizations can be impersonal, unresponsive and even corrupt. This course will visit social scientists' best attempts to figure out what makes organizations tick.

Long Title: DEVIANCE JUSTICE AND POPULAR CULTURE

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This class will critically explore cultural imaginaries of deviance, crime, law and justice. How are these portrayed (historically and contemporarily) in popular culture, including television, film, social media outlets, newspapers and magazines, novels, and 'art.' Well also interrogate has these images and portrayals interact with perceptions, personhood (identity), and policy.-

Long Title: URBAN TRANSPORTATION

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Moving people and goods within cities is the stuff of legendary challenge and the life blood of urban areas. In this course we study the transportation systems used in European and US cities, examine advantages and disadvantages of different systems, and consider whether major transformations in urban transportation are on the horizon.

Long Title: THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF PUNISHMENT

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will focus on the writings of some of the most influential scholars in sociology, legal philosophy and political theory who have contributed to the creation of ideal or normative views of legal punishment and exposing the harsh realities of how non-violent and violent criminals are actually punished.

Long Title: THE UNITED STATES CENSUS: HISTORY AND SUBSTANCE

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course examines the history of census taking and the content and form of the census from 1790 to the present. In addition, it examines how the content of the census has changed and how social, economic and other factors have influenced the content.

Long Title: SOCIOLOGY OF DRUGS AND ALCOHOL

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will focus on the use of drugs in the United States, and will discuss issues relating to tobacco (e.g., regulation and marketing), alcohol (e.g., binge drinking), legal drugs (e.g., regulation, pricing, and marketing), and illicit drug use (e.g., The War on Drugs, legalization vs. prohibition debates, medical marijuana).

Long Title: SOCIOLOGY OF CULTURE

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course surveys the different sociological approaches to studying culture. Part I focuses on the relationships between culture and social structure, including various theoretical approaches. Part II examines different perspectives on modern culture.

Long Title: POLITICS OF REPRESENTATION: HOW WE UNDERSTAND "WAR" AND "THE RACIAL OTHER"

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Does media show how things really are? This class explores the politics of representation, particularly in times of social mayhem, revolution, and war. Although we will focus primarily on cultural and political representations of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, this class will also put this dispute in comparison with other global events. Cross-list: ANTH 365.

Long Title: ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIOLOGY

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course focuses on the foundations of environmental sociology and takes a social and historical approach to examine how humans affect the environment and the environment affects humans. Topics include: agricultural sustainability, resource extraction and climate changes; environmental racism/sexism; globalization and development; population, and consumption, and environmental movements. Cross-list: ENST 367.

Long Title: THEORIES OF AGENCY IN TIMES OF CONSTRAINT: FROM GAZA, JERUSALEM TO FERGUSON

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Exploration of constraint using the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as our central case study, along with a number of global events. Will survey the efforts involved in giving voice to the silence, possible implications of not claiming a voice, remaining historically mute in times of social turmoil, racial oppression, and war. Cross-list: ANTH 369.

Long Title: POVERTY, JUSTICE, AND HUMAN CAPABILITIES

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course provides an overview of the study of poverty, justice, and human capabilities. The course considers theory and economic policy oriented towards improving human well-being in the US, Asia, Africa, and other regions. Readings address not just material deprivations but also gender, racial and ethnic disparities, health status, education, human rights, and political freedoms. To be considered for the course, please email pjhc@rice.edu to complete a brief questionnaire. Preference is given to those that have declared the PJHC minor. Formerly HUMA/SOCI 280. Instructor Permission Required.Cross-list: HUMA 371. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for SOCI 371 if student has credit for HUMA 280/SOCI 280.

Long Title: HUMAN DEVELOPMENT IN GLOBAL AND LOCAL COMMUNITIES

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): HUMA 280 OR SOCI 280 OR HUMA 371 OR SOCI 371

Description: This course explores poverty and gender in local and global communities. Readings consider human deprivations and well-being in the context of social norms, gender relations, and governmental structures. Also examined are policies meant to improve human capabilities, including both the overall effects of such policies and their differential consequences for children, women, and men. Cross-list: ASIA 329, SWGS 322.

