Sociology
College of Letters and Science
Department Office: 410 Barrows Hall, (510) 642-4766
Chair: Raka Ray, PhD
Department Website: Sociology
Overview
The Department of Sociology is a product of the depth and breadth of its faculty, in particular their varying fields of interests and methodological styles, as well as the high caliber and diversity of the students we attract. The department offers intellectual scope and theoretical strength. Current faculty are carrying out scholarly inquiries and empirical studies in the following fields, among others: social inequalities, race and ethnic relations, gender, education, political sociology, development and globalization, economy and society, organizations and work, sociology of culture, social networks, religion, social psychology, historical and comparative studies, demography, urban sociology, poverty, welfare states, and social theory. Lower division courses are offered to introduce students to the field of sociology and provide critical tools in evaluating research studies in the field. Sociology survey courses provide further overview and introduction to various substantive areas within sociology. The department offers a wide variety of more specialized upper division courses, as well as seminars that focus on advanced topics and research in the field.
Students intending to major in sociology are advised to prepare themselves by taking background work in such other areas as history, philosophy, cultural anthropology, psychology, economics, and political science.
Students who plan to go on to graduate work in sociology or other related disciplines and professions or who plan to participate in the senior honors seminar are strongly urged to take advanced sociological methods: Sociology 105, 106, or 107A-107B.
Major Requirements
Students in the College of Letters and Science may complete a major in sociology, by completing all 12 major requirements listed below with at least a 2.0 major grade point average (GPA).
Lower Division Prerequisites
Sociology 1, Sociology 5, as well as a course in either statistics or logic. Students who have received credit for more than two upper division sociology courses before taking an introductory sociology course must substitute another survey course for Sociology 1. Students may declare as soon as they have enrolled in their last prerequisite. At least one sociology course must be completed at the time of declaration. Students are required to have a 2.0 GPA both cumulative and in the major to be eligible to declare the major, and to maintain academic good standing in the major.
Upper Division Course Requirements
Theory Requirement: Two courses in sociological theory:
- Sociology 101 and 102
- Sociological Theory I and Sociological Theory II (formerly Sociology 101A and 101B)
Survey Requirement: Sociology majors are required to take two courses from the following list of sociology "survey" courses, each from a different substantive area in sociology. Students may take these courses under the new or old number, if there is a change in spring 2010:
- 110 Organizations and Social Institutions
- 120 (formerly 143) Economy and Society
- 130 or 130AC Social Inequalities
- 140 Politics and Social Change
- 150, 150A Social Psychology, or L&S C180V
- 160 Sociology of Culture
- 180C, 180E, 180I, or 180P (formerly 122, 122A) Comparative Perspectives and Area Studies in Sociology
Additional courses in each of these areas are grouped together under similar numbers to the applicable survey course, e.g. other courses in organizations and social institutions will be in the 110 numbers—111, 112, etc. Students are strongly advised to take the survey course for that substantive area before other courses in that area, though this is not a requirement. The survey course serves as a foundation for all other courses in that substantive area.
Sociology Electives: Four additional upper division sociology courses, not already used for other sociology major requirements, or graduate sociology courses (subject to instructor approval). Courses taken from the survey course list in excess of the two required, or additional upper division seminar courses, will count as electives.
Capstone Seminar/Research: One seminar course that will serve as the capstone experience in sociology: 190, H190B, 190AC, 107B, and possibly other advanced sociology courses (see an undergraduate adviser).
Note: Sociology 5, 101, and 102 must be completed with at least a C- grade.
Honors Program
Majors who enter their senior year with a 3.3 GPA overall and a 3.5 GPA in the major may apply to the honors program, after conferring with a major adviser. Students will be required to submit an acceptable thesis proposal as part of their application and are encouraged to take advanced methods courses, such as Sociology 105, 106, and 107A-107B during their junior year in preparation for conducting research for their honors thesis. Students earn honors by maintaining the minimum GPA for honors and by successfully completing Sociology H190A-190B, Senior Honors Thesis and Seminar.
Graduate Program
Information about the graduate program and admissions may be obtained from the Department of Sociology website or from the graduate office at 422 Barrows Hall, (510) 642-1445. Applications are accepted for the fall semester only; the deadline is December 13.
Courses
For more detailed information about courses, course descriptions are available on the Department of Sociology website several months before the beginning of each semester.
SOCIOL 1 Introduction to Sociology 4 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 to 3 hours of Lecture and 2 hours of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.
Introduces students who are considering majoring in sociology to the basic topics, concepts, and principles of the discipline. This course is required for the major; 1 or any version of 3 is prerequisite for other sociology classes; students not considering a sociology major are directed to any version of 3.
Not open to students who have taken 3, 3A or 3AC.
SOCIOL 3AC Principles of Sociology: American Cultures 4 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 5.5 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Comparing the experience of three out of five ethnic groups (e.g. African Americans, Asian Americans, Chicano/Latino, European Americans, and Native Americans) we shall examine historically how each people entered American society and built communities and transformed their cultures in the process. Students will be introduced to the sociological perspective, characteristic methods of research, and such key concepts as culture, community, class, race, social change, and social movements.
Satisfies the American Cultures requirement
Students will not receive credit for 3 or 3AC after taking 1. Deficiency in 3 or 3A may be removed by completing 3AC. No credit for 3AC after 3 or 3A.
SOCIOL 5 Evaluation of Evidence 4 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 2 hours of Discussion per week for 15 weeks. 4.5 hours of Lecture and 3 hours of Discussion per week for 10 weeks. 5.5 hours of Lecture and 3.5 hours of Discussion per week for 8 weeks.
A review of methodological problems in assessing data relating to social life. Topics to be covered include: posing a sociological problem, gaining access to data, measuring, establishing correlation and causal connection among data, and relating data to theoretical context.
SOCIOL 7 Statistics for Social Scientists 4 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 6 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks.
This course is intended as a first course in statistics, covering basic concepts of descriptive and inferential statistics. Students will analyze and display small bodies of data and will interpret and evaluate research findings.
SOCIOL 98 Directed Group Study 1 - 4 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: Individual and group conferences.
Prerequisites: Consent of Instructor.
Group studies of selected topics which vary over time.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
SOCIOL 98BC Directed Group Study Berkeley Connect 1 Unit
Department: Sociology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: Individual and group conferences.
Prerequisites: Consent of Instructor.
Berkeley Connect is a mentoring program, offered through various academic departments, that helps students build intellectual community. Over the course of a semester, enrolled students participate in regular small-group discussions facilitated by a graduate student mentor (following a faculty-directed curriculum), meet with their graduate student mentor for one-on-one academic advising, attend lectures and panel discussions featuring department faculty and alumni, and go on field trips to campus resources. Students are not required to be declared majors in order to participate.
Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
SOCIOL 101 Sociological Theory I 5 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 2 hours of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 1, 3 or 3AC, or consent of instructor.
First half of a year-long course on the history of social thought as a source of present-day problems and hypotheses.
Formerly known as 101A.
SOCIOL 103 Advanced Study in Social Theory 4 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 5.5 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks.
