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110 Introduction to Sociology  and Anthropology
An inquiry into the social (group rather than individual) bases of human practices and human life: an unfamiliar but revealing perspective on the familiar world. Limited to first- and second-year students.

112 Chicago and Sociology
Classic, early, and contemporary studies of Chicago supplemented by visits to the neighborhoods examined in these investigations.

116 Self and Social Interaction
This seminar focuses on social interaction by gauging the nature of action when in the presence of others. The students will gain a critical distance from their social surroundings by framing and studying what they often take for granted. Students will design and conduct their own experiments.

170 Contemporary Social Issues  (Offered Less Frequently)
How do social conditions and trends come to be identified as “problems”? What are the implications of defining something (or some group) as a “problem”? This course examines recognized social issues including colonialism, social inequality, race, racism and poverty, alienation, and technological advances that are altering the occupational structure of our society.

201 Ancient Greece: Life, Thought,  and the Arts
See Program in Greece and Turkey under Undergraduate Curriculum for course description. (Cross-listed as Classical Studies and Greek Civilizations 201. Meets GEC Cultural Diversity Requirement.)

202 Greece in the Bronze Age
See Program in Greece and Turkey under Undergraduate Curriculum for course description. Offered only in Greece and Turkey. (Cross-listed as Art 202, Classical Studies 202, and Greek Civilizations 202. Meets GEC Cultural Diversity Requirement.)

203 Greece in the Classical-Roman Ages
See Program in Greece and Turkey under Undergraduate Curriculum for course description. Offered only in Greece and Turkey. (Cross-listed as Art 203, Classical Studies 203, and Greek Civilizations 203. Meets GEC Cultural Diversity Requirement.)

204 Greece in the Byzantine-Medieval Ages
See Program in Greece and Turkey under Undergraduate Curriculum for course description. Offered only in Greece and Turkey. (Cross-listed as Art 204, Classical Studies 204, and Greek Civilizations 204. Meets GEC Cultural Diversity Requirement.)

210 Principles of Social Organization
This course examines patterns that occur in human interaction—at both micro and macro scales. Focus is placed upon a process understanding of society. Topics include the generation of a shared reality, production of culture, types of relationships and their key features, predictable patterns of organization and their internal dynamics, as well as social universals such as conflict, change, and resource allocation. Prerequisite: Sociology and Anthropology 110. Enrollment priority given to departmental majors and minors. (Meets GEC Cultural Diversity Requirement.)

211 Ethnography: Cultures and Texts
This course explores ethnography as the textual representation of cultures and cultural communities and the use of ethnography in cultural anthropology as the privileged mode of communication, investigation, knowing, and representing cultural realities. Ethnographies studied include those produced in different national traditions, those created in different historical moments, and those describing distinct "cultures" across the globe and human history. Ethnography is understood to occur in a variety of media, including visual and performative texts. Prerequisite: Sociology and Anthropology 110 or any anthropology course. (Meets GEC Cultural Diversity Requirement.)

212 Introduction to Chinese Culture  and Society
This course, designed for students with little knowledge of China, explores the recent past and evolving present of Chinese social roles, values, and quality of life. (Cross-listed as Asian Studies 212. Meets GEC Cultural Diversity Requirement.)

215 Introduction to Japanese Thought  and Society
This course will serve as an introduction to Japanese thought and society. This will include an historical overview, modern-day culture, and an examination of Japan’s interactions with neighboring countries, both in the past and today. The course will provide a wide range of topics including economy, family, religious practice, and cultural changes that have occurred in the process of modernization. (Cross-listed as Asian Studies 217. Meets GEC Cultural Diversity Requirement.)

216  Introduction to Archaeology
This course aims to familiarize students with one of the sub-fields of the discipline of anthropology: archaeology. As an offering that will require students to frequently travel to the Field Museum and gain access to more than 30,000,000 archaeological and anthropological objects, this course will offer hands-on training in theories and practice of the discipline of archaeology as well as the arts related to archives of anthropological collections. Lectures, seminar discussions and lab work on the premises of the Field Museum will be the main pedagogical tools in this course. (Cross-listed as Classical Studies 216.)