Long Title: CONTESTED GEOGRAPHIES

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Examines local and globally mediated formations of ethnic and racial identities. Explores the history of racial categories and focuses on the ways transnational communities are altered through contact with "homelands." Particular attention is given to "Arab-Jewish," "Palestinian," "Black," and "Latino" diasporic communities in Israel/Palestine and the USA.

Long Title: SOCIAL THEORY

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course engages and analyzes the foundational texts of social theory from its classical roots to its contemporary branches. Students will explore theoretical approaches that inform current sociological research and during the course will examine social phenomena of particular interest to them from the perspective of two major theorists.

Long Title: RESEARCH METHODS

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An introduction to the methods sociologists use to study human societies and their members. Hypothesis formulation and research design; qualitative studies through observation and interviews; historical and comparative approaches; sample surveys and the statistical analysis of quantitative data, political and ethical issues in social research.

Long Title: SOCIAL STATISTICS

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Emphasizes the practical uses of statistics to answer the types of questions sociologists ask. We learn sample description, sampling and probability, sampling theory, and how to make inferences from samples to populations. We study and apply common univariate, bivariate, and multivariate statistics. Because most statistical analysis is done with the aid of computers, we also learn how to use a common statistical package.

Long Title: FEMINIST SOCIAL THOUGHT

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Study of feminist theory as critique and reconstruction. Includes Wollstonecraft and de Beauvoir, as well as contemporary debates about equity, difference, knowledge, sexuality, and power. Cross-list: SWGS 383.

Long Title: THE CRAFT OF SOCIOLOGY

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Exploration of the work of sociology. Includes historical and social origins and development, and its shifting philosophical foundations, methodological refinements, and ethical and political implications, as well as discussion of classic and controversial sociological studies.

Long Title: RELIGION SEMINAR

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A course that explores the theories, tools, concepts, and major debates that are central to the sociology of religion. Specific attention is devoted to religious practices, communities, and identities as well as how the sociology of religion relates to other sub-fields within the broader discipline. Instructor Permission Required.Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: SOCI 501. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for SOCI 401 if student has credit for SOCI 501.

Long Title: RACE AND FAMILY SEMINAR

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: What features of family life are marked by race? This course examines the question and gauges whether differences are a matter of culture or do they reflect issues of structure (or access to opportunities) and what are the implications for race/ethnic inequality? Topics include racial socialization and ethnic identity. Instructor Permission Required.Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: SOCI 502. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for SOCI 402 if student has credit for SOCI 502.

Long Title: INDEPENDENT STUDY

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: Directed reading and written papers on subjects not regularly offered; advanced study of subjects on which courses are offered. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: INDEPENDENT STUDY

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 4

Description: Directed readings and essay writing on special subjects. Includes advanced study in subjects from other courses, if desired. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Beginning with the theoretical frameworks for ethnographic and other qualitative research methods, the course will cover ethics, entry, observation, field notes, interviewing, data analysis, and writing reports. It will offer a hands-on approach combining lectures, research through lectures, readings, and fieldwork. Field projects can be conducted in group, classroom, campus, or community settings. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: SOCI 505. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for SOCI 405 if student has credit for SOCI 505.

Long Title: BASIC DEMOGRAPHIC TECHNIQUES

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The course provides a survey of basic demographic methods for assessing population change, fertility, mortality, and (im)migration and characteristics such with age, gender, race/ethnicity, household/family composition, marital status, economic, employment, and educational. Emphasis placed on the use of the methods in a variety of demographic and other settings. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: SOCI 506. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for SOCI 406 if student has credit for SOCI 506.