Prerequisites: 101A-101B or 101 and 102.
Course involves pursuing study in subfields of sociological theory. The course presumes a general background in social theory.
Students will receive no credit for 103 after taking 102 prior to Fall 2010. Formerly known as 102.
SOCIOL 105 Research Design and Sociological Methods 5 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 2 hours of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 5 or consent of instructor.
Problems of research design, measurement, and data collection, processing, and analysis will be considered. Attention will be given to both qualitative and quantitative studies.
SOCIOL 106 Quantitative Sociological Methods 4 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of seminar per week and individual conferences.
Prerequisites: Sociology 5 or consent of instructor
This course will cover more technical issues in quantitative research methods, and will include, according to discretion of instructor, a practicum in data collection and/or analysis. Recommended for students interested in graduate work in sociology or research careers.
SOCIOL 107A Field Research: Participant Observation 4 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade. This is part one of a year long series course. A provisional grade of IP (in progress) will be applied and later replaced with the final grade after completing part two of the series.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 1, 3, 3AC or consent of instructor.
This course gives students both substantive background and practical training in the participant-observation method. The first semester will be classroom based to introduce the method. In the second semester students will put the method into practice as they are sent to the field to gather data for the Center for Urban Ethnography's Bay Area Study. During the fieldwork students will participate in a bi-weekly seminar and work under the guidance of the professor to address issues that arise in the field.
Instructor: Sanchez-Jankowski
SOCIOL 107B Field Research: Participant Observation 5 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade. This is part two of a year long series course. Upon completion, the final grade will be applied to both parts of the series.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 107A.
This course gives students both substantive background and practical training in the participant-observation method. The first semester will be classroom based to introduce the method. In the second semester students will put the method into practice as they are sent to the field to gather data for the Center for Urban Ethnography's Bay Area Study. During the fieldwork students will participate in a bi-weekly seminar and work under the guidance of the professor to address issues that arise in the field.
Instructor: Jankowski
SOCIOL 108 Advanced Methods: In-depth Interviewing 4 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 5 (or equivalent but with consent of instructor).
Scientists regularly gather data through observation. Sociologists can go a step further and ask the objects of their studies about their lives and thoughts. This upper-level course teaches students how to engage in scientific research using question-based data. It involves a mix of classroom and hands-on learning, culminating in an independent research paper.
SOCIOL 110 Organizations and Social Institutions 4 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 6 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: 1, 3 or 3AC or consent of instructor.
This survey course studies administrative organizations and voluntary associations; major social institutions in industry, government, religion, and education.
SOCIOL 111 Sociology of the Family 4 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks. 6 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks. 8 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: 1, 3 or 3AC or consent of instructor.
In this course, we trace the history of the American family from the 19th-century farm--in which work, medical care, and entertainment went on--to the smaller, more diverse, and subjectively defined family of the 21st century. We also explore ways in which the family acts as a "shock absorber" of many trends including immigration, the increasing social class divide, and especially the growing domination of the marketplace. Finally, we also explore the diversity of family forms associated with social class, ethnicity, and sexual orientation.
SOCIOL 111AC Sociology of the Family 4 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week. 6 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week for 8 weeks. 8 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: Sociology 1, 3, or 3AC, or consent of instructor.
In this course, we trace the history of the American family from the 19th-century farm--in which work, medical care, and entertainment went on--to the smaller, more diverse, and subjectively defined family of the 21st century. We also explore ways in which the family acts as a "shock absorber" of many trends including immigration, the increasing social class divide, and especially the growing domination of the marketplace. Finally, we also explore the diversity of family forms associated with social class, ethnicity, and sexual orientation.
Satisfies the American Cultures requirement
Students will receive no credit for Sociology 111AC after taking Sociology 111; a deficient grade in Sociology 111 may be removed by taking Sociology 111AC. Instructor: Kelsey
SOCIOL 111C Sociology of Childhood 4 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 6 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks. 8 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: 1, 3, 3AC or consent of instructor.
This course focuses on children and on varied contexts and experiences of growing up; it also highlights the social organization and meanings of age. It explores the idea of childhood as a social construction, including cross-cultural and historical variation in assumptions. Then it highlights the changing political economy and history of childhoods, including children's roles in consumption and production in the world. Lastly, it examines the intersecting dynamics of age, social class, racial ethnicity, gender and sexuality in growing up.
SOCIOL 111P Families, Inequality and Social Policy 4 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 1, 3, 3AC or consent of instructor.
This course explores the relationships between changes in how Americans are experiencing family life, growing inequality in the U.S., and the social policy "solutions" aimed at families and children. While discussing these trends and changes and their social consequences, we will discuss government responses to these changes, how debates are framed, who debates, and how other industrialized countries consider these questions.
SOCIOL C112/RELIGST C182 Sociology of Religion 4 Units
Department: Sociology; Religious Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 2 hours of Discussion per week for 15 weeks. 6 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks. 8 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: 1, 3, 3AC or consent of instructor.
The course will locate the place of religious consciousness in human action and then survey comparatively and historically the role that religion has played in human society. Will include a general theory of the nature of religious experience, religious symbolism, and the basis of religious community.
SOCIOL 113 Sociology of Education 4 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 2 hours of Discussion per week for 15 weeks. 6 hours of Lecture and 4 hours of Discussion per week for 8 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: 1, 3 or 3AC or consent of instructor.
The role of formal education in modern societies. Educational systems in relation to the religious, cultural, economic, and political forces shaping their character.
SOCIOL 113AC Sociology of Education 4 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 6 hours of Lecture and 4 hours of Discussion per week for 8 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: 1, 3 or 3AC or consent of instructor.
The role of formal education in modern societies. Educational systems in relation to the religious, cultural, economic, and political forces shaping their character.
Satisfies the American Cultures requirement
SOCIOL 114 Sociology of Law 4 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1.5 hours of Discussion per week for 15 weeks. 5.5 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: 1, 3, 3A or 3AC or consent of instructor.
Selected legal rules, principles, and institutions treated from a sociological perspective. Influence of culture and social organization on law; role of law in social change; social aspects of the administration of justice; social knowledge and the law.
SOCIOL 115B Biology, Genetics and Society 4 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture per week.
Prerequisites: Sociology 1, 3, 3AC or consent of instructor.
The course will provide an overview of the intersections of biology, genetics and society in an examination of the past, present, and possible future effects of such intersections. In particular, the course addresses contemporary controversies, such as the search for the gay gene and the biology of human behavior, the biology of superiority, and the nature-nurture debate, in order to provide students a critical insight into biology’s profound role in shaping our modern way of life.
SOCIOL C115/PB HLTH C155 Sociology of Health and Medicine 4 Units
Department: Sociology; Public Health
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 7.5 to 8 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: Sociology 1, 3, 3AC or consent of instructor.
This course covers several topics, including distributive justice in health care, the organization and politics of the health system, the correlates of health (by race, sex, class, income), pandemics (e.g., AIDS, Avian Flu and other influenzas, etc.), and the experience of illness and interactions with doctors and the medical system.
