Performance study - individual instruction.

Performance study - individual instruction.

Performance study - individual instruction.

Performance study - individual instruction.

We will read a number of key feminist texts that theorize sexual difference, and challenge the oppression of women. We will then address queer theory, an offshoot and expansion of feminist theory, and study how it is both embedded in, and redefines, the feminist paradigms. This redefinition occurs roughly at the same time (1980s/90s) when race emerges as one of feminism's prominent blind spots. The postcolonial critique of feminism is a fourth vector we will examine, as well as anti-racist and postcolonial intersections with queerness.

A critical analysis of race, racism, and justice in the United States, as set in a socio-historical context defined by power. In addition to traditional modes of teaching-learning, students use intergroup dialogue and collaborative group work to examine how race is constructed, experienced, reproduced, and transformed within social structures.

This course introduces the theory and methods which underpin efforts to study social relations through the influential paradigm of network analysis. It features a hands-on component using Python/R that involves data manipulation, visualization, and modeling. These individual hands-on activities will invite students to think critically about how social theories and phenomena are quantified, measured, and compared.

This course is an introduction to the use of quantitative data in sociology. It focuses on the ways in which data is collected, analyzed, and presented to make sociological arguments. It introduces various tools to describe data for single variables, explore relationships between pairs of variables, and make statistical inferences. Students will learn basic skills to conduct their own social science research and analyze data using statistical software.

Cultural sociology examines the ways in which meaning shapes social life, including the food we eat, what we wear, who we vote for, where we travel, and even wars that are fought. This course focuses on symbols, narratives, performance, aesthetics, and emotion, and traces the interdisciplinary development of cultural sociological thought, from foundational theory to breakthroughs in cultural anthropology, linguistics, and theater studies, all the way up to contemporary cultural sociology.

We live in a financialized world dominated by financial actors, markets and institutions. From the Occupy Wall Street movement to ongoing debates about the power of big banks, finance has been seen as the culprit for the 2008 financial crisis, U.S. income and wealth inequality, and global instability. But what explains the rise of finance and how has finance gone global? How does global finance contribute to inequality within and across nations? We will tackle these questions by covering some of the recent sociological research on finance and financial globalization.