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Protests by professional and amateur athletes against racial and gender discrimination are not new or isolated events in U.S. history. In fact, sports have long been connected to the social, economic, and political issues of the day. With a particular focus on labor and civil rights struggle, our goal is to better understand the history of sports as it relates to social class, race, and gender. Students will analyze current controversies through this critical approach to sports and society.

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The many ways in which social factors shape sexuality. Focus on cultural diversity, including such factors as race/ethnicity, gender, and sexual identity in organizing sexuality in both individuals and social groups. Prerequisite: 100-level Sociology course. (Gen.Ed. SB, DU)

Interpretations of social life developed by symbolic interactionists. Topics include the interactionist approach to language, the self, deviance, social relationships, social structure and collective behavior. (Gen.Ed. SB, DU)

One of every ten people in the world lives in a megacity (>10 million people). Understanding urbanization and the culture of city life is essential, as is understanding the global connections of people, products, cultural values, and capital as they flow through these nodes. This course explores the history of urbanization and how places become centers of production and consumption.

This course introduces students to sociological theory, concepts, methods, and results of critical inquiry into the issue of globalization -- the complex and multi-level interconnections of historical, political, economic, and cultural dynamics taking place internationally and how globalization is tied into numerous social issues and inequalities in the U.S. and around the world. (Gen. Ed. SB)

The course surveys the historical and theoretical underpinnings of the modern international human rights regime. Students will explore the debate around universal vs. culturally determined rights, and construct an understanding of the legal structure that has developed over the past 60 years to adjudicate human rights violations. Then, drawing on human rights and sociology peer reviewed literature, human rights instruments, popular media, documentary films, biographies, and other sources the class will explore a broad range of both domestic and international human rights issues.

This course examines the social processes of rule-making and rule-breaking, and how categories of "normal" and "deviance" change historically. We examine different theories of conformity and deviance, using topics such as sexuality and politics.