The courses listed under each concentration are the sort that can be used to meet the 4 c.u. requirements for the concentration. Additional courses, such as “Special Topics” courses (Sociology 230), will be available from time to time. Each student’s program must be approved by the undergraduate chair to ensure that it is sufficiently comprehensive and coherent.

The sociology of culture investigates an aspect of human life that is central to its definition, the origins and development of meanings - religious, moral, normative, esthetic, cognitive - and how they are expressed in and serve to shape human conduct. Processes of cultural innovation as well as cultural stability are examined in various social institutions and settings of American as well as Middle Eastern, European, and Asian societies.

Basic Courses:

SOC 2 Social Problems and Public Policy
SOC 5 American Society
SOC 102 The City in Social Theory
SOC 104 Sociology of Sex: Comparative Approach
SOC 118 Sociology of Bioethics
SOC 122 Sociology of Gender
SOC 125 Classical Sociological Theory
SOC 126 Contemporary Sociological Theory
SOC 137 Sociology of Media and Popular Culture
SOC 229 Media, Culture and Society: Theoretical Approaches
SOC 230 Sociology of Knowledge
SOC 233 Criminology
SOC 239 Sociology of Religion
SOC 430 Art and Society
SOC 441 Issues and Research of Media/Pop Culture
SOC 250-601 Minorities and Media

Advanced Courses:

SOC 530 Social Movement and Social Change
SOC 546 Feminist Theory
SOC 559 Theories of Religious Behavior
SOC 561 Sociology of Culture: Art, Knowledge, Religion, and Science
SOC 595 Media, Culture and Society

Last Modified: 07-Nov-2003
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