2017-2018 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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PSYC 358 - Stereotypes and Prejudice
This graduate level course provides an introduction to the social psychology of stereotypes and
prejudice. Students will explore a variety of topics regarding stereotypes and prejudice,
including cognitive processing (e.g., categorization, activation, application), content and
structure, expression, sociostructural causes and consequences (e.g., power, status, threat), and
their reduction or elimination (e.g., prejudice reduction, intergroup interactions, social change).
Further, students will engage both theoretical and metatheoretical debates in the field of
stereotypes and prejudice and will develop a critical approach to assessing empirical research.
The goals of this course are to (1) provide students with an in-depth understanding of
stereotypes and prejudice and how they affect social and political reality, (2) critically examine
theory and metatheory guiding research on stereotypes and prejudice, (3) learn how researchers
study stereotypes and prejudice, and (4) develop a research proposal or review paper.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Fall or Spring
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PSYC 361 - Human Neuropsychology
This course provides a broad overview of neuropsychology for undergraduate and graduate students. The goal of the course is to provide students with knowledge of brain and behavior relationships. Students will learn how the brain governs primary cognitive domains such as memory, attention, executive functions, and intelligence. We will also examine the neuropsychological tests used to evaluate the various cognitive domains, students will become familiar with the format and type of information provided in neuropsychological reports, and we will discuss some of the disorders typically seen in individuals referred for neuropsychological evaluations such as dementias, traumatic brain injury, learning disabilities, ADHD etc.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every other year
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PSYC 363 - Knowledge, Development & Instruction
This is an advanced seminar that combines an in-depth examination of research in cognitive development and the learning sciences, with classroom-based research in a public school setting. The course will revolve around a research project conducted in partnership with the Woodland Academy, a public school located near Clark University. We will develop and pilot teaching interventions for preschoolers and kindergartners focusing on developing their knowledge of objects and materials (e.g., the same kind of object can be made of different kinds of materials); weight (e.g., the weight of an object depends on its size and the material it is made of); amount of “stuff” (if you change the shape of a ball of Playdough or divide it into several pieces, do you still have the same amount of clay); and number. Students in this course will produce critical literature reviews, conduct clinical interviews with the children at Woodland Academy, and participate in the design, implementation, and assessment of the teaching interventions. The research project will be based on existing learning progressions for key concepts in math and science, and will contribute to refining those learning progressions. Classroom talk will be an important aspect of our observations, interviews, and interventions. Students in this course will also read on and discuss different topics in cognitive development and in classroom discourse—e.g., the development of numerical skills physical knowledge, and reasoning skills, epistemological and ontological development, and the relation between language and thought. Students need some schedule flexibility in order to participate in the part of the research conducted at Woodland Academy.
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PSYC 364 - Seminar: Diversity Issues
This course examines the sociocultural context of human behavior with a particular focus on issues of diversity in the clinical setting. This course fulfills the Massachusetts State Licensing Board requirement for training in issues of cultural diversity.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every other year.
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PSYC 365 - Psychology of Men
Explores topics related to the social learning and social construction of masculinity and the male gender role in different social contexts including families, friendships, mental and physical health, sports, and intimate relationships.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered periodically
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PSYC 367 - Narrative and Friendship
Employing a capstone-format, this course examines the use of narrative as an increasingly influential and integrating paradigm within psychology, the social sciences, and the humanities. Our topic this semester will be the conceptual foundations of the narrative perspective including methods of analysis, and their application to the theme of Friendship. The participants will be given the opportunity to explore ‘Friendship’ in the form of a group project from a perspective of their own choosing, in which narrative serves as a basic analytic and organizing principle.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Annually
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PSYC 368 - Contemporary Families
The goal of this seminar is to engage students in the major theories, empirical research, and current controversies on contemporary families. Contemporary families are notably diverse, varying in terms of their racial/ethnic makeup, number of parents, gender of parents, biological relatedness among family members, and many other factors. In turn, modern families are the subject of considerable debate and discussion, with questions centering on whether “the family” is in transition or in decline, whether certain families are more valid than others, and so on. This seminar will examine the varied contextual forces and social locations that are fundamentally intertwined with, and serve to shape, family life (e.g., race, social class), as well as the many forms that contemporary families take (e.g., single-parent families, lesbian/gay-parent families, adoptive families). Special attention is paid to timely but understudied topics related to family life, such as the influence of reproductive technologies (e.g., donor insemination) and information technologies and social media (e.g., text messaging, the internet) on family life. This course will also emphasize the major theoretical perspectives that have been used to understand and theorize about families. Finally, media representations of diverse families, as well as resources aimed at addressing the needs of diverse families, will be examined and critiqued based on the empirical literature. This advanced seminar is ideal for students who wish to gain an in-depth understanding of family complexity and diversity, especially those who are interested in working with families in research or applied settings.
The goal of this seminar is to engage students in the major theories, empirical research, and current controversies on contemporary families. This seminar will examine the varied contextual forces and social locations that are fundamentally intertwined with, and serve to shape, family life (e.g., race, social class), as well as the many forms that contemporary families take (e.g., single-parent families, gay-parent families, adoptive families). Special attention is paid to timely but understudied topics related to family life, such as the influence of reproductive technologies (e.g., donor insemination) and information technologies and social media (e.g., text messaging, the internet) on family life. This course will also emphasize the major theoretical perspectives that have been used to understand and theorize about families.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered periodically
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PSYC 372 - How to Make an Activist
This capstone seminar explores the question, “what makes an activist” by examining the psychology of social/political activism and political engagement in the U.S. context. Why do some people want to change the world, and how can psychological theories help us better understand activism in the world, and in our own lives? It is not necessary for you to consider yourself an activist (or want to be an activist) in order to take this course. Together we will read empirical and theoretical work examining these questions, and make connections to the world around us. If you are involved with community-based work, or curious about why other people are, this course presents an opportunity to explore these issues from an interdisciplinary psychological perspective. The emphasis will be on how psychological processes and engagement are shaped by social context (history, social and cultural location) and individual differences (including not only personality, but also gender, race, sexuality, class, etc.).