217 Sociology of Work  (Offered Less Frequently)
The meaning of work, with emphasis on sociological concepts such as stratification, power, quality of life, and organization in the social world. Focus will be both on cross-cultural comparisons of the social definition of work and on the organization of work in the United States including types of occupations, power distribution within occupations, and changes in the workforce. Participant-observer studies will provide comparisons of the work worlds of  pink-, blue-, and white-collar workers. Prerequisite: Sociology and Anthropology 110. (Meets GEC Cultural Diversity Requirement.)

220  Domains of Human Evidence
Anthropology literally translates to the study of man, and the discipline takes humankind as its object.  This course explores the four distinct ways in which anthropologists have sought to understand humans:
1) as animals whose potential and limits are set by their physiological qualities (physical anthropology)
2) as material workers who shape and are shaped by their environment and who leave their mark on the landscape (archaeology)
3) as cultural creatures who collectively produce ways of interacting with and imposing meaning on the world and one another (socio/cultural anthropology)
4) as language bearers who mediate their experience with complex grammars and symbol systems (linguistic anthropology).
These domains of evidence are key to developing an in depth understanding of what anthropology can do, and this course is foundational for upper level anthropology courses.  Prerequisite: Sociology and Anthropology 110. (Meets GEC Cultural Diversity Requirement.)

221 Peoples and Cultures of Modern Africa (Offered Less Frequently)
Introduction to contemporary rural and urban society in sub-Saharan Africa, drawing on materials from all major regions of the subcontinent. Particular emphasis will be on problems of rural development, rural-urban migration, and structural changes of economic, political, and social formations in the various new nations. (Cross-listed as African American Studies 221. Meets GEC Cultural Diversity Requirement.)

230 Anthropology of Sports
Ranging from innocuous to deadly serious, sports play a role in many cultures and arguably function as an element in human development. This course begins with an exploration of the place of play in human experience and broadens in scope to finish with the geo-political implications of sport. We will take into consideration both participation and spectatorship, tying both into concerns of identity, nationalism, economics and globalization. Students should be prepared to follow news of at least one sport throughout the semester. (Meets GEC Cultural Diversity Requirement.)

231 Histories and Cultures of Latin America
This course introduces students to modern  historical, ethnohistorical, and anthropological approaches to the indigenous populations of Latin America. The course will focus on the conflict and crisis that have characterized the relationship between the native inhabitants of the New World and the Old World immigrants and their descendants whose presence has forever changed the Americas. This conflict, and the cultures that emerged from it, will be traced both historically (starting with the “conquest”) and regionally, focusing on four distinct areas: central Mexico; Guatemala and Chiapas; the Andes; and the Amazon. (Cross-listed as Latin American Studies 231. Meets GEC Cultural Diversity Requirement.)

240 Deviance
How society defines deviants—its outcasts and outsiders—and how the people so defined respond to this categorization; the nature of normal and abnormal, legal and illegal. Do these categories have absolute moral meaning, or do they always depend on the particular society and era in which they are defined? Topics to be addressed include stigma and stereotyping, cross-cultural variations in gender roles, the status of the inmate, deviance as blocked opportunity, and the political mobilization of outsiders. Prerequisite: Sociology and Anthropology 110. (Meets GEC Cultural Diversity Requirement.)

242 Maya Cultures and Histories
Survey of the Maya peoples and cultures of North and Central America. The main goal is to develop an extensive and critical understanding about contemporary Maya. Themes include their multiple and heterogeneous cultures, communities, and histories; political organizations and relations to other communities; economic structure and positions within encompassing economies of regional, national, and international scope; cultural survival; religious pluralisms and ritual. (Cross-listed as Latin American Studies 242. Meets GEC Cultural Diversity Requirement.)

243 Andes Cultures and Histories
This course is designed to introduce students  to the Andes as a culture region, with particular attention to the histories and cultures of the indigenous peoples of the Andes. As such the course will focus on the cultures of the highland peoples of Peru. (Cross-listed as Latin American Studies 243. Meets GEC Cultural Diversity Requirement.)

244 Anthropology of Education
For the anthropologist, education is the mechanism of socialreproduction, a strategy not limited to schooling but in fact encompassing a person's entire life. For much of the world, the privileging of schooling as a site of education has had real ramifications on the possibility of maintaining cultural forms that go against the pressures of globalization and capitalism. This course opens with a broad consideration of education before focusing on schooling as the preferred institutional form of education under early 21st century globalism. Our questions will include both how schooling operates to maintain existing social structures and power relations and the possibilities - and consequences - of schools as a site of change. (Cross-listed as Education 244. Meets GEC Cultural Diversity Requirement.)

