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department Sociology (X) |
WF 2.30-3.45 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 37) 12/18/2009 F 2.00 Areas So Permission of instructor required
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TTh 1.00-2.15 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 26) 12/15/2009 T 2.00 Areas So Meets during reading period Comparison of major algorithm-centered approaches to the analysis of complex social network and organizational data. Fundamental principles for developing a disciplined and coherent perspective on the effects of modern information technology on societies worldwide. Software warfare and algorithm sabotage; blockmodeling and privacy; legal, ethical, and policy issues.
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MW 9.00-10.15 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 32) 12/12/2009 S 9.00 Areas So
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TTh 11.35-12.25 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 24) 12/15/2009 T 9.00 Areas So An introduction to the political economy of dictatorship and democracy, economic growth, and varieties of economic systems around the world and throughout history.
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TTh 10.30-11.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas So Major works of social thought from the beginning of the modern era through the 1920s. Attention to social and intellectual contexts, conceptual frameworks and methods, and contributions to contemporary social analysis. Writers include Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Montesquieu, Adam Smith, Marx, Weber, and Durkheim. Open to all students without prerequisite.
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TTh 2.30-3.45 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas So Permission of instructor required Theory and practice of survey design, including conceptualization, measurement issues, sample design, questionnaire construction, interviewing, data analysis, publication of results, and limitations and ethical aspects of survey research.
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W 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas So Permission of instructor required Overview of the methods and advantages of a historical approach to the study of politics. Readings on specific methodological themes and problems paired with works on substantive issues in political science. Discussion of a wide range of texts, from classics of political science and sociology to recent comparative historical work.
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T 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas So Permission of instructor required The relationship between India?s inequalities in health and society. Inequalities in society and medicine, both natural and constructed, that influence health outcomes; health disparities that shape social and medical institutions and relationships; and research that evaluates and proposes health and social policy models. The prerequisite for intermediate courses is one introductory Sociology course or permission of the instructor.
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MW 4.30-5.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas So Critical assessment of social science research and its uses in public policy and law. Case studies illustrate interrelated themes: what social science research tells us about a problem; frameworks used in the legal/political discourse to address a question; and how social science is used in these frameworks to create law and policy. The prerequisite for intermediate courses is one introductory Sociology course or permission of the instructor.
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W 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 36) 12/14/2009 M 2.00 Areas So Permission of instructor required An introduction to sociological perspectives on social movements and collective action, exploring civil rights, student movements, global justice, nationalism, and radical fundamentalism. The prerequisite for intermediate courses is one introductory Sociology course or permission of the instructor.
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1 HTBA Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas So Population and society in China, Japan, and South Korea. Emphasis on China, especially on social and demographic changes in the past. The prerequisite for intermediate courses is one introductory Sociology course or permission of the instructor.
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M 3.30-5.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas So Permission of instructor required
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M 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 36) 12/14/2009 M 2.00 Areas So Permission of instructor required A sociological analysis of the origins, development, and reactions surrounding deviance in contemporary society. Group labeling, stigma, power, and competing notions of propriety. The prerequisite for intermediate courses is one introductory Sociology course or permission of the instructor.
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TTh 9.25-10.15 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas So The emergence and evolution of various forms of protest, including strikes, demonstrations, and revolutions. Case studies include the civil rights movement, the women's movement in the United States, and social movements in Central America, South Africa, and elsewhere. Theoretical approaches range from ethnographic to mathematical models. The prerequisite for intermediate courses is one introductory Sociology course or permission of the instructor.
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W 9.25-11.15 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Skills WR Areas So Permission of instructor required Empire as a territorial organization of political power. Comparison of empires in historical periods from antiquity to European overseas expansion in the fifteenth through twentieth centuries, and in different geographic contexts in Africa, Asia, and Europe. Economic, political, and cultural theories of imperialism, colonialism, and decolonization. Advanced Sociology courses are open to students who have completed one intermediate course and any other specified requirement, or by permission of the instructor. Preference is given to Sociology majors in their junior and senior years.
