American Studies

Minor

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Requirements for the Minor (20 Credits)

At least 16 credits must be at the intermediate or upper level, arranged as follows:

I. Four (4) credits in English, chosen from the following:

• ENGL 20A/20th Century British and American Literatures (2)
• ENGL 20B/19th Century British and American Literatures (2)
• ENGL 34/Topics in American Ethnic, Immigrant, or Regional Literature (4)
• ENGL 35/African-American Literature (4)
• ENGL 36/Asian American Literature (2-4)
• ENGL 37/Latino/a Literature (2-4)
• ENGL 116/Advanced Studies in American Literature to the Civil War (2-4)
• ENGL 117/Advanced Studies in American Literature from the Civil War to World War I (2-4)
• ENGL 118/Advanced Studies in American Literature of the 20th Century (2-4)
• ENGL 123/Intensive reading of a single text (when topic appropriate) (2-4)
• ENGL 124/Approaches to Literature: Genre (when topic appropriate) (2-4)
• ENGL 125/Approaches to Literature: Biographical (when topic appropriate) (2-4)
• ENGL 126/Approaches to Literature: Intertextual (when topic appropriate) (2-4)
• ENGL 127/Approaches to Literature: Cultural (when topic appropriate) (2-4)
• ENGL 128/Approaches to Literature: Interart Relations (when topic appropriate) (2-4)
• ENGL 132/Women’s Literary Traditions (when topic appropriate) (2-4)
• ENGL 134/Advanced Studies in American Ethnic Literatures (when topic appropriate) (2-4)
• ENGL 140/Topics in Literature (when topic appropriate) (4)
• ENGL 165/Topics in Literature (when topic appropriate) (4)
• ENGL 172/Studies in Fiction: Seminar (when topic appropriate) (4)
• ENGL 173/Studies in Fiction: Seminar (when topic appropriate) (4)
• ENGL 174/Advanced Literary Studies: Seminar (when topic appropriate) (4)
• ENGL 175/ Major Author: Seminar (when topic appropriate) (4)
• ENGL 180/Independent Study in Literature (when topic appropriate) (4)

II. Four (4) credits in history, chosen from the following:

• HIST 1/History of the United States, From Contact to 1877 (4)
• HIST 2/History of the United States, 1876-Present (4)
• HIST 15/African-American History: African Origins to 1877 (4)
• HIST 16/The Struggle for Equality: African-American History from 1860 to the Present (4)
• HIST 22/American Environment History (4)
• HIST 23/Defining American Identity (2)
• HIST 102/Colonial America (4)
• HIST 104/The American Revolution (4)
• HIST 105/The American Civil War (4)
• HIST 107/Popular Culture and Its Critics (4)
• HIST 108/The History of Work in America (4)
• HIST 109/The United States Since World War II (4)
• HIST 112/American Intellectual and Social History Since the Civil War (4)
• HIST 115/American Intellectual and Social History (4)
• HIST 122/Presidents and the Presidency in the United States, 1787-Present (4)
• HIST 124/History of Business in America (4)
• HIST 126/American Women’s History (4)
• HIST 190/Selected Topics in History (1-4)
• HIST 196/Independent Study (4)

III. Twelve (12) credits from those listed above in English and history as well as related fields, at least one of which must be in neither English nor history.

• ANTH 16/Folklore (4)
• ANTH 52/Native North American Culture (4)
• ANTH 58/Museums and Society (4)
• ARTHST 107/American Art (4)
• ARTHST 55/Museums and Society (4)
• ARTHST 119/Special Topics in Art History (when topic appropriate) (4)
• ECON 29/Selected Topics in Economics (when topic appropriate) (4)
• ECON 49/Wall Street and the Economy (4)
• ECON 50/Colloquium on Wall Street: Practical Realities and Recent Issues (4)
• ECON 129/Selected Topics (when topic appropriate) (4)
• ECON 134/American Economic Development (4)
• ECON 136/Political Economy of Race, Class and Gender (4)
• MUS 34/American Popular Music and All That Jazz (4)
• MUS 40/Music in the American Century (4)
• PHIL 104/Problems of Ethics and Meta-Ethics (4)
• PSCI 6/American Government and Politics (4
• PSCI 100/Introduction to the American Legal System (4)
• PSCI 101/Civil Liberties (4)
• PSCI 102/Public Policy and Administration (4)
• PSCI 103/Criminal Justice (4)
• PSCI 114/United States Foreign Policy (4)
• PSCI 115/Political Sociology (4)
• PSCI 120/Interest Groups (4)
• PSCI 121/Selected Studies in American Politics and Administration (when topic appropriate) (4)
• PSCI 122/Political Parties and Interest Groups in the United States (4)
• PSCI 123/Congress (4)
• PSCI 124/American Political Campaigns (4)
• PSCI 125/The American Presidency (4)
• PSCI 126/Constitutional Law and Civil Rights (4)
• PSCI 128/Introduction to Urban Politics (4)
• PSCI 129/Urban Policy Research (4)
• PSCI 132/Polling and Public Opinion (4)
• PSCI 134/Latin America and U.S. Foreign Policy (4)
• PSCI 142/Seminar on American Political Participation (4)
• PSCI 152/Independent Study in Political Science (when topic appropriate) (4)
• PSCI 155/Gender and U.S. Politics (4)
• PSCI 159/American Political Economy (4)
• PSCI 166/Practicum in Political Science (when topic appropriate)
• PSCI 173/Internship Project in Washington (8)
• PSCI 174/Policy Making in Washington (4)
• PSCI 175/Research Projects: Washington (4)
• PSCI 196/Constitutional Law and Civil Rights (4)
• PSCI 197/Educational Policy and Politics (4)
• PSCI 198/Race and Politics (4)
• REL 24/Religion in America (4)
• REL 38/Contemporary American Catholicism (4)
• REL 49/Introduction to American Judaism (4)
• REL 122/New Religious Movements in America (4)
• REL 127/Business Ethics (4)
• REL 133/Selected Topics in Religious Studies (when topic appropriate) (2-4)
• REL 142/The Black Church in America (4)
• REL 144/Native American Religions (4)
• SOC 15/Contemporary Social Problems (4)
• SOC 19/Sociology of Inequality (4)
• SOC 25/Sociology of Gender (4)
• SOC 26/Sociology of Race and Ethnicity (4)
• SOC 27/Sociology of Families (4)
• SOC 29/Sociology of Aging (4)
• SOC 34/Introduction to Social Welfare (4)
• SOC 49/Sociology of Work (4)
• SOC 50/Sociology of Childhood and Youth (4)
• SOC 104/Sociology of Immigration (4)
• SOC 105/Social Change (4)
• SOC 106/Urban Sociology (4)
• SOC 107/Criminology (4)
• SOC 108/Sociology of Population (4)
• SOC 110/Sociology of Mass Communications (4)
• SOC 111/Sociology of Health and Illness (4)
• SOC 115/Political Sociology (4)
• SOC 117/Sociology of Management (4)
• SOC 118/Sociology of Education (4)
• SOC 127/Crime and the Urban World (4)
• SOC 131/Contemporary Issues in Sociology (when topic appropriate) (4)
• SPAN 136/Literature of the Conquest of America (4)
• SPAN 149/Hispanic Cultures in the U.S. (4)