Students will receive no credit for C115 after taking 155, C155 or Public Health C155. Formerly known as C155.
SOCIOL 116 Sociology of Work 4 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 2 hours of Discussion per week for 15 weeks. 8 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: 1, 3, or 3AC or consent of instructor.
The labor force; social control within and of occupations and professions (professionalization, professional associations vs. labor unions, codes of ethics, legal controls); social structure of the workplace, work experience of the participants, relation of both to community and society.
SOCIOL C116G/L & S C150T Working People in the Global Economy 4 Units
Department: Sociology; Letters and Science
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 2 hours of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.
Work is central to our identities, self-esteem, well-being, and social status. How societies organize work shapes the distribution of rewards and power, not just in the workplace but in society at large. Everyone's work is profoundly shaped by the way it connects to other people's labor around the globe. Using a variety of disciplinary lenses, we will look at working people world wide and examine how the organized efforts of working people have shaped the nature of jobs and social change.
SOCIOL 117 Sport As a Social Institution 4 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: 1 or 3 or 3AC or consent of instructor.
Analysis of sport as social institution, its structure and functions; male-female role contrasts, race and sport; economics of sport; the roles of coach, athlete, fan--their interrelationships and complexities; current turmoil in sport and the ideological struggle which has emerged.
SOCIOL C118/INTEGBI C130 Human Fertility 4 Units
Department: Sociology; Integrative Biology
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture and 2 hours of laboratory per week.
This course explores human reproduction through the lenses of evolutionary biology, population statistics, and culture. Throughout, we organize the course in terms of major transitions and the question of choice. How do evolved biology and inherited culture make some choices more accessible and others less so? What happened to human fertility—and to the possibility of making choices about fertility—at such moments of change as the emergence of pair bonding in hominids, the advent of agriculture, the industrial revolution, and today with the development of both contraceptive and prospective technologies.
Instructors: Hlusko, Johnson-Hanks
SOCIOL 119S Organizational Strategy and Design: A Sociological Perspective 4 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture per week.
Prerequisites: Sociology 1 or 3 or 3AC or consent of instructor.
This course addresses organizational design strategy formulation and institutional analysis for a variety of organizational entities. The course features a focus on international issues, key debates in organizational design and their implications. By the end of the course, students will be expected to detect, diagnose, and recommend globally savvy solutions for many types of organizational design related issues.
Course may NOT be repeated for credit. Students who took Soc. 119T in Fall ’11, Fall ’12 and Fall ‘13 will not receive credit for Sociol 119S.
SOCIOL 120 Economy and Society 4 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: 1 or 3 or 3AC or consent of instructor.
This survey course focus on three major themes of the contemporary United States: government, resources, and cities. Stress on the importance of transition from the 1960's. Examination of how each sector is influenced by policy currents, economic trends, and social conflicts.
Formerly known as 143.
SOCIOL 121 Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Social and Cultural Context 4 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 1, 3, 3AC or consent of instructor.
This course will examine the social and cultural environment that enables or hinders the innovation process in business. The course starts by reviewing how companies can create and foster innovative cultures and organize for innovation, and reviews differences between countries in innovativeness. It continues by examining the factors which influence whether innovations are or are not adopted. It addresses some social and ethical issues of innovation, examines the social role and context of entrepreneurs, and closes with some case studies.
SOCIOL 123 Corporate Social Responsibility and Green Business 4 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 8 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: 1, 3, 3AC, or consent of instructor.
A corporation is a "citizen" of a society and, like all other citizens, has certain legal, regulatory, moral, and ethical duties. This course will examine the definitions of corporate social responsibility and examples of good and bad corporate citizenship based on some of those definitions, with an emphasis on "green business", ways in which corporations minimize their impact on the environment.
SOCIOL 124 Sociology of Poverty 4 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Introductory sociology or consent of instructor.
This course will explore the sociology of poverty. It will examine a number of theories on the causes of poverty, then turn to an examination of empirical studies concerning the trends and determinants of poverty, followed by an examination of the everyday life of those who live in the condition of poverty. This course will conclude with a look at social policy toward poverty. The course will focus primarily, although not exclusively, on poverty in the U.S. While there will be some readings concerning rural poverty, the course will have a decidedly urban focus.
Deficiency in 124AC cannot be removed by completing 124. No credit for 124 after 124AC. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
SOCIOL C126/DEMOG C126 Social Consequences of Population Dynamics 4 Units
Department: Sociology; Demography
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 1 or 3 or 3AC or consent of instructor.
Introduction to population issues and the field of demography, with emphasis on historical patterns of population growth and change during the industrial era. Topics covered include the demographic transition, resource issues, economic development, the environment, population control, family planning, birth control, family and gender, aging, intergenerational transfers, and international migration.
SOCIOL 127 Development and Globalization 4 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks. 6 hours of Lecture and 1.5 hours of Discussion per week for 8 weeks. 8 hours of Lecture and 2 hours of Discussion per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: 1 or 3 or 3AC or consent of instructor.
A comparative analysis of socio-economic and political change, focusing on the poor countries of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Offers both a basic descriptive understanding of processes of change in these countries and an introduction to major theoretical perspectives on development and globalization.
Formerly known as 172.
SOCIOL 128 Society and the Environment 4 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 1 or 3 or 3AC or consent of instructor.
Living in an urban area at the end of the 20th century, it is easy to forget how germane the biophysical world is to our lives. This course seeks to explore the relationships between society and the environment as they have varied over time and across societies. The approach taken will be broadly historical and multicultural and will include readings on the social construction of nature, early industrialization and natural resource use, social movements and the environment, and the environmental impacts of late capitalism.
SOCIOL 130 Social Inequalities 4 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 6 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks. 8 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: 1 or 3 or 3AC or consent of instructor.
This survey course studies recent trends in occupational stratification; social classes in local communities and the nation as related to interest organizations.
Students cannot take 130 to remove a deficient grade in 130AC.
SOCIOL 130AC Social Inequalities: American Cultures 4 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 6 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks. 8 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: 1 or 3 or 3AC or consent of instructor.
This course explores the causes and consequences of inequality in the U.S. First, we will discuss theories and concepts scholars use to understand inequality. We then consider several institutions that sustain, reproduce and/or mitigate inequality in the U.S., such as education, labor markets, family structure, and the criminal justice system. Within each topic, we pay attention to the significance of race and ethnicity, social class, and gender.
Satisfies the American Cultures requirement
Students will receive no credit for 130AC after taking 130; a deficient grade in 130 may be removed by taking 130AC. A deficient grade in 130AC can only be removed by repeating the course.
SOCIOL 131 Race and Ethnic Relations: The United States Experience 4 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 1 or 3 or 3AC or consent of instructor.
Course focuses on race and ethnic relations in the United States. Examination of historical experiences, contemporary circumstances and future prospects of racial and ethnic populations with particular attention to trends in relations between the dominant society and the Afro-American, Native-American, Asian-American and Latino sub-cultures. Political and social consequences of racial and ethnic stratification are explored.
Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Students will receive no credit for 131 after taking 131A or 131AC; a deficiency in 131A may be removed by taking 131. Formerly known as 131A.
SOCIOL 131A Race and Ethnic Relations: The United States Experience 4 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 1 or 3 or 3AC or consent of instructor.
Course focuses on race and ethnic relations in the United States. Examination of historical experiences, contemporary circumstances and future prospects of racial and ethnic populations with particular attention to trends in relations between the dominant society and the Afro-American, Native-American, Asian-American and Latino sub-cultures. Political and social consequences of racial and ethnic stratification are explored.
Deficiency in 131AC cannot be removed by completing 131A. No credit for 131A after 131AC. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
SOCIOL 131AC Race and Ethnic Relations: U.S. American Cultures 4 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: 1 or 3 or 3AC or consent of instructor.
Course focuses on race and ethnic relations in the United States. Examination of historical experiences, contemporary circumstances, and future prospects of racial and ethnic populations with particular attention to trends in relations between the dominant society and the African American, Native American, Asian American, and Latino subcultures. Political and social consequences of racial and ethnic stratification are explored.
Satisfies the American Cultures requirement
Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Students will receive no credit for 131AC after taking 131 or 131A. Deficiency in 131 or 131A may be removed by 131AC.
SOCIOL 131F Four Centuries of Racial Vision and Division in the U.S. 4 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 1, 3, 3AC or consent of instructor.
This course mixes sociological theory and social history to trace the workings of race as a principle of social vision and division. It proceeds through a focused inquiry into the making, functioning, and contradictions of four "peculiar institutions" that have operated to define, confine, and control African Americans in the history of the United States: slavery; the Jim Crow system of legal discrimination and segregation; the ghetto of the Northern metropolis; and the novel institutional mesh formed by the hyperghetto and the prison.
No credit for 131F after taking 132.
SOCIOL 133 Sociology of Gender 4 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks. 6 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks. 8 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: 1 or 3 or 3AC or consent of instructor.
Historical and comparative theories of gender and gender relations. Exploration of key institutions such as family, state, and workplace through which students can understand the social, economic, and cultural factors that create gender and shape what it means to be a man or a woman. Consideration of feminist movements, in a global context, and of relationships of gender to social class, sexuality, age, race/ethnicity, and nationality.
SOCIOL 136 Urban Sociology 4 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 6 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks. 8 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: 1 or 3 or 3AC or consent of instructor.
The nature, causes, consequences of world urbanization; metropolitan areas; location and types of cities, social and demographic characteristics of urban populations.
Students will receive no credit for 136 after taking 125 or 125AC. Deficiency in 125 may be removed by taking 136. Formerly known as 125.
SOCIOL 137AC/ESPM 163AC Environmental Justice: Race, Class, Equity, and the Environment 4 Units
Department: Sociology; Environ Sci, Policy, and Management
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of lecture, 1 hour of discussion, and 1 hour of service learning.
Overview of the field of environmental justice, analyzing the implications of race, class, labor, and equity on environmental degradation and regulation. Environmental justice movements and struggles within poor and people of color communities in the U.S., including: African Americans, Latino Americans, and Native American Indians. Frameworks and methods for analyzing race, class, and labor. Cases of environmental injustice, community and government responses, and future strategies for achieving environmental and labor justice.
Satisfies the American Cultures requirement
Formerly known as Sociology 128AC. Instructor: O'Rourke
SOCIOL 139 Selected Topics in Social Inequality 4 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 6 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks. 8 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: 1, 3, 3AC or consent of instructor.
Specialized topics in Social Inequalities that are not regularly offered in the curriculum may occasionally be offered under this number. The focus of the course will vary depending on the instructor in charge. The survey course in Social Inequalities, 130, is recommended before taking this course.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
SOCIOL 140 Politics and Social Change 4 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 2 hours of Discussion per week for 15 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture and 5 hours of Discussion per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: 1 or 3 or 3AC or consent of instructor.
This survey course studies the relationship between society and politics through an analysis of the intersection of economic development, social relations, and the political sphere. Examines how class, race, ethnicity, and gender interact with political culture, ideology, and the state. The course also looks at diverse forms of political behavior, a key aspect of politics.
SOCIOL 142 Sociology of War and Conflict 4 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 1 or 3 or 3AC or consent of instructor.
Violent and peaceful procedures in the pursuit of national objectives; analysis of attempts to specify the causes of war.
SOCIOL 144 Ethnic Politics 4 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 1 or 3 or 3AC or consent of instructor.
Examination of the role that ethnicity plays in influencing the political behavior of individuals as well as analysis of how the state in multi-ethnic countries interacts with ethnic groups.
No credit for Sociology 144 after taking 144AC. Deficiency in 144AC cannot be removed by taking 144.
SOCIOL 145 Social Change 4 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 2 hours of Discussion per week for 15 weeks. 5.5 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: 1 or 3 or 3AC or consent of instructor.
Study of major changes in modern societies: the sources of these changes; the processes through which they spread; their meaning for individuals and institutions.
Students will receive no credit for 145 after taking 145AC, 170, or 170AC. Formerly known as 170.
SOCIOL 145AC Social Change: American Cultures 4 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Sociology 1, 3, or 3AC.
This course will seek to explain the formation of modern United States society by inquiring into the processes of social change that have brought us to the present as well as created possibilities for the future. Race, nationalism, and ethnicity--and movements against racism and nationalism and for multiculturalism--are central dimensions of social change in the United States. The course will explore the processes of social change as they affect and are affected by different racial and ethnic groups in the United States.
Satisfies the American Cultures requirement
Students will receive no credit for 145AC after taking 145, 170, or 170AC. Deficiency in 145, 170, 170AC may be removed by taking 145AC. Formerly known as 170AC.
SOCIOL 145L Social Change in Latin America 4 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 1 or 3 or 3AC or consent of instructor.
This course will introduce students to the origins and nature of social change in contemporary Latin America. A socio-historical approach will be used to describe the region's development, which will lay the groundwork for understanding the emergence in recent decades of movements promoting social change there. While focusing particularly on Latin America, the course will also provide the theoretical and analytical tools required to comprehend social change elsewhere in the Third World.
Formerly known as 187.
SOCIOL 146 Contemporary Immigration in Global Perspective 4 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 1, 3, 3AC or consent of instructor.
The goal of this course is to introduce students to important academic and political debates around immigration, to discuss processes of immigration, integration and exclusion in different national and cultural contexts, and to look at how the question of immigration plays out in different social and political areas.
SOCIOL 146AC Contemporary Immigration in Global Perspective 4 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 1, 3, 3AC or consent of instructor.
The goal of this course is to introduce students to important academic and political debates around immigration, to discuss processes of immigration, integration and exclusion in different national and cultural contexts, and to look at how the question of immigration plays out in different social and political areas.
Satisfies the American Cultures requirement
SOCIOL 148 Social Policy 4 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Sociology 1, 3AC, or 5.
In this course, we will examine American policy responses to poverty and inequality and evaluate various theories. We will pay particular attention to the role of pulic opinion, interest groups, race and class relations, social movements, and the state in explaining the American social welfare provision.
