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SOCI   321 CRIMINOLOGY                              Credits 3.00  Spring 97
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Types of criminal behavior, theories of crime and juvenile delinquency,
with attention to the role of police, courts, correction agencies, and
other social structures.  Field work.
001 MWF     01:00PM-01:50PM SH*301   Brown, Lee
001                                  Martin, William

SOCI   336 MASS COMMUNICATIONS                      Credits 3.00  Spring 97
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Structure, social context, and efforts of large-scale impersonal
communication to dispersed and heterogeneous audiences, through such
media as televison, radio, print, motion pictures, and recordings.
001 TTH     09:25AM-10:40AM ML*254   Jowett, Garth

SOCI   360 TELEVISION IN AMERICAN CULTURE           Credits 3.00  Spring 97
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Analysis of television as popular discourse in the context of politics,
economics, class, gender, age and other cultural forms.
001 MWF     11:00AM-11:50AM SH*301   Gordon, Chad

SOCI   386 SEXUALITY AND THE SOCIAL ORDER           Credits 3.00  Spring 97
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Ways societies conceive of and regulate sexuality in members' lives;
sexual value systems; forms of sexual conduct (especially number,
identities, and objectives of participants and intimacy and power
relations among them); the changing role of sexuality over typical life
span; forms and effects of sexual communication; issues in the
future of sexuality; and AIDS.
001 MWF     03:00PM-03:50PM SH*301   Gordon, Chad

SOCI   395 FEMINIST SOCIAL THOUGHT                  Credits 3.00  Spring 97
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Feminist theory as critique and reconstruction--from Wollstonecraft,
and Simone de Beauvoir to contemporary debates about equity,
difference, knowledge, sexuality, and power.
Enrollment limited to 15.
Also offered as Huma 420.
001 MWF     03:00PM-03:50PM RH*107   Long, Elizabeth

SOCI   404 INDEPENDENT STUDY                        Credits 1.00  Spring 97
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

SOCI   421 THE CRAFT OF SOCIOLOGY                   Credits 3.00  Spring 97
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
What has been, and is today, the "work" of sociology?  This question
will be addressed by a self-reflective exploration of the
discipline--its historical and social origins and development, its
shifting philosophical foundations, its methodological refinements, its
ethical and political implications--and discussion of sociological
studies, both classic and controversial.  Preference given to third and
fourth-year students.  Required for Sociology majors.
Enrollment limited to 40.
001 MWF     01:00PM-01:50PM GRB*212W Long, Elizabeth

SOCI   425 POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY                      Credits 3.00  Spring 97
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Ethnic, economic, gender, and religious conflict.  The tension between
individualism and the quest for community.  The influence of money on
policy.  The "culture wars." Are political parties obsolete?  American
democracy and the crisis of delegitimation.
001 TTH     10:50AM-12:05PM SH*207B  Davidson, Chandler

SOCI   492 DIRECTED HONORS RESEARCH                 Credits 3.00  Spring 97
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

SOCI   496 ADV RES SEM:HOU AREA SURV 1997           Credits 4.00  Spring 97
The "research team" will continue the series of annual surveys exploring
the way Houston residents are reacting to changes in American society.
By participating fully in sampling procedures, questionnaire
construction, interviewing, and data analysis, students will gain direct
experience with the logic and skills of survey research, in a project of
professional quality.  The course concludes with a final research report
that develops empirical hypotheses and tests their validity with the
survey findings.
Permission of instructor required.
001 TTH     01:00PM-02:20PM HB*453   Klineberg, Stephen

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