245 Medical Anthropology
This course approaches various aspects of medicine and disease from an anthropological perspective and from outside the framework of standard biomedical concepts. We will look at how experiences of illness and health are culturally, rather than biologically, constructed. A second objective is to compare the belief systems and medical practices of several specific Western and non-Western societies. In carrying out these cross-cultural comparisons, we will focus on qualitative research and read several ethnographic case studies.  (Prerequisite:  Sociology and Anthropology 110.)

246 Anthropology of Communication
This course provides a theoretical and ethnographic overview of past, current and future directions of anthropological research on the mass media. The primary course goal is to develop ethnographic and critical techniques for studying mass media production, distribution and consumption or reception. We will work toward this goal by studying issues as diverse as political and economic pressures on the selectivity of media representation, the social, professional and institutional contexts of media production and the relationship between new and old media and their enabling technologies. We will pay particular attention to the social relationships and cultural identities which are invoked in and evoked by the (re)productions of the media. This year, the course has three central foci: (1) the relationship of western and non-western cultural identities, aesthetics, orders and processes to the technological capabilities of mass media like video, television and film; (2) the historical development of mass media technologies and of contemporary institutional contexts of mass media with respect to the negotiation of national identities and moralities; and (3), the effect of state and corporate powers on the operation of the western market-capitalist free press. (Meets GEC Cultural Diversity Requirement.)

247 Anthropology of Pacific Islands
This course is intended to provide an ethnographic and historical overview of classic and contemporary directions of anthropological research in the eastern Pacific. The primary course goal is to develop n ethnographic and historical appreciation for Polynesian culture at the three points of the Polynesian triangle. We will work toward this goal by a focused examination of the cultures of particular island groups in the eastern Pacific. En route, students will be introduced to issues as diverse as Polynesian voyaging and myths, and the ways that traditional cultural beliefs and practices and the social institutions in which they coalesce such as chieftanship, kinship and adoption are subject to historical change. We will pay particular attention to the distinct expressions of social relationships and cultural forms that developed under varying conditions across the region.  (Meets GEC Cultural Diversity Requirement.)

248 Introduction to Biological and Physical Anthropology
This course will introduce students to the discipline of biological/physical anthropology.  The course will look at both the commonalities that hominids, and particularly humans, share with other biological organisms and idiosyncratic phenomena that make the human species unique.  Students will first be introduced to the evolutionary and biological mechanisms that have guided the emergence of the human lineage and to the practices of taxonomy and phylogeny which inform the study of human biological ancestry. Next, the class will focus on the study of modern primates, humanity’s closest living relatives.  We will then move to the particular evolutionary history of hominids that produced modern humans.  Through this course students will become conversant with the overarching questions and biological techniques employed in the study of both ancient humans and modern human variation. This course will directly engage students in anthropological work in both reading and practice and teach the methods used by anthropologists in their fieldwork.

250 Anthropology of Globalization
This course is an introduction to the anthropological study of  contemporary diversity of human cultures.  In the process of studying the peoples of the world, we will investigate the "anthropological perspective" as it has developed in recent years in response to the increasing significance of globalization in local cultures. By better understanding the values and beliefs of members of other cultures, we will be able to gain a more insightful understanding of our own culture and come to better appreciate the ways in which our own culture subtly shapes our perceptions of the world. Concepts of race, ethnicity, and identity will be considered, as well as the theme of communication across cultural boundaries.   (Meets GEC Cultural Diversity Requirement.)

253 Family and Kinship
This course focuses on family and kinship in cross-cultural perspective. We will look at families in their social and cultural context and ask what relationships exist between family forms, practices, and values and the economic system, political organization, religions, and cultures of the larger community. We will also ask what the sources of love and support, as well as conflict and tension, are within families and among kin, and we will question why family forms and ideal family types change over time. (Cross-listed as Women’s and Gender Studies 253. Meets GEC Cultural Diversity Requirement.)

271 Technology and Human Values
Conditions and processes of industrialization in the Western world; problems related to economic development in emerging nations; impact of industry on lifeways of modern humans. Prerequisite: Sociology and Anthropology 110. (Cross-listed as Environmental Studies 271. Meets GEC Cultural Diversity Requirement.)