SOCIOL 150 Social Psychology 4 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 6 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks. 8 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: 1 or 3 or 3AC or consent of instructor.
This survey course examines many theoretical approaches to social psychology. The approaches may include: symbolic interactionism, neo-behaviorism, psychodynamic analyses, cognitive theories, interpersonal processes and theories of exchange.
SOCIOL 150A Social Psychology: Self and Society 4 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
This survey course provides tools from social psychology to help students develop a better understanding of their own and others' behavior. Social psychology is a field that bridges sociology and psychology and is primarily concerned with how individuals view and interact with one another in everyday life. The class is organized around a survey of the great ideas from the history of social psychology. We will study research on a wide variety of topics including conformity, obedience, identity, power, status, and interpersonal perception.
Students will receive no credit for 150A after taking C150A or Letters and Science C180V. Deficiency in C150A or Letters and Science C180V may be removed by taking 150A.
SOCIOL C150A/L & S C180V Social Psychology: Self and Society 4 Units
Department: Sociology; Letters and Science
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
This survey course provides tools from social psychology to help students develop a better understanding of their own and others' behavior. Social psychology is a field that bridges sociology and psychology and is primarily concerned with how individuals view and interact with one another in everyday life. The class is organized around a survey of the great ideas from the history of social psychology. We will study research on a wide variety of topics including conformity, obedience, identity, power, status, and interpersonal perception.
SOCIOL 151 Personality and Social Structure 4 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 8 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: 1, 3, 3AC or consent of instructor.
This course addresses how individual psyches are shaped by the wider society: how a person's locations in a culture, an historical era, and within a society affect how they think, what they feel, and how they express their personalities.
Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
SOCIOL 152 Deviance and Social Control 4 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 2 hours of Discussion per week for 15 weeks. 6 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks. 8 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: 1, 3 or 3AC or consent of instructor.
A consideration of forms, causes, and controls of deviant behavior.
Formerly known as 115.
SOCIOL 160 Sociology of Culture 4 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 2 hours of Discussion per week for 15 weeks. 6 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks. 8 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: 1 or 3 or 3AC or consent of instructor.
This survey course studies human meaning systems, particularly as manifested in art, literature, music, and other media. It includes study of the production, reception, and aesthetic experience of cultural forms.
SOCIOL 165 Social Networks 4 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 8 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: 1, 3, 3AC, or consent of instructor.
A "social network" can be an association of people or of groups of people. It is usually for some kind of exchange, with the network serving as a forum or medium. It can be personal or impersonal. This course will study the relations linking persons, organizations, interest groups, states, etc., analyze the structure of these relations, and review how such structures constrain behavior, and channel social change.
SOCIOL 166 Society and Technology 4 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 5.5 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks. 7 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: 1, 3, 3AC, or consent of instructor.
This course studies the interaction between society and technologies in a comparative and multicultural perspective. Some topics covered include the relationship between technology and human society; technology, culture and values; technology in the new global economy; development and inequality; electronic democracy; how technology has transformed work and employment; and the challenges of technological progress and the role that society plays in addressing these challenges.
Formerly known as 119.
SOCIOL 167 Virtual Communities/Social Media 4 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: 1, 3, 3AC, or consent of instructor.
With the advent of virtual communities and online social networks, old questions about the meaning of human social behavior have taken on renewed significance. Using a variety of online social media simultaneously, and drawing upon theoretical literature in a variety of disciplines, this course delves into discourse about community across disciplines. This course will enable students to establish both theoretical and experiential foundations for making decisions and judgments regarding the relations between mediated communication and human community.
SOCIOL 169 Selected Topics in Sociology of Culture 4 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 1, 3, 3AC or consent of instructor.
Specialized topics in sociology of culture that are not regularly offered in the curriculum may occasionally be offered under this number. The focus of the course will vary depending on the instructor in charge. Possibilities include investigations of new media for cultural expression or social networking, cultures of care giving, and the meaning of consumption patterns. The survey course in sociology of culture, 160, is recommended before taking this course.
Course may be repeated for credit as topic varies. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
SOCIOL 169F Cultural Perspectives of Food 3 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture per week.
Prerequisites: Sociology 1, 3, 3AC, or consent of instructor.
The course will provide a broad overview of food as culture. The course begins with foundational writings on the cultural implications of food as consumption and social distinction, and the culture of a global food world. The course also examines how food is imbued with gender, race, class, ethnic and sexual meanings and the constitution and creation of identity.
SOCIOL 180C Comparative Perspectives on U.S. and European Societies: Culture 4 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 1,3, 3AC or consent of instructor.
This survey course explores difference between the US and European countries in the cultural domain. It starts by discussing American Exceptionalism, focusing on 1) individualism versus collectivism, 2) liberal market ideology versus social democracy, and 3) religiously versus secularism. Subsequent topics are: differences in the mind and psyche, focusing on substance use and abuse, the role of self-fulfillment, and of therapy, as well as moral judgment and the visions of the good life, systems of classification and evaluation, family, abortion and sex, and the cultural integration of immigrants.
Students will receive no credit for 180C after taking 122. Formerly known as 122B.
SOCIOL 180E Comparative Perspectives on U.S. and European Societies: Education 4 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 1, 3, or 3AC; or consent of instructor.
In this course we will focus first on relevant sociological theories of comparative education, and then apply these theories in their practical context by looking at social issues in education in the United States and selected European countries. Next we will discuss the impact of race, ethnicity, language, social class, and gender. Finally, we will consider sociological perspectives on comtemporary education reform, school change, and alternative education.
SOCIOL 180I Comparative Perspectives on U.S. and European Societies: Inequality 4 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 1, 3, 3AC, or consent of instructor.
This survey course explores differences between modern societies through systematic comparisons of inequality in the U.S. and European countries. It analyzes central social changes, social problems and institutions in the societies, addressing gender inequality, immigration, and rising inequality.
Students will receive no credit for 180I after taking 122 prior to spring 2009 or 122A. Formerly known as 122A.
SOCIOL 180P Comparative Perspectives on U.S. and European Societies: Political Economy 4 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 1, 3, 3AC, or consent of instructor.
This course introduces comparative political economy with focus on the US, European countries, and the international economic arena. We will compare and conrast different theories of comparative political economy. Then we will focus on the varied economic, political, and social impacts of the EU in comparision to the NAFTA. Lastly, we will focus on challenges of and possible solutions to economic developments.
SOCIOL 181 Historical Sociology 4 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 6 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: 1 or 3 or 3AC or consent of instructor.
Study of the major concepts, problems and works of scholarship in the field of historical sociology, with attention to such topics as industrialization, revolution, transformation of social structure, social life, political authority, institutions and culture viewed from an historical and comparative perspective.
Formerly known as 171.
SOCIOL 182 Elementary Forms of Racial Domination: International Perspectives 4 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 5.5 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: 1 or 3 or 3AC or consent of instructor.
A broad survey of race and ethnic relations in a wide variety of nations and periods, with special attention to comparisons with the present and past patterns in the United States. Emphasis on: social, economic, political, institutional, social psychological, and demographic processes.
