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.

For first-year students and sophomores; juniors and seniors with permission of the course director. Perspectives on society, culture, and social interaction. Topics include the self, emotions, culture, community, class, ethnicity, family, sex roles, deviance and economy. Colloquium format.

For first-year students and sophomores; juniors and seniors with permission of the course director. Perspectives on society, culture, and social interaction. Topics include the self, emotions, culture, community, class, ethnicity, family, sex roles, deviance and economy. Colloquium format.

For first-year students and sophomores; juniors and seniors with permission of the course director. Perspectives on society, culture, and social interaction. Topics include the self, emotions, culture, community, class, ethnicity, family, sex roles, deviance and economy. Colloquium format.

By permission of the department, for majors who have had four semester courses above the introductory level. This is a full-year course.

By permission of the department, for majors who have had four semester courses above the introductory level.

Advanced study of a major Russian literary text. Discussion, conversation, oral reports, papers. Prerequisite: 332 or permission of the instructor.

A continuation of 331. Prerequisite: 331 or permission of the instructor.

General grammar review. Selections from Russian texts, not exclusively literary. Prerequisite: 100y or the equivalent. This is a full-year course.

Topics course. The theme of revolution as a central concern of Soviet literature. Authors treated include Gorky, Bely, Blok, Mayakovsky, Pilnyak, Zamiatin, Gladkov, Babel, Sholokhov, Pasternak, Solzhenitsyn. In translation.