29 courses with the subject SOCI, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
SOCI 1000001/12653 T Th 4:10pm - 5:25pm Marissa 4.00 116/150
301 Pupin Laboratories Thompson SOCI UN1203 The Social Animal in the Digital Age. 3.00 points. This course re-examines central theories and perspectives in the social sciences from the standpoint of digital technologies. Who are we in the digital age? Is the guiding question for the course. We consider the impact of modern technology on society including, forms of interaction and communication, possibilities for problem solving, and re-configurations of social relationships and forms of authority. The course integrates traditional social science readings with contemporary perspectives emerging from scholars who looking at modern social life. The course is an introductory Sociology offering Fall 2025: SOCI UN1203 Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
SOCI 2208001/00306 T Th 1:10pm - 2:25pm Jonathan 3.00 30/45
302 Barnard Hall Rieder SOCI UN2240 ECONOMY # SOCIETY. 3.00 points. An introduction to economic sociology. Economic sociology is built around the claim that something fundamental is lost when markets are analyzed separately from other social processes. We will look especially at how an analysis of the interplay of economy and society can help us to understand questions of efficiency, questions of fairness, and questions of democracy. SOCI UN3000 SOCIAL THEORY. 4.00 points. majors. Prerequisite: at least one sociology course of the instructor's permission. Theoretical accounts of the rise and transformations of modern society in the19th and 20th centuries. Theories studied include those of Adam Smith, Tocqueville, Marx, Durkheim, Max Weber, Roberto Michels. Selected topics: individual, society, and polity; economy, class, and status: organization and ideology; religion and society; moral and instrumental action Fall 2025: SOCI UN3000 Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollmen
Sophomore standing. Sophomore standing. Required for all sociology
SOCI 3000002/12036 T Th 10:10am - 11:25am Gil Eyal 4.00 48/90
Cin Alfred Lerner Hall SOCI UN3010 METHODS FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH. 4.00 points. Required for all Sociology majors. Introductory course in social scientific research methods. Provides a general overview of the ways sociologists collect information about social phenomena, focusing on how to collect data that are reliable and applicable to our research questions Fall 2025: SOCI UN3010 Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
SOCI 3015001/01156 M W 8:40am - 9:55am Bizaa Ali 3.00 20/30
202 Milbank Hall SOCI BC3087 INDIVIDUAL SENIOR PROJECTS. 4.00 points. required. The instructor will supervise the writing of long papers involving some form of sociological research and analysis Fall 2025: SOCI BC3087 Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
SOCI 3202001/00018 T Th 6:10pm - 7:25pm Maati 3.00 48/50
328 Milbank Hall Momplaisir Barnard College Catalogue 2025-2026 603 SOCI UN3203 Power, Politics # Society. 3.00 points. Power, Politics, and Society introduces students to the field of political sociology, a subfield within sociology that is deeply engaged in the study of power in formal and diffuse forms. Using sociological theories and current events from the US and around the world, this course is designed to help students analyze their social worlds, and understand the significance of the old adage, “everything is political.” nt Spring 2026: SOCI UN3203 Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
SOCI 3203001/00514 M W 11:40am - 12:55pm Randa Serhan 3.00 55/60
418 Barnard Hall SOCI UN3207 MUSIC, RACE # IDENTITY. 3.00 points. Analysis of the complex relationship among race, art, organizations, economics, social movements and identity. Emphasis is on shifting conceptions of identity and changing roles of race and racism in the spirituals, gospel music, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, rocknroll, soul music, Hip Hop and contemporary popular music Spring 2026: SOCI UN3207 Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
SOCI 3207001/00019 T Th 1:10pm - 2:25pm Jonathan 3.00 37/45
140 Horace Mann Hall Rieder SOCI BC3214 SOC OF AFRICAN AMERICAN LIFE. 3.00 points. Emphasizes foundations and development of black communities post-1940, and mechanisms in society that create and maintain racial inequality. Explores notions of identity and culture through lenses of gender, class and sexual orientation, and ideologies that form the foundation of black politics. Primarily lecture with some discussion Spring 2026: SOCI BC3214 Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
SOCI 3214001/00020 T Th 2:40pm - 3:55pm Mignon Moore 3.00 14/20
207 Milbank Hall SOCI UN3217 LAW # SOCIETY. 3 points. Examines how people use law, how law affects people, and how law develops, using social scientific research. Covers law in everyday life; legal and social change; legal subjects such as citizens and corporations, and the legitimacy of law. Recommended for pre-law and social-science majors. No required prerequisites or previous knowledge. SOCI BC3219 RACE, ETHNICITY # SOCIETY. 3.00 points. Examines the social construction of race and ethnicity in the United nt States from colonial period to present. Analyzes how capitalist interests, class differences, gender, immigration, and who “deserves” the full rights and privileges of citizenship, shape boundaries between and within racial and ethnic groups. Also considers how racism affects nt resource access inequities between racial groups in education, criminal justice, media, and other domains. Explores factors underpinning major social change with an eye toward discerning social conditions necessary to create and sustain just social systems Fall 2025: SOCI BC3219 Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
