This course will probe the brutal beginnings of inequality in Latin American by conquest and imperialism. Students will also explore the imagination and struggle of Latin American peoples to move beyond bloody beginnings and inequality.

This course will explore the practice of imaginative and narrative skills to engage in re-envisioning, shaping, and aiding individuals, groups and social institutions and structures.

An examination into the ways in which society influences the self and the individual produces society. The relationship between consciousness and social structure will be discussed. Theoretical focus may include symbolic interactionism, ethnomethodology and/or a Marxist perspective.

This course will provide an understanding of the social and historical context of modern educational institutions. It will explore the debates regarding the current transformations of public schools, with special attention to issues of inequality and radical pedagogy.

A concentrated look at the social function of language use in society. The extent to which languages create social reality will receive scrutiny. Particular topics may include language and social class, language and sex, linguistic politics, language and culture, or language cognition and development.

This course provides students with an understanding of the aging process. Sociology of Aging explores the social structures that influence aging. Students learn how demographic, social, economic, political, environmental, and organizational factors are used to understand aging from individual and societal standpoints.

An examination of contemporary religious phenomena from the viewpoint of social science. The course will also examine the significance of religious studies in the development of reasoning about society. Various religious social phenomena such as worship, prayer, the sacred, pilgrimage, texts and precepts will be examined.

Individual research is conducted under the supervision of a faculty member. Topic and format must be approved by the Department Chairperson and Dean.

Individual research is conducted under the supervision of a faculty member. Topic and format must be approved by the Department Chairperson and Dean.

A sociological study of the history of the political and legal changes that have shaped the contours of contemporary Federal Indian Law and the laws and governing systems of various Indian tribes. This course will also examine this history against emerging international human rights principles.