Non-Degree Students: Non-Degree Students: In order to register for the courses listed below, non-degree graduate students must receive permission from the Sociology Department. A signed course permission slip must be submitted with registration materials. Course permission slips may be downloaded.

Registration for all 500- and 600-level courses requires permission of the Graduate Program Director

SOC 505 Urban Sociology (4-0-4). The study of metropolitan development and social life. Examines the role of economic, political, and cultural factors at the global, national, and regional levels. Explores the history of urban sociology and contemporary perspectives. Analyzes the process of social change at the metropolitan level.

SOC 510 Marriage and the Family (4-0-4). Focuses on contemporary issues in American family life, including mate selection, marital communication, transition to parenthood, parenting, sexuality, extended kin, family disruptions, relationship between work and family, and the effects of changing gender roles.

SOC 511 Individual and Society (4-0-4). Interaction between the individual and society. Examination of the ways in which society impinges on the individual’s behavior with special emphasis on the perspectives of symbolic interactionism, ethnomethodology, and conversation analysis.

SOC 512 Sociology of Mental Illness (4-0-4). Examines three central issues: 1) the changing understanding of mental illness, 2) the variety of approaches for the treatment of mental illness, and 3) the impact of social policy on the lives of the mentally ill. By combining historical, medical, and sociological perspectives, this course provides a broad introduction to the study of mental illness. The material is drawn primarily from the United States.

SOC 513 Sociology of Education (4-0-4). Education as socialization; the dual role of the school as change and conservation agent; characteristics of school populations; changing roles of private and parochial education; organization and structure of authority and decision-making processes in public and private schools.

SOC 515 Population Problems (4-0-4). Sociological significance of population size, distribution, composition, and density; population and economic development; United States population data in relation to other major countries; programs of family planning; population policies.

SOC 516 Sociology of Aging (4-0-4). Critical analysis of the social status and participation of older individuals in modern societies. Includes topics such as theories of aging, demography, family ties, economic status, health care delivery systems and long-term care, dying and death, and the United States as an aging society.

SOC 517 Sociology of Gender (4-0-4). Examination of the significance of gender differences in the experiences of women and men in social institutions (e.g., family, education, economic, legal, political); the theoretical perspectives utilized to analyze these differences; and the effects of changing expectations on gender roles and identities.

SOC 518 Childhood and Adolescence (4-0-4). Explores the place of children and youth in societies by examining conceptions of children that guide adults’ expectations of children and social policies, and how age, gender, ethnicity/race, and social class affect the way children are treated by one another and by adults in families, schools, and neighborhoods in Western societies.

SOC 519 Sociology of Religion (4-0-4). The course will present and compare/contrast major sociological theories of religion, examine historical and contemporary patterns of religious belief and participation, and the relationships between religion and other institutions including politics. The empirical focus will include both the contemporary United States and a comparative look at other societies. (Effective Spring Term - 2010).

SOC 540 Criminology (4-0-4). Examination of crime as a form of social deviance, crime and law, forms and patterns of criminal behavior, theoretical perspectives on crime and criminality, the criminal justice system, law enforcement, corrections, and effectiveness of societal responses to crime.

SOC 541 Juvenile Delinquency (4-0-4). Examination of criminal and other forms of youthful misconduct in the context of the place of children and adolescents in American society. Particular emphasis on the causes of various forms of delinquency and community-based prevention and corrective programs.

SOC 542 Sociology of Law (4-0-4). Society and law, foundations of law, legislation and judicial interpretation for regulating behavior, law and social change, and the legal profession.

SOC 543 Medical Sociology (4-0-4). The role of social and cultural factors in health, research on the use of health services, the health professions, health care organizations, and major issues in public policy and health care.

SOC 545 Social Control (4-0-4). The course begins with an examination of the meaning of social control, both as a formal and an informal system of constraint. The second part of the course offers a historical account of the emergence and development of the prison in both Europe and the United States. This involves a detailed consideration of the competing historical accounts of the birth of the prison offered by Robin Evans and Michel Foucault. Finally, the course explores contemporary issues concerning surveillance and the use of technology to exercise control over a modern, predominantly urban population.

SOC 546 Corporate and Governmental Deviance (4-0-4). Reviews the extent, types, causes, and consequences of crime and deviant behavior both within and by organizations. The focus of the course is on sociological analysis of organizations and crime. Consideration is also given to various policy options designed to deter and/or to punish organizational crime.

SOC 555 Ethnographic Research Methods (4-0-4). Collecting, analyzing, and writing research reports based on qualitative data (field notes, transcripts of intensive interviews, and archives) about an organization or setting. Ethical obligations to host organizations and to the research community.

SOC 556 Database Management for Social Research (4-0-4). Develop skills to access and manipulate machine-readable data files for social science research, such as data from the U.S. Census Bureau and the General Social Survey. A combination of lecture and lab with students learning-by-doing.

SOC 580 Racial and Ethnic Inequality (4-0-4). Historical antecedents and cross-societal comparisons of patterns of dominant and subordinate groupings based on ethnic, cultural, and racial differentiations; patterns of interaction within and among these groups with special attention to prejudice and discrimination.