Long Title: ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH II

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): SOCI 405

Description: Continuation of theoretical frameworks for ethnograpic and other qualitative research methods including ethics, entry, observation, field notes, interviewing, data analysis and writing reports. Field projects can be conducted in group, classroom, campus or community settings. Instructor Permission Required.

Long Title: VISUAL SOCIOLOGY

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Project driven course will explore historical and theoretical foundations of use of visual images in social science research. Class sessions will focus on images - the visual technologies for creation and documentation, sociological interpretation and analysis, and dissemination choices.

Long Title: RELIGION AND SOCIETY

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This seminar focuses on the ways in which religion is impacted by society, how society is shaped by religion, and the functions, uses, and meanings of religion in the modern world. We rely on the sociological perspective for understanding religion. Field work required.

Long Title: PERSPECTIVES ON RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE IN AN INTOLERANT AGE

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 1

Description: How do we understand religious pluralism in the midst of religious traditions that seem inherently at odds? Is religion more likely to bring peace or conflict? Through readings form the humanities and the social sciences and short lectures, this weekly undergraduate seminar will address these issues and more. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: SOCI 512. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for SOCI 412 if student has credit for SOCI 512.

Long Title: THE ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Examines the environmental movement in the U.S. and globally. After a historical overview, we will use a social movement perspective to examine mobilization, organizations and tactics, ideologies and identities, as well as exploring aspects of contemporary environmentalism (e.g. green building and slow flood, wildlife management/biodiversity, sustainable development, environmental justice). Cross-list: ENST 415.

Long Title: SOCIAL AUTOPSIES: HOW SOCIETY KILLS US

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course explores mortality, and how long we live, as a social process. Though we often reflect on the biological, physiological, and genetic conditions that play parts in the length of our lives, we will explore evidence suggesting that social conditions shape mortality prospects for all of us.

Long Title: SOCIOLOGY OF FOOD

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course examines the production, distribution, and consumption of food as a medium to understand the relations between large social processes and the practices of everyday life. Topics include: food policy; commodification of food; food security and hunger; food, health and the body; cultural food practices; and alternative food systems. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: SOCI 523. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for SOCI 423 if student has credit for SOCI 523.

Long Title: RACE AND ETHNICITY SEMINAR

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Overview of the sociological study of race and ethnic relations; identifying the major contributions made to the sociological study of race and the ethnicity; and the major areas in need of new thinking and research . Focus on theoretical formulations, historical understandings, and causes and consequences of race and technical relations globally Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: SOCI 524. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for SOCI 424 if student has credit for SOCI 524.

Long Title: POPULATION HEALTH SEMINAR

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Course is a graduate level overview of population health, including the social determinates of morbidity and mortality, fertility and birth outcomes, health disparities, and contextual determinants of health. Course will cover major theoretical perspectives in the field, including fundamental cause theory, life course theory, and theories of stress and resilience. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: SOCI 525. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for SOCI 425 if student has credit for SOCI 525.

Long Title: CONTEMPORARY THEORY

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course builds foundational understanding of the diverse theoretical traditions of the last half-century that underlie much of the work currently being undertaken in sociology. Theories include: symbolic interactionism, critical theory, structuralism, power and social control, neo-institutionalism, feminist theory, and cultural theory. Evaluation based on papers, memos and seminar participation. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: SOCI 526. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for SOCI 426 if student has credit for SOCI 526.

Long Title: RESEARCH SEMINAR: THE HOUSTON AREA SURVEY

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Continuation of the series of annual surveys on how Houston residents are reacting to the ongoing economic and demographic changes. Includes sampling procedures, questionnaire construction, interviewing, data analysis, and the logic and skills of survey research. Culminates in a research report that develops empirical hypotheses and tests their validity with the survey findings. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: SOCI 536. Recommended Prerequisite(s): SOCI 381 & SOCI 382. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for SOCI 436 if student has credit for SOCI 536.