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PSYC 375 - Societal Approaches to Thinking
This capstone seminar provides a theoretical and methodological frame for studying how thinking is shaped by the societal context in which the person is situated, by the social location the person occupies in that context, by the cultural discourses in which he/she participates, and by the nature of what is being thought about. The seminar draws from readings from interdisciplinary sources, including psychology. We start with illustrative works from developmental psychology, sociocultural psychology and social psychology that approach thinking and reasoning in their social and cultural contexts. We also examine some works that do not emphasize the social context of thinking but that examine everyday thinking about social problems. We then discuss interdisciplinary writings that emphasize how societies and cultures are structured internally in terms of gender, race and class, and we examine empirical research on thinking and on personal epistemology that is grounded in this kind of societal framework. The last class of the semester will be a symposium in which each student will present her or his final paper in a 15-minute formal presentation, followed by class discussion.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered periodically
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PSYC 377 - Masculinities and Violence
This capstone seminar will focus on how masculinities interact with several forms of human violence. The course will begin with an examination of sociocultural and evolutionary theories of gender and masculinity, and we will debate the strengths and weakness of different perspectives. Each subsequent week will focus on a different form of human violence, including homicide, sexual assault, war and terrorism, bullying, sports, and others. The primary task of our discussions will be to examine how different forms of masculinity provoke, attenuate, or respond to human violence. Although our primary focus will be on understanding human violence, we will also examine efforts and solutions to reducing or eliminating violence (e.g., sexual assault prevention, suicide prevention, and pacifism). This seminar will be discussion based, interspersed with mini-lectures, activities, and media presentations. Students will also work toward developing a theoretically-grounded anti-violence intervention throughout the semester.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Bi-annually
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PSYC 384 - Culture and Human Development
How do behaviors pertaining to infant attachment, puberty, and romantic love vary from culture to culture? How do views of respect for parental authority, the value of autonomy, and the meaning of being an adult vary from culture to culture? And how do such behaviors and views intersect with psychological conceptions of what is healthy vs. unhealthy, normal vs. abnormal? In the course “Culture and Human Development” (Psych 384), we examine the ways an individual’s psychological and social development takes place in cultural context, from infancy to adulthood. Readings include qualitative and quantitative studies of different parts of the life span in diverse cultures (globally and within the United States). While most readings are drawn from psychology, some readings are by anthropologists, legal scholars, and literary authors. Course content has implications for theoretical, research, and applied purposes. The course format is highly interactive, including discussion of readings, class exercises, guest visitors who grew up in different cultures, films, and student presentations. Course Requirements: For clinical psychology Ph.D. students, this course satisfies the “social” APA requirement. For developmental psychology Ph.D. students, it satisfies the developmental graduate seminar requirement. Graduate students from all other programs and departments are welcome.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered periodically
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PSYC 386 - Advanced Topics in Social Development
This capstone seminar explores various topics in social development.
Fall 2016
This course will explore theories and research in social and personality development. Beginning in infancy and moving through adolescence, we will examine how children form connections with others and become part of a social world while at the same time becoming individuals with unique experiences, perspectives, and self-concepts. For each session there will be substantive areas covered (e.g., peer influences, parenting, gender roles) as well as focus on a specific methodological/ statistical issue in developmental research (e.g., measuring change).
This course may be repeatable for credit.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered periodically
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PSYC 387 - Ethics in Clinical Psychology
This course will address a range of ethical issues faced by clinical psychologists. Among the questions that we will grapple with are, What constitutes confidentiality in therapeutic relationships? How do the ethical guidelines regarding confidentiality differ for adults versus minors? What is the duty to warn and when is it necessary? What are common ethical dilemmas in the initiation and termination of therapeutic relationships with mental health consumers? What are the tensions between ethical standards in clinical research versus clinical practice? For first-year clinical students.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
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PSYC 389 - Clinical Workshop
Clinical Workshop provides an opportunity for all clinical students and faculty to hear outside speakers present on topics of clinical relevance (first semester) and for students to present and receive feedback on their clinical cases (second semester). The agenda for the series is organized by the Clinical Coordinator in consultation with the Director of Clinical Training. This seminar is required of all clinical students for the first four years of their program.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every semester.
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PSYC 393 - Historical Background of Contemporary Psychology
Includes an appreciation of the generative ideas and world hypotheses underlying contemporary psychological approaches and traces the earlier manifestations of these ideas and world hypotheses in intellectual history or history of ideas. Instructor’s permission.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered periodically
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PSYC 395 - Social Science Research to Influence Public Policy
The purpose of this course is to teach students strategies for using their research knowledge to influence public policy decisions, particularly at the state level. Students will also be involved in the planning and implementation of the Family Impact Seminar, a seminar where Clark faculty and their colleagues present research to state legislators at an annual symposium at the State House in Boston in late March. Students will learn the importance of using research to influence public policy, the challenges in translating research into a format that is relevant to policymakers, and strategies for overcoming those challenges.
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PSYC 396 - What Children Know
Examines the evolution of children’s knowledge about the physical world; the biological world; language, number and other symbolic systems; and the social world. How do infants’ and children’s perceptual and cognitive abilities interact with input from caretakers to advance their knowledge? How do symbolic systems such as language and writing get internalized? Related topics are the evolution of language in the human species, the history of number and writing systems and animal cognition.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered periodically.
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PSYC 398 - Clinical Internship
This course allows graduate students in the clinical psychology training program who are completing their APA approved internship. Permission of the Director of Clinical Training is required.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every semester
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PSYC 399 - Directed Study
Advanced readings or research under the direction of a department faculty member. Offered for variable credit.
Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every semester
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PSYC 1090 - Qualitative Methods
Covers the principles of engagement in qualitative inquiry-with particular emphasis on observing, interviewing, and analyzing people in interaction. Classes take the form of a mix between lecture and discussion, supplemented by an individually conducted observation project, and an interview that is carried out as a small group project.