SOCI 3225001/00322 M W 4:10pm - 5:25pm Dominic 3.00 41/4
323 Milbank Hall Walker SOCI UN3235 SOCIAL MOVEMENTS. 4.00 points. movements and the theories social scientists use to explain them, with emphasis on contemporary American activism. Cases include the Southern civil rights movement, Black Lives Matter, contemporary feminist mobilizations, LGBTQ activism, immigrant rights and more recent forms of grassroots politics Fall 2025: SOCI UN3235 Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enro
SOCI 3241001/00021 M W 2:40pm - 3:55pm Randa Serhan 3.00 40/4
418 Barnard Hall SOCI BC3242 Sociology of Art. 3.00 points. This course challenges students to read broadly and across disciplines to develop a robust understanding of the social world of the arts, engaging literatures across sub-fields of sociology, art history, cultural studies, law, policy, and economics to develop analytical strategies for understanding the complex landscape of art, artistic practice, and artistic engagement in the social universe SOCI BC3244 Environmental Sociology. 3.00 points. This course examines the social roots and impacts of environmental contamination and disasters, in order to understand how humans relate to nature in the context of global racial capitalism and the possibilities for creating a more sustainable world. We will also explore how racism is foundational to environmental exploitation and consider why global struggles for racial justice are crucial for protecting both people and the earth, paying particular attention to how environmental health inequalities are linked to race, class, gender, and nation. We will consider key theories, debates, and unresolved questions in the subfield of environmental sociology and discuss future directions for the sociological study of human/environment relations llment Fall 2025: SOCI BC3244 Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment 5 Number Number
SOCI 3244001/00324 M W 5:40pm - 6:55pm Maricarmen 3.00 40/45
328 Milbank Hall Hernandez SOCI UN3246 MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY. 3.00 points. Examines the ways sociologists have studied the field of medicine and experiences of health and illness. We cannot understand topics of health and illness by only looking at biological phenomena; we must consider a variety of social, political, economic, and cultural forces. Uses sociological perspectives and methods to understand topics such as: unequal patterns in health and illness; how people make sense of and manage illness; the ways doctors and patients interact llment with each other; changes in the medical profession, health policies and institutions; social movements around health; and how some 0 behaviors but not others become understood as medical problems. Course is geared towards pre-med students as well as those with general interests in medicine, health and society Spring 2026: SOCI UN3246 Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
328 Milbank Hall SOCI BC3750 HOW RACE GETS UNDER OUR SKIN: THE SOCIOLOGY OF RACE, HEALTH, AND BIOMEDICINE. 4.00 points. One of the glaring forms of inequalities that persists today is the race-based gap in access to health care, quality of care, and health outcomes. This course examines how institutionalized racism and the structure of health care contributes to the neglect and sometimes abuse of racial and ethnic minorities. Quite literally, how does race affect one’s life chances? This course covers a wide range of topics related to race and health, including: racial inequalities in health outcomes, biases in medical institutions, immigration status and health, racial profiling in medicine, and race in the genomic era WMST BC3131 WOMEN AND SCIENCE. 4.00 points. womens involvement with science. Womens contributions to scientific discovery in various fields, accounts by women scientists, engineers, and physicians, issues of science education. Feminist critiques of biological research and of the institution of science
606 Lewisohn Hall MDES UN3331 URBAN SPACE # CONFLICT IN MIDDLE EAST. 3.00 ment points. 0 This course explores how civil war, revolution, militarization, mass violence, refugee crises, and terrorism impact urban spaces, and how city dwellers engage in urban resilience, negotiate and attempt to reclaim their right to the city. Through case studies of Beirut (1975- present), Baghdad (2003-present), Cairo (2011-present), Diyarbakir (1914-present), Aleppo (1914-present), and Jerusalem (1914-present), this course traces how urban life adjusted to destruction (and post- conflict reconstruction), violence, and anarchy; how neighborhoods were reshaped; and how local ethnic, religious, and political dynamics played out in these cities and metropolises. Relying on multi- disciplinary and post-disciplinary scholarship, and employing a wealth of audiovisual material, literary works, and interviews conducted by the instructor, the course scrutinizes how conflicts have impacted urban life in the Middle East, and how civilians react to, confront, and resist militarization in urban spaces Spring 2026: MDES UN3331 Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
