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List of All Undergraduate Sociology Courses

 

GENERAL INTRODUCTIONS TO SOCIOLOGY

  • 10002 Understanding Societies
  • 20002 Understanding Societies
  • 12002 Understanding Societies Tutorial
  • 10033 Introduction to Social Problems
  • 20033 Introduction to Social Problems

THEORY

  • 23901 Power & Identity
  • 30910 Environmental Sociology

COURSES REQUIRED FOR MAJORS

  • 30900 Foundations of Sociological Theory
  • 30902 Methods of Sociological Research
  • 30903 Statistics for Sociological Research
  • 33090 Sociology Proseminar

CLASS, GENDER, RACE, ETHNICITY

  • 20081 Some other Mess
  • 20810 Gender Roles and Violence
  • 20838 Social Inequality
  • 30007 Race and Ethnicity in American Politics
  • 30806 Race and Ethnicity
  • 30841 Gender & Society
  • 30846 Today's Gender Roles
  • 33838 Social Stratification in the U.S.
  • 40055 Race & Ethnicity
  • 43839 Unequal America

CRIMINOLOGY, DEVIANCE, SOCIAL CONTROL

  • 20732 Introduction to Criminology
  • 30743 Sociology of Deviance
  • 40701 Sociology of Law
  • 43730 Crime and Deviance in Ideological Perspective
  • 43732 Controversies and Crises in Modern Criminology

CULTURE

  • 20100 Introduction to Cultural Sociology
  • 20101 Sociology of Sexual Behavior
  • 30054 Cultural Aspects of Clinical Medicine
  • 30109 Sociology of Culture [lecture]
  • 30151 Popular Culture
  • 43109 Sociology of Culture [seminar]
  • 43113 Cultural Sociology

DEMOGRAPHY

  • 43402 Population Dynamics

ECONOMICS

  • 20502 Today's Organizations
  • 23534 Globalization, Coffee, and Fair Trade
  • 43524 Employment in a Changing Economy
  • 43590 Sociology of Economic Life

EDUCATION

  • 20228 Social Inequality and American Education
  • 30237 Sociology of Teaching
  • 33020 Race, Ethnicity and Education in the Midwest
  • 33021 Race & Ethnicity in Public Education
  • 33228 Education & Stratification
  • 43240 Research on School Effects
  • 43280 Inequality, Schooling, and Higher Education

FAMILY

  • 20342 Marriage and Family
  • 43333 Sociology of Divorce and Remarriage
  • 43377 Families and their Interrelations

IRISH STUDIES

  • 20020 Ireland in Transition: Emigration to Immigration
  • 43020 Ireland: Sociology of a Changing Society

ISLAMIC STUDIES

  • 20061 Islam: Religion and Culture
  • 20455 Women in Islamic Society

  • LATINO STUDIES
  • 20479 Introduction to Latinos in American Society
  • 30043 Migration, Documented
  • 43162 The Aesthetics of Latino Cultural Expression
  • 43404 International Migration: Mexico and the U.S.
  • 43479 International Migration and Human Rights
  • 48040 Mexican Immigration: A South Bend Case Study

POLITICS

  • 20740 Sociology of Terrorism
  • 30002 Global Issues and the UN
  • 30015 Immigration in Global Perspective
  • 30514 Social Movements
  • 30564 Global Sociology
  • 30567 Chile in Comparative Perspective
  • 40030 Approaches to Conflict Transformation
  • 43001 Social Movements in Global Perspective
  • 43553 Building Democratic Institutions
  • 43558 Comparing European Societies

RELIGION

  • 30672 Religion and Social Life
  • 30675 Modernity, Secularization, and Religious Persistence
  • 33001 Sociology, Self, and Catholic Social Tradition
  • 43600 Religion in Classical Sociological Theory
  • 43662 Religion and American Society

SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY

  • 10722 Introduction to Social Psychology
  • 20722 Introduction to Social Psychology
  • 43017 Children-Poverty; Developmental Impications
  • 43719 Self, Society, and the Environment

SPECIAL METHODOLOGY COURSES

  • 40090 Ethnographic Method/Writing
  • 48501 Analysis of Collective Contention (I)
  • 48502 Analysis of Collective Contention (II)
  • 43030 Documentary: Analysis and Method

FIRST YEAR SEMINARS

  • 13095 Materialism and Consumption
  • 13181 Social Science University Seminar
  • The Social Construction of Difference & Inequality
  • Should You Get Married in the Year 2012?
  • Sociology of Culture
  • Making Materialism
  • A Place Called School
  • Capitalism & Democracy
  • Responding to International Crisis
  • The Sociological Imagination
  • Understandings of Democracy

INDIVIDUAL PROJECTS WITH A FACULTY ADVISOR

  • 45000 Sociology Internship
  • 46000 Directed Readings in Sociology
  • 48001 Community-Based Research
  • 48009 Sociology Honors Capstone Project