Anticipated Terms Offered: varies
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PSYC 1320 - Developmental Psychology
This course provides a comprehensive overview of human psychological development from the prenatal period through the entire lifespan. History, theory, and methods specific to developmental study will be discussed to lay the groundwork for the state of the field, in addition to a broad overview of current research and theory specific to developmental issues. The importance of culture and context will also be emphasized throughout the course. Students will learn the basic skills necessary for scientific and psychological writing, and in general will become critical consumers of research on human development.
Anticipated Terms Offered: varies
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PSYC 1480 - Introduction to Clinical & Counseling Psychology
Provides an overview of psychologists role in contemporary culture. This course critically examines various theories of cognitive, educational and personality assessment. It reviews theories of intervention and change with attention to their assumptions concerning normal and normative behavior and assesses current directions in health psychology.
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PSYC 1520 - Adolescent Development
This course is designed to introduce you to the research and theory of adolescent and early/emerging adulthood development. We will discuss topics such as change vs. stability in personlity, transitions into long-term relationships/parenthood, and media use in adolescence. We will explore the biological, social, emotional, and cognitive aspects of development, paying particular attention to the contextual factors that direct and inform developmental outcomes. An overarching theme will involve the consideration of how cultural factors and the social world influence development.
Anticipated Terms Offered: varies
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PSYC 1560 - Cultural Psychology
Provides a survey of theory, methods and research in culture and psychology. We will discuss different definitions of culture, and consider what the different definitions imply for how culture should be studied. Cross-cultural psychology and cultural psychology provide two general frameworks for addressing the complex question of how culture informs human action and experience. We will examine these approaches and explore the role of culture across a range of areas, including perceptual and cognitive processes, human development, identity and emotion. Issues concerning cultural contact and intercultural relations will be considered, and we will explore cultural phenomena such as the cultural organization of the environment, tourism and pilgrimage, burial processes, and music.
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PSYC 1580 - Cultural Perspectives in Child Learning and Development
This course provides a study of child learning and development from a cultural and contextual perspective - childrearing, social relations, interdependence and autonomy, developmental transitions across the lifespan, gender roles, attachment, and learning and cognitive development. It also focuses on how culture interacts with human development and identifies patterns in the differences and similarities among cultural communities. Course readings will include researches and theories from cultural and developmental psychology, anthropology, education and history.”
Anticipated Terms Offered: NA
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PSYC 1590 - Cultural Diversity in Psychology
This course will provide students with an introductory overview of cultural diversity in psychology. Throughout the course, students will learn theories, research, and practical implications when dealing with cultural diversity in psychology. Therefore, students will be exposed to a range of constructs and be able to apply them in research and clinical practice.
Anticipated Terms Offered: varies
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PSYC 1690 - Psychology of Buddhism
This course will provide and overview of Buddhist thought and its significance for psychology. The three main branches of Buddhism will be represented: the essential teachings of Theravada as its base, the rich philosophical understanding of the nature of reality (Mahayana) and the esoteric tantric vehicle ( Vajrayana) made accessible to Westerners today by virtue of the Tibetan diaspora. We will study this encompassing and comprehensive system for what it tells about the nature of the person, mind, and reality in relation to our understanding of human psychology. In addition, we will explicitly consider the relationship to Western psychology in praxis and theory.
Program of Liberal Studies (PLS) Designation: VP (summer only)
Anticipated Terms Offered: varies
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PSYC 1700 - Social Psychology
Provides a systematic introduction to the field of social psychology, which studies how the thoughts, feelings and actions of a person are influenced by other people and social situations. We will explore the power of situations, culture and context, as well as how people individually react and think about certain social situations.
Anticipated Terms Offered: various
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PSYC 1710 - Psychology of Religion
An investigation of religion and religious traditions through the lens of psychology. We will be investigating religious beliefs, experiences, and behavior through an examination of psychological research and theory, both historical and contemporary. We will be drawing on a diversity of psychological approaches, such as biological, developmental, social, cognitive, cultural, and humanistic.
Anticipated Terms Offered: varies
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PSYC 1730 - Abnormal Psychology
This course begins with a discussion of the manner in which abnormal behavior has been traditionally defined and the implications of these definitions. A comprehensive overview of the major categories of abnormal behavioral disorders is then provided with an emphasis on theory and research (e.g., schizophrenia, affective disorders, substance abuse, eating disorders, etc.). Special attention is paid to issues of assessment, intervention, and prevention.
Anticipated Terms Offered: varies
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PSYC 2100 - Diagnosis and Treatment of Persons With Co-occurring Disorders
Explores the diagnostic and treatment challenges posed by co-occurring mental illness and substance abuse disorders. There will be strong emphasis on increasing awareness of self and others, as well as development of clinical applications. Concepts and theories behind addictive and psychiatric disorders and their treatment process will be covered.
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PSYC 2200 - Recovery and Relapse Prevention in Mental Illness and Addiction
Mental Health and Addiction Services are increasingly organized according to principles of recovery outlined in the President’s New Freedom Commission Report. The course provides an overview of recovery-oriented approaches to care, psychosocial rehabilitation and relapse prevention. Students will be introduced to stages-of-change theory, motivational interviewing, Cognitive Behavior Therapy based skills and cognitive-behavioral analysis as applied to relapse cycles. The second half of the course will explore problem-specific evidence-based interventions that are consistent with recovery principles.
Anticipated Terms Offered: various
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PSYC 2300 - Psychology of Human Learning
Emphasizes both theoretical understanding and practical application of theories and research findigs. Topics include how people process information in daily living, the use of learning style in educational methods and career choice, and the effect of emotions on perception and memory.
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PSYC 2390 - Psychology of Human Motivation
Students evaluate the different psychological theories of motivation from a phenomenological perspective. Each theory is evaluated in terms of an experiential matrix. Assists the student in his/her attempt to make sense of what comes under the rubric of motivation. Behavior modification and management strategies commonly used in clinics and the workplace are critically examined.
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PSYC 2420 - Psychology of Religion
An investigation of religion and religious traditions through the lens of psychology. We will be investigating religious beliefs, experiences, and behavior through an examination of psychological research and theory, both historical and contemporary. We will be drawing on a diversity of psychological approaches, such as biological, developmental, social, cognitive, cultural, and humanistic.
