For qualified juniors and seniors. Admission by permission of the instructor and the chair of the department. Departmental permission forms required.

A laboratory course based on the preparation and performance of department productions. Students in the first semester of enrollment are assigned to a production run crew. In subsequent semesters of enrollment students elect to fulfill course requirements from a wide array of production-related responsibilities. May be taken four times for credit, with a maximum of two credits per semester. There will be one general meeting in the Fall (September 10) and in the Spring, in the Green Room, Theatre Building.

A society and its artistic and cultural journeys will be examined through the eyes of writers and other artists and intellectuals who lived both in Spain itself as well as in exile. From Romanticism to the Post-Franco and Postmodern eras (Goya to Almodovar). Prerequisite: SPN 220 or above. Enrollment limited to 19.

Such subjects as advanced theory, social organization and disorganization, culture contacts, problems of scientific methodology.

This is a full-year course.

By permission of the department, for junior and senior majors.

Qualitative research methods offer a means of gaining insight and understanding into complex perspectives held by people about social practices and social phenomena. Whereas good quantitative research captures scale, good qualitative research reaches the depth of perceptions, views, experiences, behaviors and beliefs. Qualitative research deals with meanings; it seeks to understand not just what people do, but why they choose to do what they do.

This course explores both the philosophy and practice of research methods. The first part of the course focuses on the scientific method and positivism as a model for social research and contemporary techniques of this model. Here we will discuss alternative social science paradigms and the relationship between sociological theory and research methods. The second part of the course focuses on the practice of quantitative research methods. Students will design and carry out a research project using survey methodology, along with exercises in additional quantitative methods.