This course traces the origin and course of postcolonial intellectual and political projects of Afro-Caribbean thinkers and activists that crosscut themes of racism, classism, and sexism. The course surveys shifting socio-historical contexts and the accompanying theoretical and epistemological shifts that give rise to Critical Realism, Black Consciousness, Black Radical Thought, Black Marxism, and Caribbean Feminisms.

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This course looks at domestic, partner, and family violence as a social problem. Students will learn about the feminist social movement that brought domestic violence to national attention, how protections were codified into law, and the major critiques that have since arisen. Final project will combine your experiences in the community with what you learn in class, as you and a small group propose a potential intervention into the social problem of domestic violence.

Introduction to the sociology of mental illness, definitions and descriptions of mental illness, social and cultural causes for mental illness, family and public reactions and the problems of measuring mental illness and methods for its cure. Prerequisite: 100-level SOCIOL course.

Basic urban sociological concepts. Topics include the development of cities, the emergence of suburbs, the residential segregation of ethnic minorities. Considers trends in the US and abroad.

Social networks are commonplace in our everyday world and increasingly relevant online. This is an undergraduate-level introductory course on the study of social networks. This course provides a survey of substantive topics in the area of social networks and introduces fundamental concepts and methods of social network analysis. In addition, students will receive hands-on experience learning how to work with social network data. No prior experience with statistics or programming languages is required.

This course will take an historical approach to understanding the relationship between race, class and the criminal justice system. We will analyze the various ways that social inequality, as a result of race and class, mediate individual and social group experiences with crime and the legal system. We will also analyze the affect of mass incarceration on poor and marginalized communities. The main goal of the course is to situate contemporary inequalities in the criminal justice system and their impact on communities, social groups, and populations in an historical context.

The goal of this class is to place hate crime within the broader social and political context of intergroup antagonism (i.e. prejudice, ethnic violence, and homophobia, etc.).

The relation of deviant behavior to acceptable social patterns of behavior. Several forms of deviant behavior, both economic and personal transgressions of acceptable behavior. The causes and conditions for the creation of deviant behavior and the mechanisms for its social control. Prerequisite: 100-level Sociology course.