GRADUATE COURSE SYLLABI FOR FALL 2009

Sociology 500: Classical Sociological Theory

Advanced study of selected classical theorists.

 

Section	Days & Time	Instructor
001	Wednesdays 4:00 PM - 6:30 PM	Beverly Burris

Sociology 521: Sociology of Education

Examination of the character and dynamics of education in human societies. Focus is on the organization and expansion of modern educational systems and the effects of education on individuals and society.

Sociology 523: Proseminar

Introduces incoming graduate student to each of the department's regular faculty members and their work.

Sociology 532: Sociology of Religion

Course contents of 422 plus attention to the nature of religious behavior, structure of religious organizations, and socioreligious change in contemporary societies through the works of Weber, Freud, Marx, Bellah, Geertz, Wuthnow and others.

Sociology 570: Topics: Qualitative Data Analysis

This course focuses on the ANALYSIS of qualitative data rather than research design, data gathering, or field relations. Ideally, students entering this course should have had an introductory course in qualitative methods and/or a course on field relations and data gathering and will come into the course with a data set that has already been entered into a word‑processing file. After a brief introduction to epistemological issues in qualitative research, the seminar will become a hands‑on workshop on data analysis.

Sociology 580: Methods in Social Research I

Analytical examination of traditional methodological issues including measurement, experimental design, sampling, theory construction, role of statistics and nature of probability.

Sociology 582: Advanced Social Social Statistics II

Additional methods for quantitative social research: regression diagnostics, logit and Poisson regression, principal components, correspondence analysis.

Prerequisite: Sociology 581.

Sociology 595: Topics: Immigration & Health: Comparative Perspectives

In this course, we will formulate explanations about how migration policies in different countries shape the experiences of migration, the experience of immigration, and how immigrants experience health and illness as well as access to the use of medical services. The quest that drives this course is, beyond the assimilation and acculturation paradigms, is there an alternative way to explain the 'healthy immigrant paradox.'