Faculty

Faculty

Director: Lillie Johnson Edwards, Professor of History

Courses

Courses Offered

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ANTH 205 - Formerly 52 - Native North American Cultures (4)

The study of cultures of native North America immediately prior to the Columbian expansion of Europe and directions and dynamics of culture change to the present. Examines current issues, specifically points of contention with the U.S. and Canadian governments and other peoples now inhabiting Native American space.
Prerequisite: ANTH 104 - Formerly 4 - or permission of instructor Offering to be determined.

ANTH 58 - Museums and Society (4)

Using case studies from museum literature and situations, this course explores the intersection of museums with their public. It will probe the social location of museums, their function, exhibitions, educational role, and ideologies. Controversial matters such as governance, multiculturalism, globalization, the role of government, and artifact theft will be engaged in terms of changing cultural values.
Offered spring semester in even years. Same as:

ARTH 307 - Formerly ARTHST 107 - American Art (4)

This course provides a chronological survey of American painting and sculpture produced between the colonial period and World War I and the diverse art historical methodologies (feminism, social history and psychoanalysis, for example) that have been employed to interpret it and write its histories. Some Native American material is also included. Works of art will be situated within their broad social historical contexts and considered in light of such topics as the "Americanness" of American art and the usefulness of studying art within individual national "schools"; the place of African-American and women artists in US art history; transnational exchange with Europe; the development and role of art institutions; the connections between American art and literature; and the relationship between art and national identity.
Offered every third year in spring semester.
Fulfills: BH, DUS

ARTH 319 - Formerly ARTHST 119 - Special Topics in Art History (4)

A topic or period of art history not covered by regular offerings. May be repeated for credit as topic changes.
Course may be repeated. Offering to be determined.
Fulfills: BH, BA

ARTH 219 - Formerly ARTHST AA1 - Special Topics in Art History (4)

A topic or period of art history not covered by regular offerings. May be repeated for credit as topic changes. Course may be repeated. Offering to be determined.
Course may be repeated. Offering to be determined.
Fulfills: BH, BA

ECON 250 - Formerly 29 - Selected Topics in Economics (2-4)

Recent topics have included the economics of food and nutrition, the economics of corporate downsizing, and the economics of financial market integration and comparative central banking.
May be repeated for credit as topic changes. Prerequisite: ECON 101 - Formerly 5 - (and ECON 102 - Formerly 6 - when topic merits it; see course listings each semester) Offering to be determined.

ECON 281 - Formerly 49 - Wall Street and the Economy (4)

The operations and institutions of financial markets; their role in financing new investments, pensions, etc. ; their impact on local, national, and global economies. The economic history and ethical dimensions of Wall Street and its relation to macroeconomic policy.
Signature of instructor required for registration. Prerequisite: ECON 101 - Formerly 5 - and 6 and acceptance into the Wall Street Semester Offered spring semester.

ECON 282 - Formerly 50 - Colloquium on Wall Street: Practical Realities and Recent Issues (4)

The practical day-to-day operations of the financial markets and institutions located in New York City. Talks by guest speakers drawn from the finance industry itself, as well as from corporations, government regulatory agencies, and institutional investors, shareholder activists, academics and others. Field trips to New York City to stock brokerages, the New York Stock Exchange, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and various commodity exchanges. Speakers, field trips, and student projects explore recent issues, such as the impact of derivatives and other financial innovations. Students are required to keep a journal and make oral presentations about their experiences on Wall Street, including their meetings with prominent speakers from a wide variety of private and nonprofit institutions.
Signature of instructor required for registration. Prerequisite: ECON 101 - Formerly 5 - and 6 and acceptance into the Wall Street Semester

ECON 350 - Formerly 129 - Selected Topics in Economics (4)

Topics determined by department. Recent topics have included economics of racism, government regulation of industry, the microeconomics of macroeconomics, and workplace democracy.
May be repeated for credit as topic changes. Prerequisite: Offering to be determined.

ECON 314 - Formerly 134 - American Economic Development (4)

A topical survey of the economic history of the United States from its establishment as a collection of British Colonies to its emergence as the world's leading industrial nation. The course explores the nature, causes, and consequences of America's economic growth and development and the institutional transformations that accompanied its rise to world industrial supremacy in the middle of the 20th century. Through the study of American economic development from a variety of theoretical and multidisciplinary paradigms, students will acquire critical, comparative and historical perspectives on contemporary economic theory, issues, policies, and debates. Through exposure to, engagement with, and oral and written critical reflections on the scholarly literature in economic, business, and labor history and in historical political economy, students will develop the analytical and writing skills that will enable them to understand, produce, and present work in the field of American econom
Prerequisite: ECON 301 - Formerly 102 - or 103. Offered annually.
Fulfills: WM

ECON 315 - Formerly 136 - Political Economy of Race, Class, and Gender (4)

A study of race, class, and gender using the political economic approach to the study of economics. The course will investigate the impact of introducing the categories of race, class, and gender into political economic theory and will also undertake some empirical analyses of the roles of race, class, and gender in producing economic outcomes for minorities and majorities in the U.S.
Signature of instructor required for registration. Prerequisite: Sophomore or higher standing and one course in Economics. Offered alternate years.
Fulfills: WI, DUS

ENGL 253 - Formerly 20A - Mapping the Anglo-American Literary Tradition 1900-Presen (2)

Taught in four two-credit modules, this course maps Anglo-American literary history from the medieval period to the twentieth century. This essential experience grounds English majors and minors in key texts as well as in major periods, transitions, shifts, and trends along with influences between and among them. Conducted primarily in lecture and discussion form to facilitate students' reading of difficult texts, the course involves extensive reading of primary works from each period and select twentieth-century texts set in dialogue with them. Assessment is primarily through written exams.
Prerequisite: ENGL 150 - Formerly 9 - Corequisite: ENGL 210 - Formerly 4 - (Simultaneous enrollment with one of the four modules). Offered annually, 20 A/B in the spring, 21 A/B in the fall).