SOCI 3302001/00024 T Th 8:40am - 9:55am Nic Rios 3 12/25
302 Barnard Hall SOCI UN3324 Global Urbanism. 3 points. CC/GS/SEAS: Partial Fulfillment of Global Core Requirement Using classical texts about cities (do they still work for us?) and on the diverse new literatures on cities and larger subjects with direct urban implications, we ill use a variety of data sets to get a detailed empirical information, and draw on two large ongoing research projects involving major and minor global cities around the world (a total of over 60 cities are covered in detail as of 2008). Students will need to register for a discussion section as well; details to be announced. SOCI UN3701 Sociology of Energy. 4 points. This course explores many of the social forces that determine how energy is produced and what the consequences are. The course will focus in particular on how geographic communities, social identities, and related economics, cultures, and politics shape energy production. Barnard College Catalogue 2025-2026 605 SOCI UN3721 Social Justice: Connecting Academics to Action. 5.00 points. This course will create an opportunity for active engagement between students doing sociology and a local organization working for social change by organizing immigrant communities, Make the Road New York. Students will be expected to actively study and/or participate in a project designed by the instructor and organization leaders. The action/research will primarily take the form of interviews (conducting interviews with members and leaders from an organization or campaign) and participant observation (taking part in the activities of the organization/campaign) and analysis of those interviews and observations. To accomplish this collaborative research project, students will take on different roles throughout the course, including that of fieldworker, project coordinator, analysis coordinator, and context researcher. Students will also read, discuss, and write about literature on scholarly-community partnerships and community organizing. Admittance by application and interview only. Preference to Sociology majors. Spanish speakers and writers, juniors, and seniors SOCI UN3900 Societal Adaptations to Terrorism. 4 points. Examines how countries have adjusted to the threat of terrorism. How the adaptation reflects the pattern of terrorist attacks, as well as structural and cultural features of the society. Adaptations by individuals, families, and organizational actors. SOCI UN3901 The Sociology of Culture. 4 points. permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 15 students. ent Drawing examples from popular music, religion, politics, race, and gender, explores the interpretation, production, and reception of cultural texts and meanings. Topics include aesthetic distinction and taste communities, ideology, power, and resistance; the structure and functions of subcultures; popular culture and high culture; and ent ethnography and interpretation. Fall 2025: SOCI UN3901 Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
Junior or Senior standing SOCI BC1003 or equivalent social science course and
SOCI 3920001/00647 W 9:00am - 10:50am Nic Rios 4.00 5/15
101a Barnard Hall SOCI BC3922 Race, Nation, and American Food Culture. 4 points. Uses theories of race, ethnicity, and nation to ask questions about boundaries, categories, and distinctions about the American food system. Addresses the following questions: How are race, ethnicity, and national identity shaped by patterns of migration? How do processes like multiculturalism, panethnicity, and blending change the meanings and salience of these terms? How do symbols and systems ment of authenticity shape meaning-making around ethnoracial and national inequality? What does food have to do with race/ethnicity/nation? How are cultural products, like cuisine, markers of broader systems of inequality? How do these systems of inequality affect access to food, what we eat, the workplace, and racialized bodies? How does food serve as a marker of distinction in terms of race, ethnicity, nation, class, and gender? This course encourages students to read broadly in literatures of race, ethnicity, nation, migration and engage theories and ideas in conversation and debate across literatures to develop analytical strategies for understanding the complex landscape of ethnoracial and national inequality in the United States. By focusing analysis on cultural themes and specifically the case of American food culture, students are encouraged to question the utility and applicability of the abstract theories we encounter as well as the contributions and complications of each theory in relation to the others we discuss through a common language of cultural products, most specifically, the accessible discourse of food in American life. SOCI BC3924 Gendered Work and Organizations. 4.00 points. This course considers how gender shapes the action within different organizations, reflecting and reproducing broader social systems of inequality, identity, violence, and power in the United States. We will address current issues centered on the gendered nature of institutions and organizations, including the work/family debate, bodies at work, sexual harassment, service work, sex work, and sexual violence to illuminate the mechanisms by which systems of gender inequality shape the meanings and practices of individuals and groups within and across organizations and institutions SOCI BC3925 Adv Topics Law # Society. 