Long Title: SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Analyzing educational inequality in the U.S. using concepts of educational equality and inequality and analysis of the factors that shape schooling outcomes. Addressing the role of students, families, neighborhoods, schools, school organizations and teachers. Special topics: education of immigrants, school segregation, accountability, higher education and the future of educational inequality. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: SOCI 537. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for SOCI 437 if student has credit for SOCI 337/SOCI 537.

Long Title: FAMILY INEQUALITY

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This is an intense, upper-level seminar focused on aspects of inequality concerning American families. We will discuss how well-known modes of inequality, such as race/ethnicity, gender, and social class, affect individual families, as well as how families serve as agents of inequality along these lines. Cross-list: SWGS 444.

Long Title: IMMIGRATION IN A GLOBAL WORLD

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Course compares early 20th century immigration to the US (and other countries) with more recent migratory flows. Topics will be related to the transnational identities of immigrants, ethnic discrimination, and the impact of immigrants on civic and religious institutions.

Long Title: SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT ASSESSMENT: METHODS AND MEASURES FOR ASSESSMENT

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course examines the measures and methods used to assess the economic, demographic, public services, fiscal and social impacts of large-scale developments such as power plants and other energy related developments as waste storage facilities, retail and warehouse trade developments and other changes impacting the environment. Instructor Permission Required.

Long Title: GENDER AND HEALTH

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will examine the relationship between gender and health, both physical and mental. We will begin the semester by examining issues related to gender and health in the U.S. We will spend the second half of the semester examining gender and health in an international context. Instructor Permission Required.Cross-list: SWGS 465.

Long Title: COMMUNITY BRIDGES TRAINING

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 1

Description: This course is the precursor for the spring course, SOCI 470, Inequality and Urban Life. Only students accepted into the Community Bridges Program may enroll in this course, where we do preparatory readings, trainings and workshops for the spring community internships. Instructor Permission Required.

Long Title: INEQUALITY AND URBAN LIFE

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 4

Description: This course combines classroom study with seven hours of fieldwork per week, working on projects with a local organization. We study how urban areas generate wealth and poverty, the experience of inequality, and issues of community development. Enrollment is by permission only. Instructor Permission Required.

Long Title: DATA ANALYSIS

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This graduate course introduces students to multivariate regression methods. It assumes previous coursework in elementary statistics and the use of STATA. We will cover regression analysis for continuous dependent variables and move in to intermediate and some advance analysis for categorical dependent variables, commonly referred to as generalized linear models. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: SOCI 583.

Long Title: IDENTITIES IN A DIVERSE WORLD

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: How have shifts in ethnic and race diversity affected the way we answer the question, "who am I?" "Identities in a Diverse World" is a seminar dedicated to answering this core question by exploring the new frontiers of understanding race and ethnicity. Topics include: Racial Passing, Transracial adoption, Whiteness, and Immigration. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: SOCI 585. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for SOCI 485 if student has credit for SOCI 585.

Long Title: DIRECTED HONORS RESEARCH

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Sociological research under faculty supervision. Includes first-semester review of relevant literature and the preparation of an outline for planned research, followed by second-semester research and the writing of an honors thesis. Open only to students in sociology honors program. Instructor Permission Required.

Long Title: DIRECTED HONORS RESEARCH

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Sociological research under faculty supervision. Includes first-semester review of relevant literature and preparation of outline for planned research, followed by second-semester research and the writing of an honors thesis. Open only to students in sociology honors program. Instructor Permission Required.

Long Title: SUMMER RESEARCH

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 1 TO 15

Description: Sociological research for graduate students in sociology. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: GRADUATE RELIGION SEMINAR

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A graduate level course that explores the theories, tools, concepts, and major debates that are central to the sociology of religion. Specific attention is devoted to religions practices, communities, and identities as well as how the sociology of religion relates to other sub-fields with the broader discipline. Instructor Permission Required.Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: SOCI 401. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for SOCI 501 if student has credit for SOCI 401.