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Th 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 26) 12/15/2009 T 2.00 Areas So Permission of instructor required Religious nationalism past and present, East and West; the normative issues the phenomenon raises. Religious roots of Western nationalism; nationalistic propensities of different religious traditions; conditions under which religious nationalism turns violent; and whether religion, nationalism, pluralism, and democracy are compatible. Advanced Sociology courses are open to students who have completed one intermediate course and any other specified requirement, or by permission of the instructor. Preference is given to Sociology majors in their junior and senior years.
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T 3.30-5.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas So Permission of instructor required A study of social and economic inequalities based on race, gender, and social class; such inequalities as a dimension of individual life chances and life aspirations as well as of the structure and organization of societies. Discussion of theoretical, political, empirical, and methodological issues. Advanced Sociology courses are open to students who have completed one intermediate course and any other specified requirement, or by permission of the instructor. Preference is given to Sociology majors in their junior and senior years.
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T 9.25-11.15 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 22) 12/12/2009 S 2.00 Areas Hu, So Permission of instructor required Normative and sociological theories of civil society and its role in democracy, with special attention to cultural discourses. The 1960s civil rights movements, the 1980s gay and lesbian movement, and more recent controversies over immigration; the role of mass media; power and the 2008 presidential election; issues of global civil society. Advanced Sociology courses are open to students who have completed one intermediate course and any other specified requirement, or by permission of the instructor. Preference is given to Sociology majors in their junior and senior years.
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W 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas So Permission of instructor required Genocide and violent ethnic conflict in the past fifty years, including contributory historical and political elements. Consideration of ways to prevent or resolve such conflicts. Identity, religion, class, and nationhood as related to violence and conflict. Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia used as case studies to develop an analytical framework. Advanced Sociology courses are open to students who have completed one intermediate course and any other specified requirement, or by permission of the instructor. Preference is given to Sociology majors in their junior and senior years.
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W 3.30-5.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas So Permission of instructor required The rise of nationalism in the Maghreb (or Arab West) and Mashriq (or Arab East). Introduction to major debates about nationalism; the influence of transnational (pan-Islamic and pan-Arab) ideologies, ethnicity, gender, and religion. Case studies from North Africa (Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia) and the Middle East (Syria/Lebanon, Jordan, and Iraq). Advanced Sociology courses are open to students who have completed one intermediate course and any other specified requirement, or by permission of the instructor. Preference is given to Sociology majors in their junior and senior years.
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1 HTBA Fall 2009 No regular final examination Permission of instructor required Individual study for qualified juniors and seniors under faculty supervision. To register for this course, each student must submit a written plan of study approved by the adviser to the director of undergraduate studies.
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3 HTBA Fall 2009 No regular final examination Permission of instructor required Independent library-based research under faculty supervision. To register for this course, students must submit a written plan of study approved by a faculty adviser to the director of undergraduate studies no later than the end of registration period in the term in which the senior essay is to be written. The course meets biweekly, beginning on Tuesday, September 8, in the fall term and Tuesday, January 12, in the spring term.
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T 5.00-7.00p Fall 2009 No regular final examination Permission of instructor required Independent research under faculty direction, involving empirical research and resulting in a substantial paper. Workshop meets biweekly to discuss various stages of the research process and to share experiences in gathering and analyzing data. The first meeting is on Tuesday, September 15, in the fall term and Tuesday, January 19, in the spring term.
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SOCY 502 01 (13991) W 9.25-11.15 Fall 2009
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SOCY 503 01 (11195) /PLSC522/SOCY168/PLSC459 W 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 This seminar provides an introduction to historical explanation. It covers a wide range of topics, from the classics of political science and sociology up to recent comparative historical work. At each meeting we pair up readings on specific methodological themes and problems with substantive works.
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