4.00 points. ment The course will focus on a single topic within US law-and-society scholarship: either the profession of lawyering or the criminalization of immigration. We will critically examine existing research, and then create our own. With the support of their peers and instructor, students will design and complete substantial independent research projects. Limited to sociology majors with senior standing (except in exceptional circumstances), and having taken SOCI UN3217 Law and Society is strongly preferred. Fulfills the Research Paper Option for the senior requirement in sociology at Barnard SOCI BC3927 ADV TPCS IMMIGRATN INEQUAL I. 4.00 points. Examines processes of immigrant incorporation in the U.S. and other advanced democracies, with a focus on how immigration intersects with categorical inequalities (such as citizenship, social class, race, ethnicity, gender, and religion) in major institutional realms. Under instructor's supervision, students conduct a substantial research project related to course themes
SOCI 3928001/00026 W 4:10pm - 6:00pm Debra Minkoff 4.00 7/15
912 Milstein Center SOCI BC3930 ADVANCED TOPICS RACE # ETHNICITY. 4.00 points. Discusses theories of race and ethnicity, distinctions between prejudice, discrimination, and racism, and the intersectionality paradigm. Under instructors guidance students design a research proposal, conduct their own fieldwork and write a research paper on a sociological question relating to race and/or ethnicity Fall 2025: SOCI BC3930 Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enro
SOCI 3930001/00328 W 2:10pm - 4:00pm Mignon Moore 4.00 8/15
113 Milstein Center SOCI BC3931 Seminar for Internships in Social Justice and Human Rights. 4 points. or human rights during This class is intended to complement and enhance the internship experience for students working in internships that relate to social justice and human rights during the Spring 2016 semester. This course will meet bi-weekly to provide an academic framing of the issues that students are working on and to provide an opportunity for students to analyze their internship experience. SOCI BC3932 Climate Change, Global Migration, and Human Rights in the Anthropocene. 4 points. While the existence of processes of anthropogenic climate change is well established, predictions regarding the future consequences of these processes are far less certain. In no area is the uncertainty regarding near and long term effects as pronounced as in the question of how climate change will affect global migration. This course will address the issue of climate migration in four ways. First, the course will examine the theoretical and empirical literatures that have elucidated the nature of international migration in general. Second, the course will consider the phenomena of anthropogenic climate change as it relates to migration. Third, the course will consider how human rights and other legal regimes do or do not address the humanitarian issues created by anthropogenic climate change. Fourth, the course will synthesize these topics by considering how migration and climate change has arisen as a humanitarian, political, and economic issue in the Pacific. Human Rights elective. SOCI BC3933 SOCIOLOGY OF THE BODY. 4.00 points. This seminar examines the ways in which the body is discursively constituted, and itself serves as the substratum for social life. Key questions include: How are distinctions made between normal and pathological bodies, and between the psychic and somatic realms? How do historical forces shape bodily experience? How do bodies that are racialized, gendered, and classed offer resistance to social categorization? Barnard College Catalogue 2025-2026 607 SOCI BC3934 Global Activism. 4.00 points. This seminar will investigate efforts to coordinate, justify, and understand global activism through lenses of internationalism, solidarity, and universal human rights. We will also study transformations in the global institutional landscape – comprising international finance, supranational unions, and non-governmental organizations – which is itself the contradictory outcome of prior cycles of contestation. We will survey historical precedents, analyze contemporary manifestations, and speculate on the future prospects of global activism. Students will explore cases and concepts by reading llment scholarly literature and by considering the political practices, texts, and media created by movements themselves Spring 2026: SOCI BC3934 Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
Students must have an internship related to social justice
SOCI 3943001/00697 T 4:10pm - 6:00pm Angela Simms 4.00 6/16