Long Title: RACE AND FAMILY SEMINAR

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: What features of family life are marked by race? This course examines the question and gauges whether differences are a matter of culture or do they reflect issues of structure (or access to opportunities) and what are the implications for race/ethnic inequality? Topics include racial socialization and ethnic identity. Instructor Permission Required.Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: SOCI 402. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for SOCI 502 if student has credit for SOCI 402.

Long Title: TEACHING SOCIOLOGY

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 1

Description: This course will examine different approaches to teaching sociology at the university level, including core curriculum, a syllabus, and different forms of presenting material and evaluating students at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Sociology department faculty will discuss their particular approaches to teaching sociology. Instructor Permission Required.

Long Title: SOCIOLOGY OF GENDER

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An overview of the construction and reproduction of gender as a social category. Course will compare various conceptualizations of gender and discuss structural-, interactional-, and individual-level processes that reproduce gender inequality. Will also explore interactions of gender with other axes of social difference, such as sexuality, race/ethnicity and social class.

Long Title: ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Beginning with the theoretical frameworks for ethnographic and other qualitative research methods, the course will cover ethics, entry, observation, field notes, interviewing, data analysis, and writing reports. It will offer a hands-on approach combining lectures, research through lectures, readings, and fieldwork. Field projects can be conducted in group, classroom, campus, or community settings. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: SOCI 405. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for SOCI 505 if student has credit for SOCI 405.

Long Title: BASIC DEMOGRAPHIC TECHNIQUES

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The course provides a survey of basic demographic methods for assessing population change, fertility, mortality, and (im)migration and characteristics such with age, gender, race/ethnicity, household/family composition, marital status, economic, employment, and educational. Emphasis placed on the use of the methods in a variety of demographic and other settings. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: SOCI 406. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for SOCI 506 if student has credit for SOCI 406.

Long Title: RELIGION AND SOCIETY

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This seminar focuses on the ways in which religion is impacted by society, how society is shaped by religion, and the functions, uses, and meanings of religion in the modern world. We rely on the sociological perspective for understanding religion. Field work required.

Long Title: URBAN SYSTEMS

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Study of urban development, form, and heterogeneity; and the conditions of life associated with living in cities, their growth and purposes globally and locally.

Long Title: PERSPECTIVES ON RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE IN AN INTOLERANT AGE

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 1

Description: How do we understand religious pluralism in the midst of religious traditions that seem inherently at odds? Is religion more likely to bring peace or conflict? Through readings form the humanities and the social sciences and short lectures, this weekly undergraduate seminar will address these issues and more. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: SOCI 412. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for SOCI 512 if student has credit for SOCI 412.

Long Title: DEMOGRAPHY

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Study of the dynamics of population change. Includes demographic data sources, components of population change, mortality patterns, family planning, the measurement of migration flows, and population-economic models. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: SOCI 313. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for SOCI 513 if student has credit for SOCI 313.

Long Title: SOCIOLOGY OF FOOD

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course examines the production, distribution, and consumption of food as a medium to understand the relations between large social processes and the practices of everyday life. Topics include: food policy; commodification of food; food security and hunger; food, health and the body; cultural food practices; and alternative food systems. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: SOCI 423. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for SOCI 523 if student has credit for SOCI 423.

Long Title: RACE AND ETHNICITY SEMINAR

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Overview of the sociological study of race and ethnic relations; identifying the major contributions made to the sociological study of race and the ethnicity; and the major areas in need of new thinking and research . Focus on theoretical formulations, historical understandings, and causes and consequences of race and technical relations globally Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: SOCI 424. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for SOCI 524 if student has credit for SOCI 424.

Long Title: POPULATION HEALTH SEMINAR

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Course is a graduate level overview of population health, including the social determinates of morbidity and mortality, fertility and birth outcomes, health disparities, and contextual determinants of health. Course will cover major theoretical perspectives in the field, including fundamental cause theory, life course theory, and theories of stress and resilience. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: SOCI 425. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for SOCI 525 if student has credit for SOCI 425.