ENGL 252 - Formerly 20B - Mapping the Anglo-American Literary Tradition: 1800-1900 (2)

Taught in four two-credit modules, this course maps Anglo-American literary history from the medieval period to the twentieth century. This essential experience grounds English majors and minors in key texts as well as in major periods, transitions, shifts, and trends along with influences between and among them. Conducted primarily in lecture and discussion form to facilitate students' reading of difficult texts, the course involves extensive reading of primary works from each period and select twentieth-century texts set in dialogue with them. Assessment is primarily through written exams.
Prerequisite: ENGL 150 - Formerly 9 - Corequisite: ENGL 210 - Formerly 4 - (Simultaneous enrollment with one of the four modules). Offered annually, 20 A/B in the spring, 21 A/B in the fall).

ENGL 105 - Formerly 34 - Topics in American Ethnic, Immigrant, or Regional Lit. (4)

An exploration of literature of the American ethnic, immigrant, or regional experience. The course may focus on one ethnicity, such as Jewish American or Arab American; explore the immigrant experience as it is articulated in works from several ethnicities including Italian American, Irish American, Eastern European, Asian American, South Asian American, or Latino/a; or it may focus on literature produced within specific geographical regions, regional schools, or regional traditions of the United States, including Southern literature, literature of the Great Plains, the Northwest, the Southwest, California, New York City, or New Jersey.
Course may be repeated. Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. Offered in alternate fall semesters..
Fulfills: BH, DUS

ENGL 106 - Formerly 35 - African American Literature (4)

A study of the writers in the African American literary tradition from the beginning of the 20th century to the present. Through a variety of genres, we will examine the work of selected writers in light of their historical time and place, major themes, conclusions about the nature of black experience in the United States and their contributions to this literary tradition and to the American literary canon. We will pay close attention to particular movements in this tradition, such as the Harlem Renaissance, protest literature, the Black Arts movement, and contemporary directions in the literature since 1970. Writers may include: Alain Locke, Claude McKay, Nella Larsen, Jean Toomer, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, Lorraine Hansberry, James Baldwin, Amiri Baraka, Ntozake Shange, Paule Marshall, Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, Sonia Sanchez, and Alice Walker.
May be repeated for credit as topic changes. Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. Offered in alternate spring semesters..
Fulfills: DUS, BH

ENGL 107 - Formerly 36 - Asian American Literature (2-4)

Examines works by women writers in the Anglo-American and Anglophone tradition through the historical and theoretical approaches that have emerged from recent feminist criticism and theory. May focus on a particular genre, period, author or authors, the literature of a particular region, or on literature in particular social or cultural contexts. Such topics as: Women Writers and World War I; Female Bildungsroman; African American Women Writers; Victorian Women Poets.
Course may be repeated. Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. Offered in alternate spring semesters.
Fulfills: BH, DUS

ENGL 108 - Formerly 37 - Latino/a Literature (2-4)

This course will reconsider such issues as critical race theory and identity construction, gender and sexuality, hybridity, American canon formation, and nation-building in light of the contemporary Latino Boom (in music, film, art, television, and literature). The course considers thematic and figurative background to the literature such as la Malinche, Aztlan, Quetzalcoatl, Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta, la Llorona, la Virgen de Guadalupe, Nepantla, and Braceros. Authors studied may include Ana Castillo, Sandra Cisneros, Cherrie Moraga, Gloria Anzaldua, Rudolfo Anaya, Rolando Hinojosa, Luis Valdez, Cristina Garcia, Junot Diaz, and Julia Alvarez.
Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. Offered in alternate fall semesters.
Fulfills: BH, DUS

ENGL 354 - Formerly 116 - Advanced Studies in American Literature to the Civil War (2-4)

An advanced examination of American literature before the Civil War. Topics include transcendentalism, visions and revisions, the American novel, literary responses to the Civil War and the aftermath of slavery. Writers may include Irving, Poe, Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman, Jacobs, Douglass, Stowe.
Course may be repeated. Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. Signature of instructor required for registration. Prerequisite: B Offered in alternate fall semesters.

ENGL 355 - Formerly 117 - Advanced Studies in American Literature from the Civil War to World War I (2-4)

Topics include women writers in post-Civil War America and regional and national voices from the Civil War to WWI. Perspectives on realism, naturalism, women's voices, regional and national voices in the fiction, nonfiction and poetry from the end of the Civil War to World War I. Writers may include Twain, James, Dickinson, Adams, Crane, Davis, Chopin, London, Gilman, Wharton, and Jewett.
Amount of credit established at registration. Course may be repeated for credit. Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. Prerequisite: A or 20B Offered in alternate spring semesters.

ENGL 356 - Formerly 118 - Advanced Studies in American Literature of the 20th Cent. (2-4)

Topics include artistic movements such as Naturalism, the Beats, New Journalism, Modernism, or Postmodernism; covering fields such as women's literature, ethnic literatures, or immigrant literature; intertextuality; literature in relation to social movements of the second half of the century, historical eras such as the Great Depression, Cold War, World Wars; or major authors.
Course may be repeated. Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. Prerequisite: A Offered in alternate fall semesters.

ENGL 322 - Formerly 123 - Intensive reading of a single text (2-4)

This course allows sustained concentration on a single text. In some semesters, the text itself will be a long and difficult one (e.g., Paradise Lost or Finnegan's Wake). In other semesters the course will cover a more accessible literary text but that text will be viewed through the lenses of various kinds of interpretation (e.g., cultural criticism, performance theory, formalism, gender studies, deconstruction, psychoanalytical theory).
Course may be repeated. Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. Prerequisite: One of the following as appropriate: A, B, ENGL21A, ENGL+ 21B. Offered alternate fall semesters.

