In this course, we will examine feminist theorizations, critiques, and accounts of gender and sexuality in the context of nation-state formations, colonization, globalization, and migration. We will interrogate how the gendered body becomes a target of violence, regulation, and objectification, but also functions as a site of resistance. We will also examine how the body serves as a marker nation and identity, and a locus generating knowledge, both scientific and experiential.

This course critically examines instances of non-normative gender expression as they have occurred since the early encounters of European colonists with indigenes up to the present day in America. Using an interdisciplinary approach, we will delve into and probe texts from history, literature, the law, film and the media as we come to understand how the maintenance of the gender binary is critical to the grasp of power by the state and how third and fourth gender, transgender and gender non-conforming people threaten the stability of the traditional sex/gender system.

How have labor, social democratic and socialist movements shaped welfare in the U.S.? And how might they do so in the near future? These issues have come to the fore in the recent Presidential election campaign, and may be especially important to college-age voters. In this course we will review the sociological literature on the welfare state, with a focus on the influence of popular movements on its development. We will focus on the U.S., comparing and contrasting it with other wealthy democratic nations.

This course is designed to provide a thorough overview of how social network studies of health-related topics are conducted and the strengths and limits of various approaches. Topically, the material will engage sociology, population health and medicine and will be a combination of exposure to key texts; learning about methodological approaches and recent advances that have shaped studies of health and networks; and importantly, examining the frontiers and opportunities for the field to expand.

"What do you want to be when you grow up?" is a question most Americans have been asked, and have asked themselves, countless times since childhood. As the relentless asking of this question implies in contemporary American society our jobs not only determine our standards of living but also shape our identities. The question also implies that what one becomes is largely a matter of individual choice. This class will explore the often invisible sociological forces that shape our career paths.

Satisfies Junior Year Writing requirements for POLISCI majors, through assignments practicing the types of writing used by citizens, policy advisers, and politicians in public debates about contemporary issues.

Satisfies Junior Year Writing requirements for POLISCI majors, through assignments practicing the types of writing used by citizens, policy advisers, and politicians in public debates about contemporary issues.

This course is designed to help students improve their ability to analyze and write about complicated legal issues. You should expect to do a lot of writing in this course. You will learn how to read and understand court opinions and how to find your way around a law library. Writing assignments include your own resume and a job application letter, case briefs, memoranda, OP-ED essays, and a research paper. These assignments are written from the perspective of a lay person writing to another lay person.

This course is designed to help students improve their ability to analyze and write about complicated legal issues. You should expect to do a lot of writing in this course. You will learn how to read and understand court opinions and how to find your way around a law library. Writing assignments include your own resume and a job application letter, case briefs, memoranda, OP-ED essays, and a research paper. These assignments are written from the perspective of a lay person writing to another lay person.

Citizenships and belongings are unstable, dynamic, ongoing sites of struggle that animate one another. This course looks at citizenships and belongings as communication practices that include and produce multiple and competing discourses, relations, and lived experiences. Using critical women of color, feminist, queer and performance theories, the course begins and centers questions on citizenships and belongings from and through their systemic exclusions, namely those whose subjectivities, bodies, identities and relations place them outside the bounds of the norm.