Long Title: CONTEMPORARY THEORY

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course builds foundational understanding of the diverse theoretical traditions of the last half-century that underlie much of the work currently being undertaken in sociology. Theories include: symbolic interactionism, critical theory, structuralism, power and social control, neo-institutionalism, feminist theory, and cultural theory. Evaluation based on papers, memos and seminar participation. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: SOCI 426. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for SOCI 526 if student has credit for SOCI 426.

Long Title: GIS FOR SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will focus on integrating spatial concepts into social science research using GIS software. Topics include: data acquisition, structure and management; principles of exploratory data analysis and cartographic visualization; and exploratory spatial data analysis (spatial auto correlation).

Long Title: RESEARCH SEMINAR: THE HOUSTON AREA SURVEY

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Continuation of the series of annual surveys on how Houston residents are reacting to the ongoing economic and demographic changes. Includes sampling procedures, questionnaire construction, interviewing, data analysis, and the logic and skills of survey research. Culminates in a research report that develops empirical hypotheses and tests their validity with the survey findings. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: SOCI 436. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for SOCI 536 if student has credit for SOCI 436.

Long Title: SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Analyzing educational inequality in the U.S. using concepts of educational equality and inequality and analysis of the factors that shape schooling outcomes. Addressing the role of students, families, neighborhoods, schools, school organizations and teachers. Special topics: education of immigrants, school segregation, accountability, higher education and the future of educational inequality. Instructor Permission Required.Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: SOCI 437. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for SOCI 537 if student has credit for SOCI 337/SOCI 437.

Long Title: QUALITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course examines qualitative methodological approaches for conducting social science research. Particularly, students will examine how qualitative methods allow social scientists to analyze the symbolic, religious, gendered, socio-economic, policies and historical forces and contexts that underlie and motivate beliefs, ideologies, practices and social change. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: SOCI 341. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for SOCI 541 if student has credit for SOCI 341.

Long Title: RACE, SOCIETY AND POPULATION CHANGE

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The U.S. population is more diverse than ever before - how did that happen? This course looks at how race and ethnicity patterns demographic processes. This course explores demographic techniques and collection of racial data. Topics include: Roots of racial diversity, collecting racial data, immigration and population growth, and population polices. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: SOCI 343. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for SOCI 543 if student has credit for SOCI 343.

Long Title: CLASSICAL THEORY

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course engages and analyzes the foundational texts of social theory from its classical roots to its contemporary branches. Students will explore theoretical approaches that inform current sociological research and during the course will examine social phenomena of particular interest to them from the perspective of two major theorists. Instructor Permission Required.

Long Title: QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Designed as a graduate level overview of quantitative research methods, with a focus on survey construction and design. The class moves through the stops of the research design process, and discusses mixed-methods and meta-analysis research. Class also includes a strong focus on writing, critique, peer review, and the publishing process. Instructor Permission Required.

Long Title: QUANTITATIVE DATA ANALYSIS I

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An introduction to statistics and data analysis for graduate students in sociology. Topics include descriptive statistics, visual representation of data, univariate and bivariate tests, as well as an introduction to multiple regression. Techniques for visualizing data will be discussed throughout. Familiarity with the statistical package Stata is assumed. Instructor Permission Required.

Long Title: QUANTITATIVE DATA ANALYSIS II

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course introduces students to multiple regression methods - a set of models that relate an outcome (also referred to as response or dependent) variable to a set of explanatory or independent variables. Students should have a previous coursework on descriptive statistics, bivariate regression, as well as familiarity with Stata. Instructor Permission Required.Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: SOCI 483.

Long Title: QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS III

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 1 TO 3

Prerequisite(s): SOCI 582 AND SOCI 583

Description: The course will give an overview of several advanced statistical techniques commonly used in Sociology.