ENGL 323 - Formerly 124 - Approaches to Literature: Genre (2-4)

All writers conceive of themselves as writing inside of a genre. If writing inside of a genre involved only the imposition of constraint, writers surely would not choose to do it. What is genre? How does it open possibilities for writing? How do genres change over time and across cultures? What is the relationship between literary genre and the way humans frame their emotional, intellectual, and social experience? The focus will be on a single genre (e.g., novel, lyric poem, tragedy, comedy, epic, ballad, gothic novel, graphic novel, etc.)
Course may be repeated. Enrollment priority: Priority given to English majors and minors. Prerequisite: One of the following as appropriate: A, B, ENGL21A, ENGL+ 21B. Offered in alternate spring semesters.

ENGL 324 - Formerly 125 - Approaches to Literature: Biographical (2-4)

How much can we read into a work based on our knowledge of a writer's life? In this course we will look at literary texts in relation to letters and diaries. We will then look at how biographers and literary critics used those same letters and diaries to say something about the author's life or writings. After reading some essays by biographers about the challenges that they have faced in their work, students will attempt to compose an argument of their own by drawing on letters, diaries, or other primary sources.
Course may be repeated. Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. Prerequisite: One of the following as appropriate: A, B, ENGL21A, ENGL+ 21B. Offered in alternate fall semesters.

ENGL 325 - Formerly 126 - Approaches to Literature: Intertextual (2-4)

This course explores the various ways that texts "answer" each other or imbricate each other. Writers often compose a text in response to another work (sometimes contemporaneous, sometimes distant). Writers also develop rivalries, write for each other as audience, feel especially influenced by or even possessed by another writer. In some eras, all literature is considered to be "part" of a larger project or in response to a "big" text (e.g., the Bible). Some literary works are written in the shadow of another language. Different theories of intertextuality will be covered.
Amount of credit established at the time of registration. Course may be repeated for credit. Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. Prerequisite: A, 20B, 21A, 21B. Offered in alternate spring semesters.

ENGL 326 - Formerly 127 - Approaches to Literature: Cultural (2-4)

How do critics work on the relationship between literary texts and other cultural materials (such as popular culture, legal and religious discourse, social history, political history)? This course will look at literary texts in the context of extra-literary materials.
Amount of credit established at the time of registration. Course may be repeated for credit. Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. Prerequisite: A, 20B, 21A, 21B. Offered in alternate fall semesters.

ENGL 327 - Formerly 128 - Approaches to Painterly Literature: (2-4)

The course covers interactions between literary artists and visual artists. We will look at individual writers' responses to particular works of art as well as broader relationships such as visual iconography in medieval works or breakthrough moments in modernism and postmodernism when writers' exposure to the visual arts led them to invent new modes of composition and of perception.
Course may be repeated. Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. Prerequisite: One of the following as appropriate: A, B, ENGL21A, ENGL+ 21B. Offered in alternate spring semesters.

ENGL 303 - Formerly 132 - Women's Literary Tradition (4)

Examines works by women writers in the Anglo-American and Anglophone tradition through the historical and theoretical approaches that have emerged from recent feminist criticism and theory. May focus on a particular genre, period, author or authors, the literature of a particular region, or on literature in particular social or cultural contexts. Such topics as: Women Writers and World War I; Female Bildungsroman; African American Women Writers; Victorian Women Poets.
Cross listed with Women's Studies. Course may be repeated. Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. Prerequisite: ENGL 150 - Formerly 9 - or permission of the instructor. Offered spring semester.
Fulfills: BH

ENGL 305 - Formerly 134 - Advanced Studies in Ethnic American Literature (4)

Intensive study in American ethnic literatures: African American, Asian American, Latino/a, American Indian, Jewish, and Caribbean literatures, among others. Instructors may select particular emphases for these areas of study, which can include a focus on chronological or thematic approaches or on the development of a particular genre, such as poetry, novel, short fiction, autobiography, or drama. Central to the study of these literatures is a consideration of the unique aspects of ethnic cultures in the United States that inform various American ethic literary traditions.
Course may be repeated for credit. Signature of instructor required for registration. Prerequisite: ENGL 150 - Formerly 9 - or permission of the instructor. Offered in alternate spring semester.
Fulfills: DUS

ENGL 301 - Formerly 140 - Topics in Literature (4)

An advanced study of particular literary subjects (e.g. the literature of the Holocaust, immigrant literature), topics (Old English language and literature, myth and literature), problems (e.g., literacy and orality, modern constructions of older/ancient texts), and methodologies (e.g., psychoanalytic approaches, comparative literature.
Course may be repeated. Enrollment priority: Priority is given to English majors and minors. Prerequisite: ENGL 150 - Formerly 9 - or permission of the instructor. Offered fall semester.

ENGL 372 - Formerly 172 - Studies in Fiction: Seminar (4)

A study of selected major works of fiction. Focus depends on instructor. Course may be repeated as topic varies.
Course may be repeated. Enrollment limit: 15. Open only to students with junior or senior standing Signature of instructor required for registration. Prerequisite: A, 20B, 21A, 21B and at least one Approaches course. Offered fall semester.

ENGL 373 - Formerly 173 - Studies in Poetry or Drama: Seminar (4)

A study of selected major works of poetry or drama or a school of poetry or drama. For example, Caribbean poetry, New York School poets, medieval drama, or modern American drama. Course may be repeated as topic varies.
Course may be repeated. Enrollment limit: 15 Open only to students with junior or senior standing Signature of instructor required for registration. Prerequisite: A, 20B, 21A, 21B and at least one Approaches course. Offered fall semester.

ENGL 374 - Formerly 174 - Advanced Literary Studies: Seminar (4)

An intensive study of a theme, problem, or literary genre. The topic varies from year to year, but the seminar is designed to offer students an extended analysis of that topic and the opportunity to explore it from a number of perspectives and critical positions.
Course may be repeated. Enrollment limit: 15 Open only to students with junior or senior standing Signature of instructor required for registration. Prerequisite: A, 20B, 21A, 21B and at least one Approaches course. Offered fall semester.

ENGL 375 - Formerly 175 - Major Author: Seminar (4)

A close reading and a critical examination of the work of an individual British, American, or Anglophone author. The author varies from year to year, but the focus of the course is an immersion into the work of that author and an engagement with the criticism of that work. In some seminars students may work with archival material. Others will focus primarily on the texts, explore significant debates about the work or its interpretation, or view the texts through a specific theoretical framework. Course may be repeated as topic varies.
Course may be repeated. Enrollment limit: 15 Open only to students with junior or senior standing Signature of instructor required for registration. Prerequisite: ENGL 20A,20B,21A,21B, and at least one Approaches course. Offered spring semester.