Anticipated Terms Offered: varies
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PSYC 2580 - Emerging Adulthood:Development from Late Teens thorough the Twenties
This course focuses on development from ages 18 to 29, a period of the life course now known as “emerging adulthood.” Topics explored include family relationships, friendships, love and sexuality, school and work transitions, religious beliefs, and views of what it means to become an adult. The course is international in scope, highlighting differences between industrialized and developing countries. Perspectives from psychology, sociology and anthropology are considered.”
Anticipated Terms Offered: NA
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PSYC 2910 - Psychology of Mindfulness and Meditation
We will examine the intersection between contemplative practice such as mindfulness meditation and recent empirical research in cognitive neuroscience, affective science, and clinical psychology. Emphasis will be placed on the history and origins of mindfulness practices, the scientific study of the practices, and adaptations of mindfulness practices by Western scientists for the treatment of psychological disorders and enhancement of well-being.
Key questions this course will address include: 1) What is contemplative practice and how does mindfulness influence psychological well-being? 2) What are the historical origins of mindfulness practices and how have such practices been adapted by Western scientists? 3) How does Western empirical inquiry inform our understanding of mindfulness (i.e. mechanisms)?
Program of Liberal Studies (PLS) Designation: VP (summer only)
Anticipated Terms Offered: Varies
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SCIS 1960 - Introduction to Forensic Anthropology
This course provides a broad overview of forensic anthropology-an applied field of biological anthropology. Forensic anthropology is the application of the science of physical/biological anthropology to the legal process. The identification of skeletal human remains is important for both legal and humanitarian reasons. Forensic anthropologists work to determine age, sex, ancestry, stature and unique features from the skeleton. While proficiency in forensic methods will not be the focus of this course, general identification techniques will be addressed. A combination of readings from the assigned textbook and articles assigned by the instructor will form the basis of class lecture and discussion.
Anticipated Terms Offered: varied
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SCIS 2050 - Forensic Science
What is forensic science? Is it really what we see on CSI and other similar shows? We will answer these questions as well as examine the major issues surrounding forensic science, its capabilities as well as its weaknesses. We will combine the technical aspects of several of the individual disciplines within forensic science with the major current issues pertaining to each particular discipline. We will look closely at the National Academy of Science’s (NAS) publication Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States- A Path Forward which will have a tremendous impact on the future of forensic science. You won’t be a forensic scientist when the course is over but you will be well educated and knowledgeable about the basics of forensic sciences and be able to judge for yourself the credibility of the science used in crime scene investigation.
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SCRN 101 - Foundations of Screen Studies
Introduction to film and related screen media, with emphasis on critical thought and analysis. The course begins with attention to aspects of filmmaking activities - such as cinematography, editing and sound - then explores more contextual screen areas such as art film traditions, screen genres, auteur theory, gender and representation, etc. Students actively analyze films in detail to foster an understanding of screen styles and meanings. Fulfills prerequisites for advanced screen-studies courses.
Program of Liberal Studies (PLS) Designation: AP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every semester
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SCRN 108 - Intro to Screenwriting
This course is centered on the art and craft of screenwriting–both the theory behind the work, and the application of that theory. Students will be expected to write consistently throughout the term, a minimum of 10 hours a week, and complete a revised, polished feature-length screenplay by the end of term. Students will also be expected to expand their film vocabulary through viewing selected films and reading the course texts. The goal of this course is to provide a full understanding of the theories and principles behind writing for the screen–and to provide a structure in which those principles and theories can be applied.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every other spring
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SCRN 114 - Writing About Film: Methods of Film Analysis
Considers a variety of critical methods for the analysis and interpretation of film. The course considers several important kinds of writing about film, including journalistic film criticism and analysis based in film theory. Students actively practice all of these modes of writing to acquire the analytic skills used in upper-level courses. The major critical approaches or methodologies of film studies such as formalist criticism, genre criticism, auteur criticism and forms of ideological criticism are explored in coordination with weekly films.
Program of Liberal Studies (PLS) Designation: VE
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every spring
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SCRN 120 - History of U.S. Film Since 1960
The history of post-WWII American cinema is the story of an ongoing series of adjustments to (or developments within the context of) instability in postwar film business: film noir, 3-D, biblical epics, blockbusters, art film influences, “new blood” from TV and film schools, Black filmmaking, revisionist genre films, high-concept filmmaking, etc. Further complicating this process of adjustments, cinema was overlaid onto, and consequently influenced by, the political turmoil within American society in general: the “Red Scare,” the Vietnam War, the emergence of a mass counterculture, the antiwar movement, Watergate, Reaganomics, the end of the Cold War and increasingly vocal demands by women and minorities for social equality (and media representation).
Program of Liberal Studies (PLS) Designation: HP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every other year
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SCRN 121 - History of International Cinema Until 1960
Broad survey designed to acquaint students with major foreign movements in cinema history. Includes readings on and screenings of examples selected from Italian silent epics, French Impressionism, German Expressionist and Weimar cinema, Soviet montage school, Soviet socialist realism, British documentary school, Nazi cinema, Italian neorealism, Japanese classical cinema and French New Wave.
Program of Liberal Studies (PLS) Designation: AP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every other year
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SCRN 122 - History of American Broadcasting and Electronic Media
This course considers how broadcasting and electronic media have been developed over the past century. We will examine the technical achievements of the field as well as its social and aesthetic impacts from early electrical and wireless communication (telephone, radio) to mid-century inventions (television, satellites) and more recent innovations (cable, digital technology). We will sample a wide range of media productions, including early radio and TV shows, documentaries and current media phenomena. Students will do some of their own historical research on broadcasting to supplement the course material.
