printer friendly pageSOC 268: Global Organizations: Managing Diversity (PUBLPOL 168, SOC 168)
Analytical tools derived from the social sciences to analyze global organizations and projects, and applied to the tradeoffs between different designs of teams and organizations. Focus is on tribal mentality and how to design effective organizations and projects for policy implementation within and across institutional settings. Recommended: 102, MS&E 180, or
SOC 160.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Meyersson Milgrom, E. (PI)
SOC 270: Classics of Modern Social Theory (SOC 170)
(Graduate students register for 270). Preference to Sociology majors. Contributions of Marx, Weber, and Durkheim to contemporary sociology. Topics: the problem of social order and the nature of social conflict; capitalism and bureaucracy; the relationship between social structure and politics; the social sources of religion and political ideology; and the evolution of modern societies. Examples from contemporary research illustrate the impact of these traditions. Limited enrollment.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
Instructors:
McDermott, M. (PI)
SOC 273: Gender and Higher Education: National and International Perspectives (EDUC 273)
The effects of interactions between gender and the structures of higher education; policies seeking changes in those structures. Topics: undergraduate and graduate education, faculty field of specialization, rewards and career patterns, sexual harassment, and the development of feminist scholarship and pedagogy.
Last offered: Spring 2009
SOC 280A: Foundations of Social Research (SOC 180A)
Formulating a research question, developing hypotheses, probability and non-probability sampling, developing valid and reliable measures, qualitative and quantitative data, choosing research design and data collection methods, challenges of making causal inference, and criteria for evaluating the quality of social research. Emphasis is on how social research is done, rather than application of different methods. Limited enrollment; preference to Sociology and Urban Studies majors, and Sociology coterms.
Terms: Aut, Spr
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Sorensen, A. (PI)
SOC 280B: Evaluation of Evidence (SOC 180B)
Methods for analyzing and evaluating data in sociological research: comparative historical methods, ethnographic observation, quantitative analysis of survey data, experimentation, and simulation. Emphasis is on application of these methods through small data analysis projects. Limited enrollment; preference to Sociology majors.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Rosenfeld, M. (PI)
SOC 281B: Sociological Methods: Statistics (SOC 181B)
(Graduate students register for 281B.) Statistical methods of relevance to sociology: contingency tables, correlation, and regression.
SOC 300: Workshop: Teaching Development
For first-year Sociology doctoral students only. The principles for becoming an effective instructor, adviser, and mentor to undergraduates. Topics: ethics, course organization and syllabus development, test construction and grading, conflict resolution, common classroom problems, and University policies related to matters such as sexual harassment. Technologies and other topics related to making effective presentations, and campus resources to improve classroom performance. Roundtable discussions with faculty and advanced graduate students known for teaching excellence. Students may be asked to give a demonstration lecture.
Instructors:
Young, K. (PI)
SOC 305: Graduate Proseminar
For first-year Sociology doctoral students only. Introduction and orientation to the field of Sociology.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 1
Instructors:
Walder, A. (PI)
SOC 308: Social Demography
For graduate students and advanced undergraduates. Topics: models of fertility behavior, migration models, stable population theory, life table analysis, data sources, and measurement problems. How population behavior affects social processes, and how social processes influence population dynamics. Recommended: sociological research methods; basic regression analysis and log linear models.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
Instructors:
Snipp, C. (PI)
SOC 309: Nations and Nationalism
The nation as a form of collective identity in the modern era. Major works in the study of nations and nationalism from comparative perspectives with focus on Europe and E. Asia.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
Instructors:
Shin, G. (PI)
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