Long Title: IDENTITIES IN A DIVERSE WORLD

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: How have shifts in ethnic and race diversity affected the way we answer the question, "who am I?" "Identities in a Diverse World" is a seminar dedicated to answering this core question by exploring the new frontiers of understanding race and ethnicity. Topics include: Racial Passing, Transracial adoption, Whiteness, and Immigration. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: SOCI 485. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for SOCI 585 if student has credit for SOCI 485.

Long Title: ADVANCED PRACTICUM

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 6

Description: Independent Research

Long Title: STATISTICAL PROGRAMMING

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 1

Description: This course will provide a thorough introduction to the statistical software package Stata. The emphasis will be on important skills for quantitative research that are not typically covered in statistics classes. Topics will include: data management, creating graphs, presentation of results, workflow, and documenting one's work. Instructor Permission Required.

Long Title: GRADUATE INDEPENDENT STUDY

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 3

Description: SECTION ONE: This course focuses on the sociology of global cities, especially on their comparative study. It examines their rise and development as central nodes in the world system, the means to their centrality and the threats to maintaining their status. A required end product of the course will be a publishable research paper using a comparative analysis of global cities. SECTION TWO: This course explores the relationship between social factors and health, illness, and mortality, with a heavy emphasis on equalitative experiences of illness, the doctor-patient relationship, and the socialization of medical students and new doctors. SECTION THREE: This course examines the causes and consequences of societal stratification in different institutional spheres. Students will be expected to examine key theoretical perspectives as well as understand and critique different methodological approaches to the study of social stratification. SECTION FOUR: Designed to familiarize students with the historical and contemporary theoretical explanations of the formation of, identification with, and implications of racial and ethnic categories in the United States and globally. Additionally, this course will cover empirical studies that investigate the perpetuation of racial and ethnic inequality in comparative, international perspective. SECTION FIVE: This course focuses on the mechanisms that lead to and/or perpetuate marginalization of social groups (e.g. racial, socioeconomic, religious, etc…) in urban areas. In particular, this course examines policies (i.e. public housing, cash welfare, corporation tax breaks, zoning laws) that increase or decrease the generational marginalization of groups. SECTION SIX: This course will delve extensively into criminology. The course will cover four broad areas: 1) how crime is imagined and portrayed, 2) empirical patterns of crime, 3) theories of crime causation and victimization, and 4) societal responses to crime, encompassing studies of social control, policing, the legal system, and punishment. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: CLASSICAL THEORY II

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The student will go beyond the basic graduate level theory course, doing advanced readings in theories, related to a substantive area in which the student concentrates.

Long Title: QUANTITATIVE METHODS

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The student will do advanced work in an area of statistical interest with a faculty member who specializes in the techniques.

Long Title: DIRECTED READING IN URBAN SOCIOLOGY

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This reading course covers foundational readings in the area of urban sociology. Instructor Permission Required.

Long Title: MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION FOR GENERALIZED LINEAR MODELS

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Explores useful statistical models beyond standard linear regression. Topics covered are logit and probit models for both binary and ordinal dependent variables, even count models, models for heteroskedastic regressions, and more. Maximum likelihood unifies these models by providing a single, coherent approach to estimation and about how data are generated. Instructor Permission Required.

Long Title: NON-THESIS GRADUATE RESEARCH

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 1 TO 9

Description: Individual research not for thesis credit. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: THESIS RESEARCH

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 3

Description:  Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: GRADUATE INDEPENDENT STUDY

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 9

Description: Sociological independent study under faculty supervision. Only open to graduate students. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: PROFESSIONALIZATION WORKSHOP

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 1

Description: This professionalization workshop is designed to introduce graduate students to professionalization topics such as: giving a conference presentation, writing a fellowship or grant proposal, and the reviewing process of journals. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: DISSERTATION RESEARCH

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 1 TO 15

Description: Dissertation research credit. Repeatable for Credit.