ENGL 300 - Formerly 180 - Independent Study in Literature (2-4)

A tutorial course with meetings by arrangement and oral and written reports. Students who wish to pursue independent study must offer for approval of the instructor a proposal on a literary topic not covered in the curriculum. Joint proposals by two or more students may be submitted.
Course may be repeated. Open only to students with junior or senior standing Signature of instructor required for registration. Offered every semester.

HIST 101 - Formerly 1 - History of the United States, From Contact to 1877 (4)

A study of the development of the United States from first contact between Europeans and Native peoples through the Civil war and reconstruction. Covers such issues as the rationale for contact and conquest, the nature of colonial development, the American revolution, the transformation of the republic into a democracy, expansion to the Pacific, industrialization, the development and implications of slavery, and national collapse and reunion.
Offered fall semester.
Fulfills: BH, DUS

HIST 102 - Formerly 2 - History of the United States, 1876-Present (4)

A survey of the development of American society from Reconstruction to the present. Treats major events, such as the Great Depression, and explores significant themes, such as industrialization and world power.
Offered spring semester.
Fulfills: BH

HIST 211 - Formerly 15 - African-American History: African Origins to 1877 (4)

An examination of the experiences that shaped African-American life from the period of the trans-Atlantic slave trade to the end of Reconstruction. Explores how Africans became African-Americans and how they reclaimed their culture, dignity, and humanity as individuals and as a community.
Offered Annually.
Fulfills: BH, DUS

HIST 212 - Formerly 16 - The Struggle for Equality: African-American History from 1860 to The Present (4)

An examination of the African-American struggle for equality in American society from the Civil War to the present. Topics include the relationship among gender, race, and class; the relationship between African-American leaders and the masses; African-American culture; urban migrations; the evolution of African-American relationships with local, state, and federal government; and contemporary issues.
Offered annually.
Fulfills: DUS, BH, WI

HIST 305 - Formerly 102 - Colonial America (4)

The social, cultural, economic, and political changes that created a distinctive American society in British North America from first contact through 1760. Special attention to interactions between European, African, and Native Americans and the rise of distinctly American institutions and ideas.
Enrollment priority: given to HIST majors and minors. Recommended: HIST 1 or 15. Offered fall semesters in odd numbered years.
Fulfills: BH, DUS

HIST 306 - Formerly 104 - The American Revolution (4)

The revolutionary conflict between the American colonies and the British Empire that produced an independent American nation, situating that conflict within dramatic social, cultural, and economic transformations in eastern North America in the late eighteenth century and addressing how contemporaries understood the nature and limits of revolutionary potential in the process of creating a new polity.
Offered spring semester in odd-numbered years.
Fulfills: BH

HIST 308 - Formerly 105 - The American Civil War (4)

An examination of the breakdown of national consensus and compromise in 19th-century America and the growth of Southern and Northern identities and conflicts. Studies the nature of the slave system and its effects on Southern society and the industrial system and its effects on the North, as well as the Civil War itself, the battles and leaders, and its impact on the two "nations."
Offering to be determined.
Fulfills: BH

HIST 326 - Formerly 107 - Popular Culture and Its Critics (4)

The intellectual history of American popular culture criticism examines different literatures about popular or "mass" culture and its supposed effects, its production, and its patterns of consumption, drawing on historical critiques in general along with recent analyses of particular genres.
Prerequisite: Some lower division history

HIST 319 - Formerly 108 - The History of Work in America (4)

This course discusses fundamental shifts in the nature of work in America from the 17th through the 20th centuries, alongside the social, cultural and political changes that invested work with different meanings over time. Topics covered include the origins of a slave labor system, the impact of the industrial revolution on both men and women's work, the evolving relationship between workers and the state, the development and impact of an organized labor movement, as well as the "new economy" in postwar America.
Recommended: Recommended HIST 1,2,15, or 16. Offered spring semester in odd-numbered years.
Fulfills: BH

HIST 312 - Formerly 109 - The United States Since World War II (4)

A study of the major changes in contemporary American society since 1945. Explores the effects of the Cold War, the modern consumer economy, and technology on the institutions and values of the American people.
Offered annually.
Fulfills: BH, WI

HIST 323 - Formerly 115 - African-American Intellectual and Social History (4)

A study of the intellectual arguments and social institutions that have empowered African-American leaders and the masses to maintain and assert their humanity within a world of oppression. Focuses on how gender, race, and class have created diverse ideas and opinions among African-Americans and the methods used by African-American intellectuals to analyze these ideas and opinions.
Offered spring semester in alternate years. Same as:

HIST 327 - Formerly 122 - Presidents and the Presidency in the United States, 1787-Present (4)

A study of the origins and evolution of the American presidency. Focuses on those presidents (Washington, Jackson, Lincoln, F. D. Roosevelt) who had the greatest effect on the office and the slow accretion of changing precedents and policies over time.
Offered fall semester in alternate years.

HIST 318 - Formerly 124 - A History of Business in America (4)

A study of the role of business in American history, emphasizing the significance of the corporation and "big business. Focuses on the corporation between the Civil War and the First World War as the formative period in the development of modern business values, techniques, and institutions.
Offered fall semester in alternate years.

HIST 321 - Formerly 126 - American Women's History (4)

A survey of the social, economic, political, and intellectual history of women in America from the colonial period to the present, with a special emphasis on the 19th and 20th centuries. Considers the diversity of women's experience as a result of race, class, ethnicity, and geographic location. Emphasizes developing skills in the use of primary sources-written, artifactual, and oral. Topics vary annually.
May be repeated for credit as topic changes. Offered fall semester.
Fulfills: BH, DUS

HIST 301 - Formerly 190 - Selected Topics in History (1-4)

A study of a historical theme or topic that uses a methodological approach or viewpoint not fully explored within the departmental offerings. Topics vary according to student interest and faculty expertise.
May be repeated for credit as topic changes. Offering to be determined.
Fulfills: BH

HIST 300 - Formerly 196 - Independent Study (1-4)

A tutorial course stressing independent investigation of a topic selected in conference with the instructor and approved by the department. Admission by petition to or by invitation from the department.
May be repeated for credit. Signature of instructor required for registration.