Program of Liberal Studies (PLS) Designation: HP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every other semester
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SCRN 123 - Factual Film and Television
FALL 2016 - Focusing on the recent found-footage craze in film and television, this seminar theorizes the various tactics through which contemporary media deceive audiences precisely by telling the truth-delivering content that seduces by appearing actual, or “really real.” Beginning with a close reading of four notable found-footage films-The Blair Witch Project (1999), Paranormal Activity (2007), Cloverfield (2008) and Chronicle (2012)-we will go on to establish the historical, aesthetic, and generic contexts that have made such films possible. Special attention will be paid to media texts that are notorious for having taken liberties with the truth, such as Nanook of the North (1922), “The War of the Worlds” radio drama (1938), David Holzman’s Diary (1967), F for Fake (1973), The Thin Blue Line (1988), and Ghostwatch (1992, TV). During the last five weeks of the course, the seminar will shift into a hands-on workshop phase, in which students will conceive, write, shoot, and edit their own short found-footage pseudo-documentary-a film that is wholly fictional yet purports to be real. Students wishing to enroll should note that this is not in any sense a “film appreciation” course, but instead a serious, rigorous course in Film and Media Studies. The major workload of the seminar will comprise a series of written analyses based on weekly screenings, in which students will grapple not only with narrative (i.e. scripted plots), but also with the intricacies of film form (i.e., editing, sound, cinematography, lighting, production design, and so on).
Program of Liberal Studies (PLS) Designation: AP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered periodically
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SCRN 124 - History of International Cinema Since 1960
Considers the proliferation and significance since the 1960s of new cinemas outside Europe, as well as major social, industrial, technological, and cultural changes in Western countries supporting alternatives to Hollywood entertainment. Surveys major developments in contemporary international cinema from the mid-1960s to the present, emphasizing both historical study of contexts and critical interpretation of individual films and broader film trends. Begins with politically-critical filmmaking in the Soviet bloc countries and in the developing countries of Latin America and Africa. Subsequently, the course explores aesthetic and industry trends in European and Asian cinemas, selected from the New German cinema movement, pan-European “quality” films, the Dogme 95 movement, Parallel Cinema in India, the Hong Kong New Wave, and China’s Fifth Generation filmmakers. The significant but problematic concept of national cinema is investigated throughout the course.
Prerequisites: SCRN 101 or Permission.
Program of Liberal Studies (PLS) Designation: GP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every other year.
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SCRN 131 - Film Noir and its Contexts
An in-depth study of this highly influential yet much debated category of American cinema. This course considers the status of film noir as a genre, European and American influences, visual and narrative techniques, cultural contexts such as existentialism, psychoanalysis, and postmodernism, and articulations of gender and race in studio-era and contemporary noir. Weekly class screenings are accompanied by out-of-class film viewing and by course readings drawn from a broad variety of historical, analytical, and theoretical studies.
Program of Liberal Studies (PLS) Designation: AP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered periodically
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SCRN 140 - Film Authors and Authorship
Examines the theory and practice of film authorship through a consideration of works by major American and international film authors. Studies historical development of the idea of film directors as authors in Europe and the United States. Emphasizes the impact of such theories on the study of various American figures, which may include Hawks, Ford, Hitchcock and Coppola, as well as international figures. Also examines the formation of film authorship in emerging cultural contexts, such as women’s cinema and new national cinemas.
Program of Liberal Studies (PLS) Designation: AP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered periodically
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SCRN 209 - Genre Production Workshop
This digital filmmaking course is offered as an advanced level production workshop primarily for Visual and Performing Arts students in their junior or senior years. It builds upon the foundations of cinematic analysis and practice established in the first few years of the Screen major sequence, as well as the introductory sequences of the other programs in the department: Music, Theater, Studio Art, Art History, and MCA. Enrolled students from diverse backgrounds in the arts will work collectively on a single original short film project. The project will showcase each student’s disciplinary training in areas such as directing, producing, acting, cinematography, production design, editing, original music, and sound design. With an equal emphasis placed on theory and practice, this film production workshop employs hands-on demonstrations, screenings, readings, lectures, discussions, and peer-based critiques to assist students in the creative process. Classes stress research, form, style, and technique as integral components of creative inter-media practice.
Note: The genre focus each term may vary. The topic for Spring 2018 is Film Noir. Enrollment is subject to professor approval; interested students should email the professor.
Students will be charged a V & PA lab fee upon registering for this course.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered periodically
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SCRN 210 - Experimental Production Workshop: Glitch Aesthetics
Whether appearing in the realm of still images, sound recordings, video, or other media, Glitch Art seeks to disrupt the data behind a digital representation in such a way that its simulation of analog can no longer remain covert. Sometimes intentional and sometimes accidental, a glitch flamboyantly undoes the communications platforms that we, as subjects of digital culture, both rely on and take for granted. In this course, students will investigate, theorize, and collaboratively work to produce Glitch Art in its various evolving forms. The course will thus offer both a formal survey of the history and theory of Glitch Art (including some proto-glitch forms and movements) and a workshop for providing critique and inspiration to individual artists. Because Glitch Art typically aims to render digital files unstable-triggering a partial failure of the software that “plays back” encoded sounds and images-the nature of our artistic practice will necessarily be unruly, our output unpredictable. Disciplinary boundaries will be crossed with impunity and oftentimes entirely ignored. In this course, a musician may try her hand at glitchy photography, while a graphic designer may collaborate with a sculptor on a glitched music video. Prior experience with digital technology and software may prove useful in some students’ work, but not in others. “Glitch Aesthetics” is the fourth in a series of Creative InterMedia courses developed by faculty in the Department of Visual and Performing Arts, and seeks to enroll juniors and seniors from each of the five V&PA majors: Art History, Music, Screen Studies, Studio Art, and Theater Arts. Students will be evaluated on the basis of an online portfolio of works in various media, as well as a substantial term project of the student’s own design, to be presented in a public group exhibition at end of term. Enrollment is by permission only and will be limited to 3-5 students per major; please contact the instructor prior to or during the registration period to discuss your eligibility.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Spring 2014
Placement Guidelines
This course (along with “Genre Production Workshop”) requires V&PA students to apply to the instructor for admission during the previous semester’s registration period, demonstrating through a portfolio, short interview, or transcript that they are serious and adequately prepared. Course is listed “PERM ONLY” and will be restricted to V&PA juniors and seniors.