272 Popular Culture in Latin America
This course is designed to familiarize students with the study of “popular culture” in Latin America. We will begin by examining the meaning of the term “popular culture”—what does it include? What does it exclude? We will then look at a number of studies by anthropologists of Latin American popular cultural forms, attending to the social uses of comic books, sports, television, music, dance, movies, etc., in the project of defining, politicizing, or depoliticizing Latin American identities. (Cross-listed as Latin American Studies 272. Meets GEC Cultural Diversity Requirement.)

275 American Celebrations: Chicago Performance and Alternative Culture
(Cross-listed as American Studies 200 and Theater 285.  Meets GEC Cultural Diversity Requirement.) 

280 Gender, Culture, and Society
Theories concerning the acquisition of sex-typed behavior; social and biological influences on the roles of males and females in the twentieth- century United States as well as in other cultures. Feminist and anti-feminist perspectives. Images of future lifestyles and implications for social policy. Prerequisite: Sociology and Anthropology 110. (Cross-listed as Women’s and Gender Studies 280.  Meets GEC Cultural Diversity Requirement.)

281 Gender Issues in China and Taiwan
We will cover a wide range of gender issues in Chinese culture in both mainland China and Taiwan. The course will begin by addressing roles of women and men in traditional China, trace changes in women’s and men’s roles in the 1970s and 1980s, and conclude by looking at gender issues in the 1990s and beyond. The class will consist of lectures and discussions, supplemented with films. (Cross-listed as Asian Studies 281 and Women’s and Gender Studies 281.  Meets GEC Cultural Diversity Requirement.)

285 Social Structure and Culture  through Film
This course combines a historical survey of  narrative films and an overview of international schools of filmmaking and couches them in a sociological framework. The questions of treatment of the other (races and nations), totalitarianism, revolution, militarism, deviance, various views of human nature, and utopias and distopias portrayed in science fiction movies will be addressed. Prerequisite: Sociology and Anthropology 110. Required: an additional weekly lab session for viewing movies. (Meets GEC Cultural Diversity Requirement.)

290 Social Problems and Social Policy
The course tracks the shifting sociological understanding of social problems in the United States and the implications for research and policy. Specifically, emphasis is placed on a balance between theoretical understandings and empirical investigation on topics ranging from family to the environment. Prerequisite: Sociology and Anthropology 110. Enrollment priority given to departmental majors and minors.

302 Sexuality and Society
This course is a cross-cultural examination of perceptions and practices of sex and sexuality. We will begin with a brief overview of some archaeological findings and their implications, after which we will go on to address sexual practices in history and modern times both in the United States and other areas of the world. We will study economic, cultural, political, and religious  influences on sexual thought and practice. (Cross-listed as Women’s and Gender Studies 302. Meets GEC Cultural Diversity Requirement.)

310 Social Research: Quantitative Methods
This course provides an introduction to the relationship between theoretical models and empirical investigations of social action. The focus of the course is the selection of a problem for investigation, choice of appropriate quantitative methodology, design and implementation of a social research project, and final data analysis. Data analysis techniques include multivariate analysis, elaboration modeling and social science computer skills using the SPSS program. Recommended for junior year. Prerequisite: Sociology and Anthropology 110 with a grade of C or better. Co-requisite: Either Sociology and Anthropology 210 or 220. Required: an additional weekly lab session.

315 The Social Ethics of Energy Production and Use
(Cross-listed as Environmental Studies 315 and Philosophy 315.)

320  Social Research: Qualitative Methods
Qualitative methods are used by both anthropologists and sociologists for working in small, bounded communities.  The primary methodology of qualitative researchers, ethnography, tends to be more associated with anthropology as a result of disciplinary history.  The writing of ethnographic "thick description" is part art and part science, a methodology most easily learned by doing. This course is designed to give students exposure to the ins, outs and ethics of ethnographic research methods and to help students develop a sense of when such methods are appropriate. Course work will include fieldwork of various types culminating in research projects determined by the students. Recommended for junior year. Prerequisite: Sociology and Anthropology 110 with a grade of C or better. Co-requisite: Either Sociology and Anthropology 210 or 220. Required: an additional weekly lab session.

322 Sociology of Islam
This course uses the discipline of historical sociology to explore the origins of Islam and the reasons it took the shape it did during its formative years in mid seventh century.  It will continue to trace the development of Islam in a variety of different cultural environment.  Finally we will deal with the encounter of Islam and the modern world and the formation of fundamentalism, national Islamism and the secular, reform tendencies in that religion.  (Meets GEC Cultural Diversity Requirement.)