MUS 234 - Formerly 34 - History of Jazz (4)

A course designed to help students become familiar with and appreciate jazz as an important American art form through listening together with discussion of key artists, styles, terminology, culture and traditions. Attendance at a live performance is required.
Offered fall semester.
Fulfills: DUS, BA

MUS 240 - Formerly 40 - Music in the American Century (4)

A broad survey of American music from John Adams to Ellen Taaffe Zwilich. We will examine neo-romantic trends in the music of Samuel Barber, Amy Beach and John Corigliano, the transcendentalism of Charles Ives, the American West in Aaron Copland, jazz in the music of Leonard Bernstein and the innovations of minimalist composers Phillip Glass and Steve Reich, and the new directions of the "avant-garde" from John Cage to Pauline Oliveros.
Offered in odd-numbered years.

PHIL 304 - Formerly 104 - Problems of Ethics and Meta-Ethics (4)

Critical discussions of issues in contemporary moral philosophy in the areas of applied ethics, normative ethics, and meta-ethics. At the most highly theoretical level are considerations about the meaning of moral terms that give rise to cognitive and noncognitive theories of ethics. At a more immediate level are problems of practical concern having to do with such issues as euthanasia, abortion, animal rights, and world hunger. Readings are from 20th-century philosophers, most of whom are alive today.
Offered spring semester.

PSCI 103 - Formerly 6 - American Government and Politics (4)

A study of institutions and politics in the American political system. Ways of thinking about how significant problems and conflicts are resolved through the American political process.
Offered every semester.
Fulfills: BSS

PSCI 301 - Formerly 101 - Civil Liberties (4)

An intensive investigation of the struggle within our legal system over the interpretation of the Bill of Rights. Reviews relevant cases and resulting opinions. Examines the behavior of the justices as well as issues involving the impact of and compliance with the court's decisions.
Offered annually.

PSCI 302 - Formerly 103 - Criminal Justice (4)

An examination of the three major criminal justice institutions-police, courts, and prisons. Emphasizes how our major cities are dealing with the problem of crime as well as the discretionary powers of critical actors within the justice system.
Offered annually.

PSCI 305 - Formerly 115 - Political Sociology (4)

For course description, see Sociology listings.
Same as: SOC 315 - Formerly 115 - . Prerequisite: SOC 101 - Formerly 1 - or permission of instructor Offered spring semester.

PSCI 319 - Formerly 121 - Selected Studies in American Politics and Administration (4)

Topics vary as the department may direct. Topics have included state politics, policy analysis, media and politics, and politics and culture.
May be repeated for credit as topic changes. Offering to be determined.

PSCI 306 - Formerly 122 - American Political Parties and Interest Groups (4)

This course examines the origins, structure and political functions of political parties and interest groups in the U.S. Topics include strategies and influence of interest groups in American politics, the development and significance of the two-party system in the U.S., and recent changes in both types of political institutions and their relationship to each other. This is a writing intensive seminar and students should be prepared to write a significant number of papers of varying length and will be expected to extensively revise their work.
Offered in alternate years.
Fulfills: WI, DUS

PSCI 331 - Formerly 126 - Seminar in Political Philosophy (4)

A study of a movement, problem, or thinker in political theory. Examples are the communitarian critics of liberal democratic theory, John Rawls, personality structure and polity, religion and the state, Kant's political philosophy, the death penalty, anarchism, altruism, the future of socialism, recent conservatives.
May be repeated for credit as topic changes. Offered annually.

PSCI 308 - Formerly 129 - Urban Policy Research (4)

An analysis of the major political and social problems facing urban governments. Examples of policy issues studied are education, housing, crime, and transportation. Students conduct empirical research examining a selected policy issue.
Prerequisite: Offered in alternate years.

PSCI 361 - Formerly 134 - Latin America and U.S. Foreign Policy (4)

An examination of current relations between the United States and Latin American states, as well as the history, doctrines, institutions, objectives, and interests that shape these relations.
Offered annually.
Fulfills: DIT

PSCI 311 - Formerly 142 - Seminar on American Political Participation (4)

An examination of the various forms of American political participation. The course focuses on such activities as elections, social movements, civil disobedience, and political violence. The class also examines the causes and effects of non-participation. A central goal is to investigate the democratic theories that underpin American politics.
Course may be repeated. Offered fall semester.

PSCI 300 - Formerly 152 - Independent Study in Political Science (2-4)

Independent investigation of a topic selected in conference with the instructor and approved by the department. One meeting weekly; oral and written reports.
May be repeated for credit with the approval of the department. Admission by petition to or by invitation of the department. Signature of instructor required for registration. Prerequisite: One year of political science and permission of the instructor Offered each semester.

PSCI 313 - Formerly 155 - Gender and U.S. Politics (4)

An analysis of the relationship between gender and politics from various theoretical perspectives. Focuses on the multiple ways that gender, race, and class have influenced political participation and political institutions at the at the grass roots, state, and national levels. Explores the construction of women's political interests and how those interests are, and have been, represented in political life in the United States.
Offered spring semester.
Fulfills: DUS, BSS

PSCI 314 - Formerly 159 - American Political Economy (4)

This course explores the relationship between politics and economics in the U.S. The course begins with a theoretical exploration of the relationship democracy and capitalism and examines the differences between government and market solutions to collective action problems. The second component of the course examines the political practices of business, labor, and other political actors. The last part of the course builds on the first two in an assessment of a range of public policies in the U.S. including, for example, economic policies, industrial relations, and employment policy.
Enrollment priority: Given to senior Political Sciences Majors. Prerequisite: PSCI 103 - Formerly 6 - recommended. Offered in alternate years.

PSCI 385 - Formerly 174 - Policy Making in Washington (4)

A seminar focusing on the interactions among individuals and institutions that characterize the policy process in Washington. Includes meetings with active participants in the policy process: members of Congress and officials of the executive branch, the judiciary, political parties, interest groups, and the press. Seminar meetings are built around discussion of current policy issues but also include instruction in research methods that aid students in successfully pursuing the research project required under PSCI 386 - Formerly 175 - .
Signature of instructor required for registration. Corequisite: Offered spring semester.

PSCI 386 - Formerly 175 - Research Projects: Washington (4)

Preparation of research projects to develop research techniques in the area of American politics.
Signature of instructor required for registration. Offered spring semester.