Formerly known as 131B.
SOCIOL 183 Contemporary Chinese Society 4 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 1 or 3 or 3AC or consent of instructor.
An introduction to institutions, social groups, and values in contemporary Chinese society. Dynamics of social change in a revolutionary and post-revolutionary setting. Trends in the future development of Chinese society.
Students will receive no credit for 183 after taking C183.
SOCIOL C184/DEMOG C165 Family and Household in Comparative Perspective 3 Units
Department: Sociology; Demography
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Sociology 1, 3, 3AC or consent of instructor.
How are families and households organized around the world? Which aspects of household and family vary, and which are constant? What are the relationships between household and family on the one hand and the political, economic, or broad social patterns on the other? This course examines all of these questions, taking historical and contemporary examples from Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas.
SOCIOL 185 Global Sociology 3 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 1, 3, 3AC, or consent of instructor.
Global sociology seeks to transcend national boundaries, studying the world as a unit unto itself, populated by organizations, networks, and movements. Global sociology cannot be constructed by sociologists from a single country, but it must be a collaborative effort from different parts of the planet. We will study globalization through a sociological lens by asking distinguished sociologists from around the world to discuss such contemporary issues as immigration, terrorism, disasters, etc.
SOCIOL 186 American Society 4 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 8 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: 1 or 3 or 3AC or consent of instructor.
This course explores the ways that contemporary American society is different than other societies and different than American society in earlier periods.
Formerly known as 180.
SOCIOL 189 Selected Topics in Comparative Perspectives and Area Studies in Sociology 4 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture per week.
Prerequisites: 1 or 3 or 3AC or consent of instructor.
Specialized topics in comparative perspectives and area studies in sociology that are not regularly offered in the curriculum may occasionally be offered under this number. The focus of the course will vary depending on the instructor in charge. One of the survey courses in comparative perspectives and area studies in sociology, 180C, 180E, 180I, or 180P, is recommended before taking this course.
Course may be repeated for credit as topic varies. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
SOCIOL C189/DUTCH C170/HISTORY C194 Dutch Culture and Society: Amsterdam and Berkeley in the Sixties 4 Units
Department: Sociology; Dutch; History
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture/discussion per week.
This course will focus on the cultural aspects of protest- and youth cultures in two cities that were influential in the sixties: Amsterdam and Berkeley. Particular attention will be paid to how American popular culture was perceived in a European context. All readings and discussions in English.
SOCIOL 189G Comparative Perspectives in Sociology: The Global Elite 3 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture per week.
Prerequisites: Sociology 1 or 3 or 3AC or consent of instructor.
The course will cover both traditional and new elite theories, examine contemporary empirical evidence on the rise of the new global plutocracy, and think about the long-term implications of this phenomenon for inequality, culture, and society.
Course may NOT be repeated for credit. Students who took Soc. 189 in Spring 2013 will not receive credit for Soc. 189G.
SOCIOL 190 Seminar and Research in Sociology 4 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of seminar per week. 4 hours of seminar per week for 8 weeks.
Prerequisites: 1 or 3 or 3AC or consent of instructor.
Advanced study in sociology, with specific topics to be announced at the beginning of each semester.
Course may be repeated for credit as topic varies. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
SOCIOL 190AC Seminar and Research in Sociology: American Cultures 4 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 1, 3, 3AC, or consent of instructor.
Advanced study in sociology, with specific topics that satisfy the American Cultures requirement, e.g., immigration, to be announced at the beginning of each semester.
Satisfies the American Cultures requirement
SOCIOL H190A Senior Honors Thesis and Seminar 4 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade. This is part one of a year long series course. A provisional grade of IP (in progress) will be applied and later replaced with the final grade after completing part two of the series.
Hours and format: 2 hours of seminar per week and individual conferences.
Prerequisites: Restricted to senior honors candidates with suitable preparation (see description of major).
Intensive study of individual topic to provide background for honors thesis which is completed during the second semester of the sequence. Group and individual conferences.
Credit and grade will be assigned only upon completion of the full sequence.
SOCIOL H190B Senior Honors Thesis and Seminar 5 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade. This is part two of a year long series course. Upon completion, the final grade will be applied to both parts of the series.
Hours and format: 2 hours of seminar per week and individual conferences.
Prerequisites: Restricted to senior honors candidates with suitable preparation (see description of major).
Intensive study of individual topic to provide background for honors thesis which is completed during the second semester of the sequence. Group and individual conferences.
Credit and grade will be assigned only upon completion of the full sequence.
SOCIOL 191 Sociology Proseminar 1 Unit
Department: Sociology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: 1 hour of proseminar per week.
Prerequisites: Declared sociology major or consent of instructor.
In this proseminar students will become familiar with faculty and their various research interests. It consists of presentations by faculty of their ongoing work and allows students to address questions within and about the discipline.
Formerly known as 100.
SOCIOL 192 The Craft of Sociology 1 - 4 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: 1 to 4 hour of Seminar per week for 15 weeks. 1.5 to 7.5 hours of Seminar per week for 8 weeks. 2.5 to 10 hours of Seminar per week for 6 weeks.
This course provides an orientation to the study of sociology at Berkeley. In this class, students will gain exposure to the research and writing of Berkeley faculty, they will learn about the resources and opportunities available for their academic success and future goals, and they will develop their own sociological skills, notably around writing but also with regards to oral discussions and the presentation of numerical data.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
SOCIOL 194 Writing Seminar 1 - 4 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 1 to 4 hour of Seminar per week for 15 weeks. 1.5 to 7.5 hours of Seminar per week for 8 weeks. 2.5 to 10 hours of Seminar per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: 1, 3, 3AC; or consent of instructor.
This seminar is for students who are interested in writing a longer research-based paper. It is designed to improve writing skills, with a focus on empirical sociological research. Students will be required to conduct, write, and present an original research project. The seminar will also have a set of substantive readings, which will help students with specific substantive interests focus their work. The readings will vary by year and instructor, and may cover topics such as immigration, ethnicity, and poverty.
SOCIOL 195 Social Psychology Laboratory Research 1 - 4 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 1 to 4 hour of Independent study per week for 15 weeks. 1.5 to 7.5 hours of Independent study per week for 8 weeks.
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.
In this course, students apply to work as research assistants in the sociology department's Laboratory for Social Research. Students will do a variety of research related activities including participation in a weekly laboratory workshop, running participants in study sessions, analyzing data, conducting interviews, and conducting literature reviews.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
SOCIOL C196A/GWS C196A/HISTART C196A/HISTORY C196A/MEDIAST C196A/POL SCI C196A/POLECON C196A/UGIS C196A UCDC Core Seminar 4 Units
Department: Sociology; Gender and Women's Studies; History; History of Art; Media Studies; Political Economy; Political Science; Undergrad Interdisciplinary Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks. 4.5 hours of Lecture and 1.5 hours of Discussion per week for 10 weeks.
Prerequisites: C196B (must be taken concurrently).