330 Truth, Lies and Secrets
This course explores veracity, mendacity and obfuscation as cultural practices. As works across the social sciences over the last century amply demonstrate, truth-telling, lying and communicative deception are neither universal nor natural human practices. Rather, they are particular cultural acts within historically and socially bounded communicative cultures. This course draws on rich traditions in the sociology of knowledge, beginning with Simmel and Shils, and works across the history of anthropology from gossip, to witchcraft, to public secrecy in nuclear testing to explore cultural variability in understandings of the significance of truths, lies and the role(s) they play in social processes across time and space. With Steven Shapin we will explore the social history of truth in the emergence of western laboratory science in the 17th century and, using the instructor's fieldwork, why it is not un-civil to lie in French Polynesia where it is difficult to find a word that can simply be glossed as 'to lie'.  (Meets GEC Cultural Diversity Requirement.)

335   Racism and the African American Experience
(Cross-listed as African American Studies 335 and American Studies 335.  Meets GEC Cultural Diversity Requirement.)

350 Sociology of Knowledge
This course investigates the patterns whereby social organization shapes both the content and structure of knowledge. The connection between knowledge and society is reciprocal: we will observe how a new religious message, scientific insight, or technological development alters the social order. The sociology of knowledge also involves the investigation of consciousness and belief: We will investigate the relationships between mental phenomena and social organization—how, for example, “false consciousness” is constructed in relations of exploitation and how ideologies and stereotypes shape what is perceived.

352 Race, Love, and Conquest  (Offered Less Frequently)
This course will explore the connections among race, gender, sex, and class through the idea of love. We will examine how love, between the cross-categories of race, class, sex, and age, is fraught with ambivalence and danger. Through postcolonial and feminist theories, we will learn about power relationships that support and solidify power hierarchies and represent the naturalness of certain Euro-, male-, and bourgeois-centric desires and domination. We are concerned with both love stories and stories of tabooed love that result in failures, affairs, and insinuated love. We will discuss how ideologies of love are used to effect certain kinds of relationships within colonial and postcolonial power dynamics. Prerequisite: Sociology and Anthropology 110. (Meets GEC Cultural Diversity Requirement.)

361 Cultural Anthropology
An introduction to cultural and social anthropology that integrates theoretical rationales with ethnographic accounts of societies in various parts of the world. Explores major trends in the history of the discipline through selected topics including the concepts of society and culture, racial theories, ethnographic method, structural/functional analyses of socio-religious, socio-political, and socio-economic systems, and the role of anthropology in social activism. Prerequisite: Sociology and Anthropology 110 for freshmen and sophomores. (Meets GEC Cultural Diversity Requirement.)

362  Love in a Time of Capitalism
Most of us are familiar with the idea that romantic love plays a different role in the contemporary world than it did at other times and the idea that love manifests in different ways across cultures.  Rather than attempt a survey of all the possible manifestations of romantic love, this course aims to explore how "love" features into our understandings of human interaction in the 21st century, particularly in the United States.  We will be particularly focusing on the contemporary American notion that love and money are opposing forces.  Our first goal will be to identify at least some of the tropes of love that are in current circulation.  We will then explore the potential social consequences of those tropes, including the ways in which such tropes are passed on and reproduced across generations and the possibility of commodifying and "selling" certain tropes as the "right" way to be in love.  Throughout the course, we will collect love stories, and our final task of the semester will be to compare our theoretical and media derived understandings of romantic love to its manifestations in people's lives. Prerequisites: SOAN 110 and 220 or consent of instructor. (Cross-listed as American Studies 362.)

363 Globalization, Modernity, Culture
Do we live in a “global village”?  Do we have a global culture?  Is the world becoming a more homogeneous place or a more heterogeneous one?  This course considers the various scholarly perspectives on these issues, and focuses on the analysis of popular culture and media as a means of gaining answers to them.  Of particular interest will be the way in which the flow of culture across borders changes our understanding of national and individual identity formation.  Course materials will be taken from scholarship in anthropology and cultural studies, and a substantial course time will be devoted to the analysis of primary media, particularly film.  Prerequisite: Sociology and Anthropology 110 or by permission.  (Meets GEC Cultural Diversity Requirement.)

