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.

Introduction to Sociology. Analysis of the consequences of membership in racial, gender, class and ethnic groups on social, economic and political life.
(Gen.Ed. SB, U)

This course must be taken concurrently with LANDARCH 547, Landscape Pattern & Process.

This course must be taken concurrently with LANDARCH 547, Landscape Pattern & Process.

This course must be taken concurrently with LANDARCH 547, Landscape Pattern & Process.

In this course we will examine historical and contemporary photographers working in the tradition of tableau narratives and other setup photographic practices. We will explore studio and on location artificial lighting, and work with large format analog cameras as well as digital cameras and workflows. Students will be expected to produce a cohesive portfolio of photographic work generated over the semester and research and write an essay on a photographer working in this genre. Students wishing to be in the course will have taken a college-level, analog or digital Photography I course.

This course is designed to look at eating disorders through the lens of Sociology. We will be discussing relevant topics such as social narratives around body image and media (including social media), gender norms, race, feminism, socioeconomic influences related to weight, the history of some of these variables and how they've evolved over time. We will also look at issues related to development and mental health including self-esteem, peer relationships, family systems/environment, mood disorders, trauma, diagnoses, healthcare policy and treatment.

This courses focuses on computational skills and computer programming which will advance technological literacy and develop critical thinking for our students. In the lab, students will work in groups and learn skills of teamwork and collaboration.

The course develops the practical knowledge and analytical skill required to make sense of field problems faced by public managers, and to design and implement strategic and effective practical action in the public sector. Satisfies the Integrative Experience requirement for BA-PolSci majors.

The world is filled with variations in children's and adolescents' home and school environments that influence how we develop, individually and in groups. In this seminar, we will consider quantitative cross-cultural and universalist perspectives and methods for testing competing hypotheses about human development in an international context.