PSCI 303 - Formerly 196 - Constitutional Law and Civil Rights (4)

This course examines the structure and functioning of the United States Supreme Court the theories about judicial decision making, and legal and political debates on civil rights. Following the discussions on judicial review, federalism and separation of powers, the course will look historically on the U.S. Supreme Court's interpretation of the equal protection clause in relation to race, gender, culture, and immigration among other issues. Discussion will focus not only on landmark cases in constitutional law but also on the ways in which other legal actors, such as lawyers and interest groups, play a role in determining the nature and outcome of cases. We will look throughout at the relationship between law and politics as well as at the socio-cultural context in which judicial decisions are made.
Offered annually.
Fulfills: DUS

PSCI 317 - Formerly 197 - Education Policy and Politics (4)

This course will analyze both the politics and the policy of schooling in the United States. On the political side, we will explore the debate over the purposes of public education and the use of education as an electoral issue, as well as the individuals, groups, and institutions that compete to control schools, and how and where they seek to advance their different interests and values. On the policy side, we will analyze the impact of democratic control, federalism, and checks and balances on the provision of education in the U.S. and how and why school governance has evolved over time. The course will also examine the debates over specific school reforms such as: standards and testing, equalization of school finance, school choice, and the No Child Left Behind Act, as well as the unique challenges facing urban schools.
Offered annually.
Fulfills: DUS

PSCI 318 - Formerly 198 - Race and Politics (4)

This course will examine the role of race in American politics and its contemporary significance to the nation's citizens, politicians, and governmental institutions. Questions will include: What are the primary intra- and inter-group dynamics that shape contemporary minority politics? How do the politics of race intersect with the politics of class and gender? What opportunities and challenges exist in mobilizing the members of minority groups for political action in the U.S.? What role have racial issues and attitudes played in the electoral strategies of political parties and candidates and in the electoral choices of voters? How do the structures and processes of American political institutions affect the efforts of minority groups to secure political influence? How has the rise to power of minority politicians-particularly in many urban areas-affected policymaking? How successful have minority groups been in their quest to use government to expand economic and educational opportunity? How are demographic forces likely to reshape the politics of race and -American politics more generally- in the 21st century?
Offered annually.
Fulfills: WI, DUS

REL 304 - Formerly 24 - Religion in America (4)

A historical approach to American religious developments. The goal is to understand religious dimensions of the pluralistic nature of society in the United States. Topics will vary by course offering but are likely to include a consideration of varieties of Christianity in the United States, including Puritanism, the Great Awakening, the Enlightenment, Revivalism, the rise of denominationalism, and the emergence of sects and cults. Topics may also include African-American religion, civil religion, the interactions among Protestants, Catholics, and Jews in American society, and Middle Eastern and Asian religions in America. Course may be repeated as topic changes.
Course may be repeated. Offering to be determined.
Fulfills: BH, DUS

REL 248 - Formerly 38 - Contemporary American Catholicism (4)

An introduction to Roman Catholic life and thought as experienced in the United States, with emphasis upon the church's ongoing pursuit of aggiornamento (rethinking basic issues) in such areas as doctrine, ecclesial structures, and problems of the modern world. Focuses on the dialectic between institutional conformity and the American democratic ideal of personal freedom, between traditional consciousness and contemporary culture, between the dynamics of human existence and dogmatic and moral tenets.
Offered spring semester in even-numbered years.

REL 214 - Formerly 127 - Business Ethics (4)

A philosophical and theological study of those ethical, religious, and social issues that play an important role in thinking morally about economic and business practices. Attention is paid to practical ethical problems arising out of the functional areas of management and the wider areas of business and social responsibility in relation to the community, ecology, minorities, the role of multinationals and public safety.
Offered spring semester. Same as:

REL 390 - Formerly 133 - Selected Topics in Religious Studies (2-4)

An intensive study of topics chosen by the department.
Course may be repeated. Offering to be determined.
Fulfills: BH

REL 204 - Formerly 144 - Native American Religions (4)

This course investigates the origins of Native American religions, how they have changed, the reasons for those changes, and how Native Americans have influenced the beliefs of non Native Americans. History is the primary lens for this exploration. Issued such as Native American's relationship with nature and the supernatural are analyzed. Core concepts are presented and critically assessed with an emphasis on why Native Americans understandings mat differ from those of other religious groups. In the depth case studies are included, for example of Pueblos, Tainos, and Lakotas. The case studies may vary from year to year.
Offered in fall semester of even numbered years.

SOC 201 - Formerly 15 - Contemporary Social Problems (4)

An examination of contemporary social problems for their effect on American society. Considers proposed solutions to various social problems. The specific topics studied change to reflect contemporary American concerns. Such topics as aging, civil rights, crime, drug addiction, environmental pollution, mental illness, and poverty may be explored.
Prerequisite: SOC 101 - Formerly 1 - or permission of instructor Offered annually.

SOC 202 - Formerly 19 - Sociology of Inequality (4)

An analysis of the social and psychological causes, manifestations, and consequences of inequality. Examines class, gender, race and ethnicity, and age inequalities, with a focus on the United States.
Prerequisite: SOC 101 - Formerly 1 - or permission of instructor Offered spring semester.
Fulfills: DUS

SOC 225 - Formerly 25 - Sociology of Gender (4)

An analysis of contemporary gender roles from a variety of theoretical perspectives. Focuses on the social construction of gender and how gender affects our most intimate relationships. An examination of the implications of gender stratification for family and workplace. Explores historical and cross-cultural variations in gender roles, as well as variations by race, ethnicity, social class, and sexual orientation.
Prerequisite: SOC 101 - Formerly 1 - or permission of instructor Offered annually.
Fulfills: DUS

SOC 226 - Formerly 26 - Sociology of Race and Ethnicity (4)

Focuses on an analysis of race and ethnicity as social constructions. An examination of the creation of race and ethnic categories and process of social stratification based on these categories. Explores the historical, economic and political processes that shape our understanding of race and ethnicity in the U.S. and abroad.
Prerequisite: SOC 101 - Formerly 1 - or permission of instructor Offered annually.
Fulfills: DUS

SOC 227 - Formerly 27 - Sociology of Families (4)

An analysis of theoretical approaches to the study of the family with an emphasis on changing gender roles. Focuses on diversity among families and how definitions of "the family" are changing to incorporate variations in family structure by social class, ethnic and racial background, and sexual orientation. Topics include dating, love and romance, cohabitation, marriage and divorce, single-parent families, remarriage, day care, and violence in intimate family relationships.
Prerequisite: SOC 101 - Formerly 1 - or permission of instructor Offered annually.