365  The Chicago School and Beyond
The Chicago School of Urban Sociology produced some of the most memorable studies of urban life in the 1920s and 1930s. The influence of the Chicago School upon subsequent theory in the areas of deviance, race, urbanization, class, immigration and social control is enormous. This course traces contemporary social theories regarding urban life back to their sources in Chicago. Substantial field study.  Prerequisite: SOAN110 Introduction to Sociology and Anthropology or permission of the instructor.

370 Social Inequality  (Offered Less Frequently)
A comparative study of various forms of social inequality. Analysis of inequality (e.g., sex,  age, education, competence, wealth, power) in different forms of social organization from small, intimate groups to large-scale social systems. Theoretical approaches concerning the emergence and persistence of hierarchies. Prerequisite: Sociology and Anthropology 110.

373 Chinese and Japanese Religion  in Practice
The religious orthodoxy of Chinese and Japanese religions is even more disparate from their practice than comparable religions in the West. This course will provide a sociological and anthropological view of the practice of Chinese and Japanese religions in mainland China, Taiwan, and Japan in the past and present. Analyses will include practices of the major Chinese religions (Buddhism, Confucianism, and Daoism), folk religious practices (ancestor worship, sorcery, and appeasing ghosts), and relatively new religious influences such as Islam and various branches of Christianity. (Cross-listed as Asian Studies 373.  Meets GEC Cultural Diversity Requirement.)

375 History of Social Thought
This course will examine some of the classical sources of social thought both in the East and the West. Texts by Plato, Aristotle, St. Augustine, Aquinas, Alfarabi, Confucius, authors of the Vedas, Machiavelli, Hobbes, and Rousseau will be examined for the seeds of questions that were later to grow into the thicket of sociological problematics. Extensive weekly readings of original sources will be the basis of class discussions. Prerequisite: Sociology and Anthropology 110. (Meets GEC Cultural Diversity Requirement.)

380 Political Sociology
Analysis of political structure and processes in varying types of societies including traditional preindustrial, developing, and modern societies. Theories of Hegel, Lukacs, Spencer, Weber, and Arendt on the evolution of the state and critiques of authoritarian, totalitarian, and democratic political systems. Social bases of the distribution of power and political participation. Prerequisite: Sociology and Anthropology 110.

385 Intellectuals and Society
What is the role of intellectuals and the intelligentsia in the classical, medieval, and modern Occident? What characterizes people of knowledge in these and non-Western civilizations? A cross-cultural comparison of the development of intellectual elites in various arenas including Asia, the Islamic world, and Eastern and Western European and American cultures. Prerequisite: Sociology and Anthropology 110.

390 Sociology of Religion
This seminar starts with major classical theories of sociology of religion including those of secularization and privatization of religion in the modern world. Then we shall examine the relevant events of the past quarter of the century, namely the sudden explosion of politicized and highly public religions in the Western and the non-Western worlds. The existing sociological literature didn’t anticipate the current significance of religion and this tension is expected to generate interesting debates in this seminar. Special attention will be given to a comparative study of public religions in Western countries (e.g., Brazil, Poland, Spain, and the United States) and in the Middle East (Egypt, Iran, Saudi Arabia). (Cross-listed as Religion 390.)

395 Law, Culture, and Society
This course will examine the social organization of legal institutions and the relationship between law and the structure of society. Specifically, the course considers the nature and origins of law from the viewpoint of classical social theorists and anthropological studies of customary law. The course also emphasizes various aspects of the American legal system: the social structure of the legal profession, courts and dispute resolution, law as an instrument of social control, and the relationship between law and social change. (Meets GEC Cultural Diversity Requirement.)

410 Contemporary Social Theory
This seminar is designed as an advanced introduction to the major theoretical developments in contemporary sociological theory. Topics include the Chicago School, the Frankfurt School, Structuralism, Symbolic Interactionism, Deconstructionism, Feminism, and Queer Theory. The contributions of Parson, Merton, Blumer, Goffman, Bourdieu, and Foucault constitute significant areas of discussion.

451 Internship

453 Tutorial

454 Research, Independent Study

480 Senior Seminar: Social Explanation  and Theory
Exposition, comparison, and appraisal of major schools of thought in the history of social inquiry; contexts of explanation and problems of systematic theory construction in social science. Prerequisites: Sociology and Anthropology 110 and 210.

490 Senior Thesis