Ll001 Milstein Center SOCI UN3944 Work, Life, Time and Space: From the Factory to the Gig Economy. 4 points. This 4-credit class will explore experiences and perspectives of work, life, and the often blurred boundary between them. We will focus on how work is situated in, and shaped through, space and time. We will begin with a set of theoretical and historical texts, and then turn to case studies of work and life. The goal is to understand and make sense of how work, and its relationship to home, has evolved historically and how it is experienced today. The theories of space, time, and work which we begin with provide frameworks for making sense of the varied cases we will explore. The course as a whole will offer a lens for analyzing the world of work, along with the relationship between work and the rest of our lives. It may serve a springboard for you to tackle such questions as: What is the relationship between meaning and money, work time and leisure time? (Or, will I work to live or live to work?) How do historical and relatively fixed work temporalities and geographies compare to new structures of work? (or, what is my Uber driver’s life like, and why is it so different from my grandfather’s experience as a mail carrier?) What do changing structures of work mean for our future, in and beyond work? (or, will robots take all of our jobs? And if so, what should we do about it?) SOCI BC3946 GLOBAL HEALTH, POLITICS, AND SOCIETY. 4.00 points. What is global health? Where do global health disease priorities come from, and how do the ways that we understand disease shape how we respond to it? What happens when good ideas and good intentions go wrong? This course critically examines the politics of global health and its impact on local institutions and people. Drawing on social science research, the course will address three main themes: 1) how global health priorities are defined and constructed, 2) how our understandings of disease influence our response to that disease, and 3) how efforts to respond to disease intersect with people on the ground, sometimes in unexpected ways. We will examine the global health industry from the vantage point of different institutions and lment actors – international organizations, governments, local healthcare institutions, healthcare workers, and people living with or at risk of various illnesses like HIV/AIDS, malaria, cancer, and Ebola. A primary goal of this course is to help you to develop skills in critical thinking in relation to global health issues and their impact on society. Students will demonstrate their knowledge through individual writing, class discussion, presentations, and a final research project Fall 2025: SOCI BC3946 Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
113 Milstein Center SOCI BC3947 Black Education. 4.00 points. This class will examine the development of education for African Americans in the United States. Chattel slavery and its afterlives are marked by questions, debates, and experiments not simply in schooling for Black people, but how to use education for the practice of freedom. Through examining this development, students will learn how the experience of Black people in schools complicates static notions about public vs private schools, demands for school desegregation, and the ongoing role of (mostly) white philanthropy in shaping the development of education for Black youth in the US and around the world Spring 2026: SOCI BC3947 Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
SOCI 3956001/00331 M 2:10pm - 4:00pm Randa Serhan 4.00 37/35
501 Diana Center SOCI BC3959 How Race Gets Under Our Skin: The Sociology of Race, Health, and Biomedicine. 4.00 points. One of the glaring forms of inequalities that persists today is the race-based gap in access to health care, quality of care, and health outcomes. This course examines how institutionalized racism and the structure of health care contributes to the neglect and sometimes abuse of racial and ethnic minorities. Quite literally, how does race affect one’s life chances? This course covers a wide range of topics related to race and health, including: racial inequalities in health outcomes, biases in medical institutions, immigration status and health, racial profiling in medicine, and race in the genomic era Spring 2026: SOCI BC3959 Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollm
SOCI 4193001/13120 T 10:10am - 12:00pm Adam Reich 3 13/20
509 Knox Hall Barnard College Catalogue 2025-2026 PUBH GU4200 Environment, Health, and Justice: Concepts and Practice. 3.00 points. Please note: this class was designed as part of the Special Concentration in Public Health. It is open to undergraduates, as well as students in Public Health, and will be taught on the Morningside campus. This course introduces key concepts on environmental health sciences and environmental justice and their application to address environmental health disparities affecting communities in New York City, across the United States and globally. The course will present theory and methods needed to characterize, understand and intervene on environmental health problems with a focus on methods that are particularly appropriate for environmental justice research and interventions. We will describe environmental health disciplines such as exposure sciences, environmental epidemiology, environmental biosciences and toxicology, as well as methods to assess expected environmental health impacts Fall 2025: PUBH GU4200 Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor
SOCI UN3974 SOCI OF SCHOOLS,TEACH,LEARNING Requirement C - Pedagogical Elective Select one of the following: EDUC BC3050 SCIENCE IN THE CITY EDUC BC3052 MATH # THE CITY EDUC BC3055 ARTS AND HUMANITIES IN THE CITY:CRITICAL EDUC BC3058 SCIENCE # ENGINEERING IN THE CITY EDUC BC3059 Computer Science in the City: Content #