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SCRN 217 - Cult Logics
Twin Peaks and Mystery Science Theater 3000. Punk Rock and Hello Kitty. Johnny Guitar and Eight Diagram Pole Fighter. To study cult fandom is first of all to confront a shopworn cliché about human subjectivity: there’s no accounting for tastes. The cult devotee’s pursuit is by definition a “minor” taste-at once marginal in subject and style, and hard to find as a material object. Cult objects may be passive “sleepers”-films or TV shows we don’t expect to be any good but which turn around and surprise us. More often, however, we encounter cult objects as transgressive confrontations: divisive, rude, and even boring, but above all oblivious to mainstream desires. Cultism frequently valorizes bad taste, excess, and ugliness (or hyper-cuteness, as in Japanese kawaii culture), forcing the beholder to confront their own perversions and anxieties. At the same time, in order to be a bona fide cultist, one has traditionally taken a vow of non-attainment: to pursue the esoteric beyond all reason. But what happens when the well of esoterica runs dry, as it seems to be doing today, with every outré video freely available on Netflix and Amazon? Does the wholesale commodification of cult products (think Hot Topic) paradoxically annihilate the possibility of cult pleasure? By theorizing the self perpetuating beyond-ness of cult fandom, this course will implicitly call into question why cultists desire their own marginalization, subversively refusing conventional enjoyment. One warning however: despite the garish allure of our readings and screenings, this course should not be mistaken as itself providing a “fun” or “entertaining” fan-oriented indulgence in the pleasures of cult representation. Instead, this course will insist on nothing less than your most serious scholarly engagement as we work to theorize cult pleasure, taste, and aesthetics in relation to questions of gender, race, nation, and class. So prepare to enjoy, but also prepare to work hard to understand the weirdness of your own enjoyment.
Prerequisites: SCRN 101 or COMM 101
Anticipated Terms Offered: Periodically
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SCRN 225 - National Cinema
Issues in National and Regional Cinemas. Variable topics.
Fall 2017 Topic: India
This course will provide an overview of a diverse range of film production and consumption practices associated with Indian cinema. We will primarily look at Hindi films from the Bombay film industry but also examine films from regional cinemas, and ones that belong to “art cinema” mode. Through exploration of aesthetics within historical and cultural contexts, we will engage with questions like: What makes Indian cinemas different? What is the aesthetic appeal of Hindi popular cinema? Why does Hindi popular cinema have a mass appeal in a multi lingual and multi-cultural country like India, and assumes the position of national cinema, both within the subcontinent and outside of it? How do these ‘song and dance’ movies challenge our Hollywood-based perceptions of narrative forms? How do Indian films negotiate the polarities of tradition and modernity? What role do phenomenon like globalization, diaspora, neo-liberal economic policy, consumerism, and trans-nationalism play in the evolution of Hindi cinema and its genres over the decades? We will also interrogate the implications, and connotations of the transformation of Hindi popular cinema produced by the Bombay film industry into “Bollywood.” Is this linguistic change an index of social and economic transformations, such as globalization? Is it expressive of an attempt to indicate a difference internal to the dominant idiom, a variation that is related to but distinct from the globally hegemonic Hollywood?
Program of Liberal Studies (PLS) Designation: GP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every other year
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SCRN 231 - Film Theory
This seminar examines a wide range of theories regarding motion picture reception, and to a lesser extent, production. Topics will include classic arguments about the aesthetic purpose of film and the place of authorship in screen texts, as well as more contemporary concerns such as queer theory, cognitivism, and post-structuralism. The course will also take up the anti-theory movement that has arisen in recent years.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every other year
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SCRN 261 - Critical Perspectives on Television
This course explores fundamental questions about the cultural significance of television by considering a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches to television criticism, including ideological analysis, semiotics, political economy, feminist criticism, narrative, genre and critical race theories. In this course, we use these analytic tools to examine the cultural, political, and economic implications of television as a form of social communication. Our goals are (1) to become familiar with the key aspects of each theoretical perspective and (2) to apply these frameworks in our own analyses of television programs. By requiring students to continuously read, view, discuss, and write about critical perspectives on television, this course cultivates a deep understanding for the ideological and structural dynamics that constitute popular culture.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every other year
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SCRN 288 - Gender and Film
Explores the ways that gender is produced by the “social technologies” of film and video. Examines concepts of sexual difference (masculinity and femininity) and organizing representation, narrative and spectatorship in Hollywood and alternative cinemas, and in some television and video. Readings will be primarily theoretical and critical.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every other year
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SCRN 291 - Capstone Course - Variable topics
Advanced studies of specific issues and approaches in screen arts. Topics vary.
Fall 2017 Topic: Resisting Media
The title of this capstone seminar means two things. The first meaning involves the cultural, subcultural, or individual impulse to stand against media, refusing its seductions, calling attention to how it works, and subverting or destroying it. In this mode, seminar members will engage in a series of dialogues about mainstream and alternative moving image media, as well as close readings of relevant works of critical theory. We will explore the ways in which popular media tries to make itself “irresistible,” indoctrinating and maintaining its viewers as consumers, while we work to identify possibilities for resistance on individual, local, national, and international scales. “Resisting Media” also denotes “media that resists,” referring to past and present media objects which themselves work against structures of domination, oppression, and authoritarian rule. The backbone of the course will involve ten weeks of readings, screenings, intensive discussions, and writing assignments. The final five weeks will be dedicated to workshopping students’ capstone projects, which may comprise either a written essay (20+ pages) or a video production (10+ minutes; either narrative, documentary or experimental). Workload and pacing will be intense, commensurate with a senior capstone. Seminar enrollment is guaranteed to seniors in Screen Studies; other majors enroll by permission only.
Prerequisites: SCRN 101 or Permission.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every fall
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SCSV 1090 - The Final Chapter: A Study of Death and Dying
Students will develop an understanding of the death and dying process while exploring their own attitudes, feelings and beliefs. Topics covered include what is dying, the grieving process, children and death, suicide, violent deaths, cultural attitudes and euthanasia. Community resources will also be explored.