SOC 583 Political Sociology (4-0-4). Analysis of the nature, distribution, and effects of power in contemporary society. Study of the relationship between political, economic, and cultural institutions and power. Exploration of topics including the state, political parties, voting, and collective behavior and social movements.

SOC 588 Sociology of Work and Organization (4-0-4). Introduction to the sociology of work in contemporary society. Analysis of the meaning of work for men and women and of the different experiences of work in specific occupations. Topics include the organization of the workplace, the relationship between work and family, work and gender, and the effects of social policy on workers and employers.

SOC 589 Sociology of Non-Western Societies: Region (4-0-4). An analysis of social behavior and organization in the emergent instructions of new nations outside the western hemisphere, as rooted in indigenous, colonial, and religion, utilizing modernization and social conflict perspectives on societal change. Region to be studied is listed in the online course schedule.

SOC 640 Sociological Theory (4-0-4). A review of the major perspectives and key theories in macro sociology (the analysis of large-scale social systems and long-term processes of change) and micro sociology (social interaction). Classical thinkers such as Marx, Weber, Durkheim, Simmel, and Mead, as well as a variety of contemporary theorists, are discussed. Emphasis on exploring the ways in which theoretical perspectives have influenced the history of sociology and are used in the conduct of empirical research.

SOC 650 Sociological Research Methods (4-0-4). Quantitative and qualitative techniques and strategies for designing, conducting, and analyzing applied and basic social research questions. Includes self-report data from structured interviews, sample surveys, and field-note data from participant and non- participant observation.

SOC 651 Sociological Statistics (4-0-4). Decisions and procedures for quantitative social data analysis. Review of statistical techniques for frequency distributions, measures of central tendency and dispersion, cross-tabulation, and measures of association. Statistical inference and hypothesis testing. Analysis of variance, correlation, and linear/multiple regression, including an introduction to structural equation models. Computer applications.

SOC 661 Aging and the Life Course (4-0-4). The social theories of aging, including disengagement, activity, continuity, age stratification, modernization, symbolic interaction, and conflict perspectives. Current research, including work and retirement, health and care-giving, discrimination, political action, and social policy.

SOC 662 Deviance and Social Control (4-0-4). Sociocultural, labeling, and institutional theories are applied to the analysis of the origins, treatment, and prevention of selected forms of deviance.

SOC 663 Criminological Theory (4-0-4). Students read and discuss classical theoretical works that provide the foundation for explaining criminal behavior, contemporary revisions and extensions of these theories; and empirical research based on both classical and contemporary works. Subject areas include the humanist movement and the emergence of rational theories of crime; the emergence of positivism and ideas of cause and effect; structural theories of crime based on poverty and social inequality; theories of family and peer relationships; and social reaction, critical, and feminist views.

SOC 670 Gender and Society (4-0-4). Reviews theoretical and research literature on women and men in contemporary society, including the social construction of gender, socialization into gendered behavior, gender differences in the workforce, and changing family relationships. Emphasis is on how to move from conceptual frameworks to empirical research on gender issues.

SOC 671 Social Demography (4-0-4). Integrates sociological, demographic, and empirical evidence through the review and application of demographic theory and methods.

SOC 672 Advanced Qualitative Methods (4-0- 4). Prerequisites: SOC 650 and permission of instructor. Advanced study and applications with one or more topics from SOC 650.

SOC 673 Advanced Quantitative Methods (4-0-4). Prerequisites: SOC 650 and permission of instructor. Advanced study and applications with one or more topics from SOC 650.

SOC 674 Advanced Social Statistics (4-0-4). Prerequisites: SOC 651 and permission of instructor. Special and advanced techniques for multivariate statistical data analysis. Focuses on techniques derived from the general linear model, including multiple regression, factor analysis, and discriminant function analysis. Introduction to network analysis.

SOC 680 Race and Ethnicity in American Society (4-0-4). Graduate seminar that critically analyzes competing perspectives on the causes, maintenance, extent, and consequences of racial and ethnic differences in a variety of contemporary social institutions in the United States (e.g., labor and housing markets, education, and the family).

SOC 681 Advanced Seminar in Aging and the Life Course (4-0-4). Prerequisites: SOC 661 and permission of instructor. Advanced study and research with one or more topics from SOC 661.

SOC 682 Advanced Seminar in Deviance and Social Control (4-0-4). Prerequisites: SOC 662 and permission of instructor. Advanced study and research with one or more topics from SOC 662.

SOC 683 Sociological Analysis of Work and Economic Change (4-0-4). Graduate reading- and-research seminar on changes in the contemporary workplace that brings together issues from the sociology of work, the sociology of the economy, and organizational sociology through a focused consideration of the evolution of contemporary economic organizations and jobs.

SOC 684 Urban Social Change (4-0-4). Integrates material from urban sociology, political sociology, deviance, social control, collective behavior, and social movements to provide a critical analysis of institutional and non-institutional sources of social change.

SOC 696 Individualized Study (1-4 credits). Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Reading, research, and other activities planned jointly by the student and the faculty member and carried out under faculty guidance.

SOC 698 Master’s Research Paper (4-0-4). Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Guidance for individual students who are drafting the master’s research paper.

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