This course provides a broad introduction to the basic principles and concepts of sociology including theories and methods, culture, socialization, organizations, institutions, stratification, collective behavior and social change.

This course uses a sociological perspective to identify structural causes, consequences, and solutions to social issues that affect everyday life. Topics covered include unemployment, food and housing insecurity, structural racism, gender discrimination, environmental policy, and systemic inequality in institutions such as education, healthcare, and criminal justice.

This course focuses on critical analysis of how social construction of race and ethnicity impacts everyday life through institutions such as the labor market, education system, environmental racism, healthcare, media, political system, and the criminal justice system. The course contextualizes US race and ethnic relations in the context of global migration and colonization, applying sociological theories and evidence to explore strategies to dismantle systemic racism.

This class focuses on sociological analysis of the construction, reproduction, and consequences of biological sex categories, sexuality, and gender roles and identities. The class explores gender and sexual identities as part of a spectrum, focusing on how individuals' lives are impacted by the social construction of gender, biological sex, and sexuality as binary. Topics include inequality in relationships, education and the workplace, law and public policy, and popular cultural representations.

Covers basic issues in the design and implementation of social science research. Topics covered include the scientific method, ethics, research design, basic descriptive and inferential statistics, and qualitative and quantitative methodologies. Student will conduct and present original research projects.

This course examines social factors that impact our private lives and challenges mainstream assumptions about what marriage and family should be. Sociological analysis of family includes historical and cross-cultural comparisons of family form and function, family values, gender roles, childhood and parenting, marriage and divorce, and contemporary debates about the meaning and purpose of family.