SOC 229 - Formerly 29 - The Sociology of Aging (4)

A study of the key concepts, main theoretical perspectives, and important substantive issues of the sociology of aging. One of the central issues explored is gender differences in aging. Other issues include stereotypes, the social construction of life cycles, changes in relationships over the life course, eldercare, and work and retirement. Examines historical and cross-cultural variations in aging and differences by race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and social class.
Prerequisite: SOC 101 - Formerly 1 - or equivalent Offered Annually.
Fulfills: DUS

SOC 234 - Formerly 34 - Introduction to Social Welfare (4)

A sociological introduction to the institution of social welfare, using the theory and the methodology of sociology to analyze the role of social welfare in modern industrial society. Focuses on the historical development and the institutionalization of social welfare; contradictions between the ideal of social welfare and the manner in which it becomes actualized; and the relationships between social welfare and political, economic, and religious institutions. Uses sociological analysis in the study of specific social welfare institutions and agencies.
Prerequisite: SOC 101 - Formerly 1 - or permission of instructor Offering to be determined.

SOC 249 - Formerly 49 - Sociology of Work (4)

A sociological examination of the varieties of work and the ways in which the changing nature of work affects the well-being of the workers. Topics include different types of jobs, occupations and professions, low-wage work and poverty, worker health and safety, work and family, race, class and gender in the workplace, and collectives' responses to work.
Prerequisite: SOC 101 - Formerly 1 - . Offered annually.

SOC 250 - Formerly 50 - Sociology of Childhood and Youth (4)

An interdisciplinary approach is used to explore transformations in the cultural and emotional meanings of childhood. This course focuses on the development of institutions that serve their needs. It analyzes the disjunction between the social construction of childhood/youth and the lived experience. It examines how inequalities among children and youth vary based on class, gender, race, region, country, and their role as workers or consumers. The course also analyzes the political and economic commonalities among youth and children that relegate them to a separate and frequently segregated sphere of social life.
Prerequisite: SOC 101 - Formerly 1 - or permission of instructor. Offered annually.
Fulfills: DUS

SOC 304 - Formerly 104 - Sociology of Immigration (4)

A sociological and historical study of the issues surrounding immigration. The first section of the class looks at the macro side of immigration: some basic history of immigration waves to the U.S., causes and patterns of immigration, and issues such as immigrants in labor markets, economic and academic assimilation, immigrant crime, and the politics surrounding immigration both in the U.S. and abroad. The second section explores the micro side: the personal experience of immigration, immigrant identity, alienation, cultural assimilation, and acculturative stress.
Prerequisite: SOC 101 - Formerly 1 - or permission of instructor. Offering to be determined.
Fulfills: DUS

SOC 303 - Formerly 105 - Social Change (4)

A sociological, historical, and cross-cultural examination of social change. Covers theories of change and explores its many forms. Topics include the relationships of ideology and consciousness, technology, and demography to social change, and the making of societal change through social movements and revolutions. Examines change in both industrialized and Third World nations. Focuses on change in gender systems and the efforts of a variety of marginalized groups to transform the status quo.
Prerequisite: SOC 101 - Formerly 1 - or permission of instructor Offered annually.
Fulfills: WI

SOC 302 - Formerly 106 - Urban Sociology (4)

A sociological and historical examination of the city as a geographical, cultural, economic and political entity. Investigates processes of urbanization, suburbanization and globalization as forces shaping the current organization of social life. Topics covered include stratification, urban politics, international urbanization and social change.
Signature of instructor required for registration. Prerequisite: SOC 101 - Formerly 1 - or permission of instructor Offered in alternate years. Same as: RLSOC 101 - Formerly 1 - 06

SOC 307 - Formerly 107 - Criminology (4)

An analysis of the sociological aspects of crime with particular attention to the theoretical definition and the statistical incidence of criminal behavior in the United States. Focuses on major sociological theories of crime, the analysis of homicide, and sociohistorical attempts to control crime and rehabilitate criminals.
Prerequisite: SOC 101 - Formerly 1 - or equivalent Offered annually.

SOC 308 - Formerly 108 - Sociology of Population (4)

An introductory examination of the social study of population. Topics include current concern about population expansion; history of global demographic increases and decreases; examination of important demographic theories, particularly those of Malthus and Marx; analysis of the major demographic variables of fertility, mortality, and migration.
Prerequisite: SOC 101 - Formerly 1 - or permission of instructor Offering to be determined.

SOC 309 - Formerly 110 - Sociology of Mass Communications (4)

An overview of how the mass media and American cultural, political and economic institutions mutually affect each other. Systems of mass communication examined include books, the Internet, magazines, movies, newspapers, and television. Two topics to be emphasized are: 1) the production, control, and consumption of various forms of information in the mass media; 2) comparative analyses of the uses of mass media in different countries.
Prerequisite: SOC 101 - Formerly 1 - or permission of instructor Offered fall semester. Same as:

SOC 311 - Formerly 111 - Sociology of Health and Illness (4)

A survey of the important themes involved in the sociological analysis of health problems and their treatment. Topics include different health care systems, doctor-patient relationships, professional socialization, other health care providers, epidemiology, and the social-psychological aspects of medical technology.
Prerequisite: SOC 101 - Formerly 1 - or permissions of the instructor. Offered spring semester.

SOC 315 - Formerly 115 - Political Sociology (4)

A presentation of the main themes and the dominant theoretical perspectives involved in the study of political processes and political institutions. Topics include politics, elections, nation building, national elites and public policy making, parties, and social movements.
Prerequisite: SOC 101 - Formerly 1 - or permission of instructor Offered spring semester. Same as: RLSOC 101 - Formerly 1 - 15

SOC 317 - Formerly 117 - The Sociology of Management (4)

A presentation of the main themes involved in the management of corporations and other business organizations. The themes examined are communication, decision making, innovation, leadership, strategy, and politics.
Prerequisite: SOC 101 - Formerly 1 - or permission of instructor Offered annually.

SOC 318 - Formerly 118 - Sociology of Education (4)

An analysis of the institutionalized ways of educating and training people in the United States. Emphasizes the functions of education for maintaining and/or changing the social structure. Examines the purposes and needs of the intellectual community.
Prerequisite: SOC 101 - Formerly 1 - or permission of instructor Offering to be determined.