This course is the UCDC letter-graded core seminar for 4 units that complements the P/NP credited internship course UGIS C196B. Core seminars are designed to enhance the experience of and provide an intellectual framework for the student's internship. UCDC core seminars are taught in sections that cover various tracks such as the Congress, media, bureaucratic organizations and the Executive Branch, international relations, public policy and general un-themed original research.
Instructor: Cain
SOCIOL C196B/GWS C196B/HISTART C196B/HISTORY C196B/MEDIAST C196B/POL SCI C196B/POLECON C196B/UGIS C196B UCDC Internship 6.5 Units
Department: Sociology; Gender and Women's Studies; History; History of Art; Media Studies; Political Economy; Political Science; Undergrad Interdisciplinary Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: 20-4 to Thirty hours of Internship per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: C196A (must be taken concurrently).
This course provides a credited internship for all students enrolled in the UCDC and Cal in the Capital Programs. It must be taken in conjunction with the required academic core course C196A. C196B requires that students work 3-4 days per week as interns in settings selected to provide them with exposure to and experienc in government, public policy, international affairs, media, the arts or other areas or relevance to their major fields of study.
Instructor: Cain
SOCIOL C196W/GWS C196W/HISTART C196W/HISTORY C196W/MEDIAST C196W/POL SCI C196W/POLECON C196W/UGIS C196W Special Field Research 10.5 Units
Department: Sociology; Gender and Women's Studies; History; History of Art; Media Studies; Political Economy; Political Science; Undergrad Interdisciplinary Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 240-300 hours of work per semester plus regular meetings with the faculty supervisor.
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.
Students work in selected internship programs approved in advance by the faculty coordinator and for which written contracts have been established between the sponsoring organization and the student. Students will be expected to produce two progress reports for their faculty coordinator during the course of the internship, as well as a final paper for the course consisting of at least 35 pages. Other restrictions apply; see faculty adviser.
Course may be repeated for a maximum of 12 units.Course may be repeated for a maximum of 12 units. Formerly known as 196W.
SOCIOL 197 Field Study in Sociology 1 - 4 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: Individual conferences. Individual conferences.
Prerequisites: 1 or 3 or 3AC or consent of instructor.
Supervised experience relevant to specific aspects of sociology in off-campus organizations. Regular individual meetings with faculty sponsor and written reports required.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
SOCIOL 198 Directed Group Study for Undergraduates 1 - 4 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: Individual conferences. Individual conferences.
Prerequisites: 1 or 3 or 3AC or and consent of instructor.
Group studies of selected topics which vary over time.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
SOCIOL 198BC Directed Group Study for Undergraduates--Berkeley Connect 1 Unit
Department: Sociology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: Individual conferences.
Berkeley Connect is a mentoring program, offered through various academic departments, that helps students build intellectual community. Over the course of a semester, enrolled students participate in regular small-group discussions facilitated by a graduate student mentor (following a faculty-directed curriculum), meet with their graduate student mentor for one-on-one academic advising, attend lectures and panel discussions featuring department faculty and alumni, and go on field trips to campus resources. Students are not required to be declared majors in order to participate.
Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
SOCIOL 199 Supervised Independent Study and Research 1 - 4 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: Individual conferences.
Prerequisites: 1 or 3 or 3AC or consent of instructor.
Enrollment restrictions apply; see the Introduction to Courses and Curricula section of this catalog.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
SOCIOL 200 Proseminar 1 Unit
Department: Sociology
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.
Hours and format: 1 hour of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
This proseminar is required of all first-year graduate students and is supervised by a regular faculty member. The seminar will familiarize students with faculty and their various research interests and of opportunities available for funding via research and teaching assistantships. It consists of presentations by faculty on their past, present and future research and by representatives of Organized Research Units on their mission, programs of research, and opportunities for assistantships.
SOCIOL 201A Classical Social Theory 3 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.
Social Theory began as an attempt to come to grips with the massive social transformations in Europe beginning around 1500. Modernity was understood in three ways. It concerned the development of a capitalist economy based on the use of science to develop new technology, the emergence of states with bureaucracies allied with military organizations, and the decline of religious authority as the main arbiter of moral values accompanied by the rise of the model of the self-interested purposive actor. Social theory was produced not just to create an understanding of these changes and the problems they caused, but also to be used to propose how society ought to be structured. In this class, we examine how classical thinkers, like Karl Marx, Max Weber, and Emile Durkheim among others, proposed how to analyze those changes and in doing so created theories of society.
Students will receive no credit for 201A after taking 201.
SOCIOL 201B Modern Social Theory 3 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.
This course is a continuation of our required graduate theory course. We separate modern and classical social theory by considering modern social theory to consist of works published after World War II. Modern sociological theory uses classical social theory both as a source and a foil. There have been continuities in social thought whereby more contemporary theorists view themselves as using elements of classical social theory, sometimes in combination and at other times to understand different kinds of phenomena, such as micro-interaction or gender relations. Contemporary theory has also been critical of classical theory. This has caused different theorists to construct entirely new ideas or rely on new sources for their theories. The course considers a wide variety of authors and perspectives to illustrate the current breadth of social thought.
Students will receive no credit for 201B after taking 201.
SOCIOL 202A Advanced Study in Sociology Theory: Classical Sociological Theory 3 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
Particular theorists or theoretical traditions will be selected for intensive study, according to the interests of the instructor.
SOCIOL 202B Advanced Study in Sociology Theory: Contemporary Sociological Theory 3 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
Particular theorists or theoretical traditions will be selected for intensive study, according to the interests of the instructor.
SOCIOL 202C Advanced Study in Sociology Theory: Systematic Sociological Theory 3 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
Particular theorists or theoretical traditions will be selected for intensive study, according to the interests of the instructor.
SOCIOL 205A Supervised Preparatory Course Work: Law 3 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: Individual conferences, as well as class at10dance.
Prerequisites: Consultation with and approval of regular faculty member responsible.
Introductory study of a sociological field, among those listed in the 280 series, including participation in the appropriate undergraduate course in that field. Also includes individual meetings with the faculty sponsor, who may stipulate additional requirements.
SOCIOL 205B Supervised Preparatory Course Work: Race and Ethnic Relations 3 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: Individual conferences, as well as class at10dance.
Prerequisites: Consultation with and approval of regular faculty member responsible.
Introductory study of a sociological field, among those listed in the 280 series, including participation in the appropriate undergraduate course in that field. Also includes individual meetings with the faculty sponsor, who may stipulate additional requirements.
SOCIOL 205C Supervised Preparatory Course Work: Political Sociology 3 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: Individual conferences, as well as class at10dance.
Prerequisites: Consultation with and approval of regular faculty member responsible.
Introductory study of a sociological field, among those listed in the 280 series, including participation in the appropriate undergraduate course in that field. Also includes individual meetings with the faculty sponsor, who may stipulate additional requirements.
SOCIOL 205D Supervised Preparatory Course Work: Organizations 3 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: Individual conferences, as well as class at10dance.
Prerequisites: Consultation with and approval of regular faculty member responsible.
