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SOCI   203 INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY                Credits 3.00  Fall 99
           * RESTRICTED DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Introduction to the principal concepts, theories, and methods of
sociology.
Required (normally) for sociology majors.
NOTE: This course will be repeated Spring 2000.
001 MWF     01:00PM-01:50PM SH*301   Martin, William                *CURRENT ENR: 73

SOCI   301 SOCIAL INEQUALITY                        Credits 3.00  Fall 99
           * RESTRICTED DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
A study of the extent of social inequality in the U.S., its causes,
costs, and benefits.  Can some (or all) forms be abolished?  Is
inequality compatible with democracy?
Enrollment limited to 30.
A FOUNDATION COURSE.
001 MWF     10:00AM-10:50AM GRB*211W Davidson, Chandler             *CURRENT ENR: 30

SOCI   306 SOCIOLOGY OF GENDER                      Credits 3.00  Fall 99
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Relationship between gender and social role.  Development of the
contemporary sexual division of labor and process of socialization with
reference to family, education, media, and occupations.
Also offered as WGST 324.
Enrollment limited to 55.
001 TTH     02:30PM-03:50PM SH*309   Long, Elizabeth                *CURRENT ENR: 32

SOCI   309 RACE & ETHNIC RELATIONS                  Credits 3.00  Fall 99
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Historical and contemporary issues and theories of race and ethnic
relations in the United States.  The key groups covered will be
European Americans, African Americans, Native Americans, Asian
Americans, and Mexican Americans.  Group patterns of assimilation and
conflict inform a basic tenet that race and ethnicity are organizing
features of society.
Enrollment limited to 50.
001 MWF     09:00AM-09:50AM SH*305   Emerson, Michael               *CURRENT ENR: 38

SOCI   317 CONTEMPORARY SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY         Credits 3.00  Fall 99
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Discussion course on major recent trends in sociological theory,
especially in the writings of Goffman, Habermas, Bourdieu, Foucault,
Smith, Calhoun, and Denzin.  Includes symbolic interactionism, critical
theory, cultural studies, text/discourse/semiotic analyses, feminist
theory, and postmodern sociology.  This course emphasizes the
relationship between theory, lived experiences, and social analysis.
001 TTH     10:50AM-12:05PM SH*305   Long, Elizabeth                *CURRENT ENR: 22

SOCI   390 RESEARCH METHODS                         Credits 3.00  Fall 99
An introduction to the methods sociologists use to study human societies
and their members, taught collectively by the Sociology faculty.
Hypothesis formulation and research design; qualitative studies through
observation and interviews; historical and comparative approaches;
sample surveys and the statistical analysis of quantitative data;
political and ethical issues in social research.
001 TTH     01:00PM-02:20PM SH*307   Klineberg, Stephen             *CURRENT ENR: 23

SOCI   403 INDEPENDENT STUDY                        Credits 1.00  Fall 99
Directed reading and written papers on subjects not regularly offered;
advanced study of subjects on which courses are offered.
Prereq- permission of the department.  One to three credit hours.
Repeatable.
001 TBA     TBA                      TBA                            *CURRENT ENR: 2

SOCI   411 SOCIAL CHANGE                            Credits 3.00  Fall 99
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
An analysis of the accelerating trends that have transformed human
societies during the past thirty years, with particular reference to
ongoing transformations in the economic foundations and ethnic
composition of the United States, and in threats to the global
environment and the capitalist world system; individual and collective
responses to the challenges of our time.
001 TTH     09:25AM-10:40AM SH*462   Klineberg, Stephen             *CURRENT ENR: 8

SOCI   430 SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION                    Credits 3.00  Fall 99
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Religious beliefs, symbols, actions, organizations, roles, and various
interrelationships between religion and society, including new religious
movements, secularization, and fundmentalism.  Field work.
Enrollment limited to 40.
001 MWF     10:00AM-10:50AM SH*305   Martin, William                *CURRENT ENR: 36

SOCI   493 DIRECTED HONORS RESEARCH                 Credits 3.00  Fall 99
Sociological research under faculty supervision.  First semester: review
of relevant literature and preparation of outline for planned research.
Second semester: research carried out and honors thesis completed. Open
only to students in sociology honors program.
001 TBA     TBA                      TBA                            *CURRENT ENR: 1

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