Program of Liberal Studies (PLS) Designation: VP (summer only)
Anticipated Terms Offered: -
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SCSV 1130 - Writing to Heal
An exploration of writing as a tool in maintaining health and well being. We will look at the medical and psychological research that supports the belief that writing boosts in the immune system, reduces emotional distress, and lessens physical pain for some people. Through hands-on practice and group sharing we will become familiar with the ways in which the literary arts are tools for personal growth.
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SCSV 1140 - Health, Culture and Illness
Examines the importance of social and cultural factors in the field of medicine. It focuses on: provider self-awareness of health, illness, familiar folk remedies, traditional health beliefs and practices. Also investigated are the relationships between health care professionals, health institutions, patients, the organization and utilization of health services; the comparative examination of health systems from the cross-cultural perspective and the exception of healthcare illness as a social and cultural phenomena.
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SCSV 1180 - Our Aging Society
In the United States today there are more older people in the population than ever before. Many issues offer new challenges as one enters middle and later life but is there a way “successful aging” can be accomplished? With all of these challenges can one truly grow old gracefully? Topics such as diet, exercise, pensions, family life, and housing will be explored. Theories of the aging process will be discussed as we review the study of aging: past, present and future.
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SCSV 1240 - Drugs and Crime in Society
The physiological, psychological and sociological effects of licit and illicit drugs in society will be studied. A law enforcement perspective into the so called “war on drugs”, the success and failures of various drug prevention and replacement therapy programs as well as the roadblock to recovery being created by the criminal justice system and insurance companies will be discussed. Contemporary topics such as whether addiction is a choice or a disease, the pros and cons of legalization and the issue of medicinal marijuana will also be debated.
Anticipated Terms Offered: varies
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SCSV 1600 - Drugs and Alcohol
Students are asked to explore drug use and abuse in American society, the socio-historical origins of drug and alcohol use from a cross-cultural perspective, the effects of formal organizational studies on the drug rehabilitation users, and independent variables such as family, work and income on chemical dependency. Students investigate societys use of legal as well as illegal drugs, and medical vs. recreational use of psychoactive substances.
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SCSV 2060 - Juvenile Delinquency
An examination of delinquency, the suspected causes of delinquent behavior, and the environmental influences of youthful misbehavior. The use of pretrial detention, shock incarceration, mandatory sentencing, and gang control efforts will be analyzed. Topics such as the role of the courts and police, status offenders, juvenile corrections, transfer of juvenile to adult courts and their impact on the Juvenile Justice system are covered.
Anticipated Terms Offered: varies
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SCSV 2080 - Children in Crisis
Explores the sensitive issues surrounding the increasing number of abused children in contemporary American culture. The biological, psychological and sociological factors affecting child abuse are used as the broad conceptual framework for prevention, identification and treatment. Focuses on the etiology of child abuse as well as treatment and the law.
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SCSV 2180 - Interpersonal Communication
This course will utilize theory and practical applications to provide participants with the knowledge and skills necessary to develop interpersonal communication competence and better understand its role in the relationship context. Specific areas of study include: relationship building and maintenance, intercultural communication, conflict management and interpersonal communications in the organization.
Anticipated Terms Offered: various
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SOC 010 - Introduction to Sociology
A broad overview of sociology, its areas of study, modes of inquiry, and context for analysis. This course operates from the premise that individual lives are not just personal but social – as humans we are shaped by the societies in which we live and the social forces at work within them. Major theoretical perspectives and concepts will be discussed, with primary emphasis on the roles that culture, dimensions of inequality, and social change play in shaping individual lives. Students will also explore the influence that social institutions such as family, religion, education, health care, government, economy, and environment have on the ways humans live and work in society. Fulfills introductory course requirement for majors.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every semester
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SOC 012 - Introduction to Sociology in a Global World
Sociology is a discipline that studies the ways in which society shapes our lives, our relationships, and our identities. It traces the web of influence and connection that often escapes our notice because it falls beyond our immediate vision. In other words, much of what we experience (including such diverse activities as falling in love, getting a job, or committing a crime) can be shown to find its source and meaning in broader forces. Sociologists refer to these factors collectively as culture, social structure and history.
In the past two decades, the scope and reach of these forces have broadened. We often refer to this trend as “globalization.” Time and space have compressed and the world has become increasingly interconnected and interdependent. This course is designed to broaden your analytic vision to examine the historical roots and contemporary manifestations of identity culture and community in a world transformed by globalization.
Fulfills the Global Perspective requirement
Anticipated Terms Offered: Periodically
Program of Liberal Studies (PLS) Designation: GP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Periodically
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SOC 033 - Who Rules America?
G. William Domhoff’s Who Rules America? (2014), originally published in 1967 and now in its seventh edition, uses empirical data to document its controversial assertions about the centralization of power in the hands of a “corporate community” in the United States. While enormous amounts of data are available on many of the topics that Domhoff addresses, he is only able to summarize the most basic data on any given topic. This presents us with a tremendous opportunity: the ability to incorporate empirical research projects that expand upon Domhoff’s analyses in this class. In his early chapters, Domhoff uses data to document the existence of a corporate community. Later he spends considerable time documenting a variety of ways that this elite group uses its economic power to gain political power. Specifically, he discusses (1) a policy planning network, comprised of corporate-funded foundations and think tanks, that tries to shape national policy-making to serve corporate interests; (2) the corporate funding of political action committees, designed to support the election/reelection of pro-corporate legislators; and (3) corporate lobbying expenditures, designed to encourage elected officials to support legislation of interest to the corporate community. We will do original “power structure research” on all of these aspects of Domhoff’s argument
Program of Liberal Studies (PLS) Designation: FA
Anticipated Terms Offered: annually
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SOC 107 - Classical Sociological Theory
A critical and comparative survey of the major theorists of early sociology. This course emphasizes the first generation of sociologists, who sought to understand what we have come to call modernity. Beyond this central canon – represented by selected works of Marx, Durkheim, and Weber – the course introduces key theoretical perspectives and related analytical concepts that continue to inform many aspects of social life. Fulfills the social theory requirement for majors.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every semester
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SOC 110 - Sociology of Gender
Focuses on sociological, historical, psychological, and economic dimensions of gender. This course examines the ways in which social institutions create, maintain, and reproduce gender. The course emphasizes the processes through which gender categories are constructed and represented, as well as the consequences of these categories for the lives of individuals.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered periodically
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SOC 125 - Cities and Suburbs
Introduces urban sociology. Examines the historical structure and development of American metropolitan areas and community power, with special attention to changing functions of cities and suburbs. Examines different ways of life in cities and suburbs. Globalization and international comparative perspectives are also examined. (Formerly SOC 247)
Program of Liberal Studies (PLS) Designation: GP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
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SOC 130 - Genocide
Provides students with a comparative perspective that highlights theory and concrete examples of genocide. After surveying legal and social scientific definitions of genocide, we explore four cases of genocide that took place over the course of centuries and across several continents. The course ends with discussion of the prevention of genocide.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
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SOC 160 - Global Cultures and Identities
Explores the impact of local, national, and international forces in the formation of cultural identities at a time of rapid social changes. Focuses on contemporary cultures to examine local and national identities as they are globally determined. Emphasizes the elastic and the plastic nature of cultures and the importance of time, place, and space to understand the emergence of new culturally diverse settings. Examines the nature of social and cultural change in local, national, and global economic and political spaces.