Introductory study of a sociological field, among those listed in the 280 series, including participation in the appropriate undergraduate course in that field. Also includes individual meetings with the faculty sponsor, who may stipulate additional requirements.
SOCIOL 205E Supervised Preparatory Course Work: Industrial Sociology 3 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: Individual conferences, as well as class at10dance.
Prerequisites: Consultation with and approval of regular faculty member responsible.
Introductory study of a sociological field, among those listed in the 280 series, including participation in the appropriate undergraduate course in that field. Also includes individual meetings with the faculty sponsor, who may stipulate additional requirements.
SOCIOL 205F Supervised Preparatory Course Work: Family 3 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: Individual conferences, as well as class at10dance.
Prerequisites: Consultation with and approval of regular faculty member responsible.
Introductory study of a sociological field, among those listed in the 280 series, including participation in the appropriate undergraduate course in that field. Also includes individual meetings with the faculty sponsor, who may stipulate additional requirements.
SOCIOL 205G Supervised Preparatory Course Work: Social Stratification and Class Analysis 3 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: Individual conferences, as well as class at10dance.
Prerequisites: Consultation with and approval of regular faculty member responsible.
Introductory study of a sociological field, among those listed in the 280 series, including participation in the appropriate undergraduate course in that field. Also includes individual meetings with the faculty sponsor, who may stipulate additional requirements.
SOCIOL 205H Supervised Preparatory Course Work: Development 3 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: Individual conferences, as well as class at10dance.
Prerequisites: Consultation with and approval of regular faculty member responsible.
Introductory study of a sociological field, among those listed in the 280 series, including participation in the appropriate undergraduate course in that field. Also includes individual meetings with the faculty sponsor, who may stipulate additional requirements.
SOCIOL 205I Supervised Preparatory Course Work: Religion 3 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: Individual conferences, as well as class at10dance.
Prerequisites: Consultation with and approval of regular faculty member responsible.
Introductory study of a sociological field, among those listed in the 280 series, including participation in the appropriate undergraduate course in that field. Also includes individual meetings with the faculty sponsor, who may stipulate additional requirements.
SOCIOL 205J Supervised Preparatory Course Work: Urban Sociology 3 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: Individual conferences, as well as class at10dance.
Prerequisites: Consultation with and approval of regular faculty member responsible.
Introductory study of a sociological field, among those listed in the 280 series, including participation in the appropriate undergraduate course in that field. Also includes individual meetings with the faculty sponsor, who may stipulate additional requirements.
SOCIOL 205K Supervised Preparatory Course Work: Social Psychology 3 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: Individual conferences, as well as class at10dance.
Prerequisites: Consultation with and approval of regular faculty member responsible.
Introductory study of a sociological field, among those listed in the 280 series, including participation in the appropriate undergraduate course in that field. Also includes individual meetings with the faculty sponsor, who may stipulate additional requirements.
SOCIOL 205L Supervised Preparatory Course Work: Gender 3 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: Individual conferences, as well as class at10dance.
Prerequisites: Consultation with and approval of regular faculty member responsible.
Introductory study of a sociological field, among those listed in the 280 series, including participation in the appropriate undergraduate course in that field. Also includes individual meetings with the faculty sponsor, who may stipulate additional requirements.
SOCIOL 205M Supervised Preparatory Course Work: Culture 3 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: Individual conferences, as well as class at10dance.
Prerequisites: Consultation with and approval of regular faculty member responsible.
Introductory study of a sociological field, among those listed in the 280 series, including participation in the appropriate undergraduate course in that field. Also includes individual meetings with the faculty sponsor, who may stipulate additional requirements.
SOCIOL 205N Supervised Preparatory Course Work: Education 3 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: Individual conferences, as well as class at10dance.
Prerequisites: Consultation with and approval of regular faculty member responsible.
Introductory study of a sociological field, among those listed in the 280 series, including participation in the appropriate undergraduate course in that field. Also includes individual meetings with the faculty sponsor, who may stipulate additional requirements.
SOCIOL 205O Supervised Preparatory Course Work: Health and Medicine 3 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: Individual conferences, as well as class at10dance.
Prerequisites: Consultation with and approval of regular faculty member responsible.
Introductory study of a sociological field, among those listed in the 280 series, including participation in the appropriate undergraduate course in that field. Also includes individual meetings with the faculty sponsor, who may stipulate additional requirements.
SOCIOL 205P Supervised Preparatory Course Work: Area Studies 3 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: Individual conferences, as well as class at10dance.
Prerequisites: Consultation with and approval of regular faculty member responsible.
Introductory study of a sociological field, among those listed in the 280 series, including participation in the appropriate undergraduate course in that field. Also includes individual meetings with the faculty sponsor, who may stipulate additional requirements.
Course may be repeated for credit as topic varies. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
SOCIOL 205Q Supervised Preparatory Course Work: Economy and Society 3 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: Individual conferences, as well as class at10dance.
Prerequisites: Consultation with and approval of regular faculty member responsible.
Introductory study of a sociological field, among those listed in the 280 series, including participation in the appropriate undergraduate course in that field. Also includes individual meetings with the faculty sponsor, who may stipulate additional requirements.
SOCIOL 205R Supervised Preparatory Course Work: Professions 3 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: Individual conferences, as well as class at10dance.
Prerequisites: Consultation with and approval of regular faculty member responsible.
Introductory study of a sociological field, among those listed in the 280 series, including participation in the appropriate undergraduate course in that field. Also includes individual meetings with the faculty sponsor, who may stipulate additional requirements.
SOCIOL 205S Supervised Preparatory Course Work: Social Movements 3 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: Individual conferences, as well as class at10dance.
Prerequisites: Consultation with and approval of regular faculty member responsible.
Introductory study of a sociological field, among those listed in the 280 series, including participation in the appropriate undergraduate course in that field. Also includes individual meetings with the faculty sponsor, who may stipulate additional requirements.
SOCIOL 205T Supervised Preparatory Course Work: Theory 3 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: Individual conferences, as well as class at10dance.
Prerequisites: Consultation with and approval of regular faculty member responsible.
Introductory study of a sociological field, among those listed in the 280 series, including participation in the appropriate undergraduate course in that field. Also includes individual meetings with the faculty sponsor, who may stipulate additional requirements.
SOCIOL 205U Supervised Preparatory Course Work: Society and Environment 3 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: Individual conferences, as well as class at10dance.
Prerequisites: Consultation with and approval of regular faculty member responsible.
Introductory study of a sociological field, among those listed in the 280 series, including participation in the appropriate undergraduate course in that field. Also includes individual meetings with the faculty sponsor, who may stipulate additional requirements.
SOCIOL 205V Supervised Preparatory Course Work: Society and Technology 3 Units
Department: Sociology
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: Individual conferences, as well as class at10dance.
Prerequisites: Consultation with and approval of regular faculty member responsible.
Introductory study of a sociological field, among those listed in the 280 series, including participation in the appropriate undergraduate course in that field. Also includes individual meetings with the faculty sponsor, who may stipulate additional requirements.
SOCIOL 271A Methods of Sociological Research 4 Units