Program of Liberal Studies (PLS) Designation: GP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
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SOC 167 - Problems of Globalization
This course will help students to understand and evaluate the challenges of globalization at the beginning of the 21st century. Students will become familiar with the economic, social, political, and cultural dimensions of the process. They will be exposed to arguments for and against globalization and possible solutions to problems. The course is the sequel to Global Society (IDND 066 ), which lays the theoretical foundation.
Program of Liberal Studies (PLS) Designation: GP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
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SOC 175 - The Sociology of Families
Examines the assumed decline of “the” American family and the recent changes in family formations. Also considers challenges to the new family, such as dual-career couples and the resulting division of labor in the home as well as divorce. Working-class, African-American and homeless families are also discussed.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
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SOC 180 - Aging and Society
This course challenges stereotypes about the elderly and aging as a “problem” for society. Focuses on the diversity of the aged and the experience of aging in the United States.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every other year
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SOC 200 - Class, Status and Power
Analyzes the nature, dynamics and historical development of social inequality. The economic and political power of the upper class, social mobility, the process of deindustrialization, feminization of poverty and the intersection of race and class are studied. Required for the major.
Prerequisites: SOC 107 is a prerequisite.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every semester
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SOC 202 - Social Research Process
General introduction to logic, techniques, and ethics of social science inquiry. Reviews qualitative and quantitative methods, as well as sampling. Fulfills the method requirement for majors. Not open to seniors.
Program of Liberal Studies (PLS) Designation: FA
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
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SOC 203 - American Jewish Life
Provides an introduction to the sociological study of American Jewry by surveying a broad range of topics such as immigration, economic mobility, religious and secular bases of Jewish identity, gender, and intermarriage. In order to identify what is Jewish and what is American about Americans Jews, we will systematically compare Jews with other ethnic groups.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every other year
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SOC 204 - Doing Qualitative Research
Provides background and experience in the systematic collection and analysis of qualitative data. Covering multiple sources of data – observations, interviews, and documents – this course provides an analytic vocabulary for critiquing qualitative inquiry and practice toward developing research skills. Fulfills one of the methods requirements for majors. (Fomerly SOC 138)
Prerequisites: At least one Sociology course
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered Every Year
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SOC 205 - Sociology of the Environment
Introduction to environmental sociology, a newly emerging area of interest. Focuses on the reciprocal relationships between society and the environment. The theoretical perspectives of human ecology and political economy are used to illuminate topics such as population, technology and environmental degradation, the environmental movement, north-south environmental conflicts, and food and hunger.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
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SOC 206 - Doing Quantitative Research
Much of the research done by sociologists involves quantitative analysis. This course focuses on the design and execution of quantitative studies. While we do learn to use/interpret some complex statistics (e.g., correlation and regression analysis), this is not a statistics course. PRIOR KNOWLEDGE OF STATISTICS IS NOT REQUIRED. Our primary focus will be on research design, that is, how to properly construct a study. In the process, we will develop an intuitive understanding of the sorts of data analyses conducted by sociologists. This will enable us to read, interpret, and understand the tables and graphs produced by sociologists. These skills will enable us to engage the core of the course: the use of two data sets, each of which has yielded multiple publications. Initially, we review a number of published studies with an eye to learning how to best design a quantitative study. Subsequently, we will design original research projects using each data set. Finally, we will conduct the research and analyze our findings.
Program of Liberal Studies (PLS) Designation: FA
Anticipated Terms Offered: Periodically
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SOC 210 - Social Problems: Claims and Media
Why do certain problems become matters of public concern while others do not? How do advocates and activists frame issues to capture public attention and promote change? How do institutional actors, with different resources, establish claims that move their interests forward? This course addresses these questions by analyzing the process of constructing social problems in both historical and contemporary contexts. Rather than a “laundry list” of specific problems, the course provides an introduction to social problems theory. Its emphasis is the process through which problems are defined and mediated and on the cultural dynamics and media practices that contribute to the credibility of claims.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Periodically
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SOC 225 - Religion and Society
This course introduces students to key theoretical and empirical works in the sociology of religion. We apply major theoretical perspectives to contemporary religious life. We ask how individuals find meaning in and are shaped by their experience of religion. Special consideration is given to how gender, sexuality, race, and ethnicity influence religious life. We explore the rise of new religious movements (historical and contemporary), the relationship between religion and modernity, and between religious fundamentalism and conservatism.
Anticipated Terms Offered: occasionally
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SOC 226 - Sport and Society
Sport and Society will look at the world of sport as an institutional structure that operates autonomously with its own rules, regulation, and authority, yet is inextricably linked to other structures. We will study the significance of sport as a cultural product; the dynamic ways in which it challenges and reenforces our understanding of race, gender, social class, and sexuality, and the ways in which globalization has [re]shaped sport in local and global contexts.
Anticipated Terms Offered: bi-annually
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