54 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.
Offered Both Fall and Spring; Lecture hours:3The concepts and methods sociologists use to investigate human groups. Focuses on the study of social organization, its variety and development. Preference given to first and second year students. Juniors and seniors by permission only.
Offered Occasionally; Lecture hours:3Focuses on the sociological approach to social problems, studying existing problems like poverty and inequality plus new or changing problems such as war and terrorism.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Participant-observation, interviewing, and other field research methods. Students will devise and conduct their own ethnographic research projects in a local community. Not open to first-year students. Crosslisted as ANTH 201.
Offered Occasionally; Lecture hours:3Survey of major theoretical and methodological approaches in sociological social psychology with emphasis on real-word social interactions and relationships. Topics include learning and socialization, social interaction, stratification, development of self and the social construction of identity, deviance, health and illness, social attitudes and behaviors, emotions, relationships, aggression and conflict.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This course will introduce students to a range of social, political, and cultural thought from the right.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:3An introduction to various paradigms of social research with emphasis on the logic of social inquiry, research design and data collection. Requires two prior sociology courses and permission of the instructor.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3; RepeatableA course in sociological data analysis, using the General Social Survey and other data sets, promoting student research.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3A survey of major theories and theoretical traditions in sociology from roughly 1850 to 1920. The work of Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim, and Max Weber is often the centerpiece of the course.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This course introduces students to theory construction and development in sociology. We will explore how social theorists develop conceptual categories, societal taxonomies, and causal frameworks designed for explanation of phenomena in human behavior and social organization.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This course will examine how human society shapes and is shaped by our natural environment. We will explore the intersection between the environment and key social problems, such as social inequality, racism and climate change. We will also examine efforts to improve the environment from grassroots movements to advanced technology.
Offered Occasionally; Lecture hours:3An introduction to sociology of education, this course considers the role of schools and education in society. Topics covered include various sociological perspectives on schools, what students learn, and how educational systems interact with other political, economic, and cultural institutions.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:3Topics related to current events/issues in Sociology.
Offered Fall Semester Only; Lecture hours:3In this class we will uncover the many ways in which human societies are inextricable from the world’s oceans and address themes such as scientific uncertainty, environmental racism, immigration, colonialism and urban sustainability. Walruses, anchovies, artisanal fishers, coastal cities and factories will all lie at the center of weekly discussions. Crosslisted as ENST 237.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3An overview of law and the legal system from sociological, theoretical and methodological perspectives. This course focuses on the impact of social institutions on the social organization of law, the structure of the criminal and civil processing system and justice and inequality in the legal system.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3The course will provide students with a sociological analysis of various health/illness issues and the health services industry. Students will investigate how race, gender, socio-economic status and their intersections impact health disparities and inequalities.
Offered Occasionally; Lecture hours:3This course offers a critical examination of major social problems in the contemporary United States within the context of wider global issues.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Theories and research in criminal behavior and the societal reaction to criminality. Causes and consequences of crime, including public policy formulations.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3People’s mobilization capacity to fight for social change is a crucial dimension of the social world. However, few people actually ever participate in social movements. Why? In this course, we will study movements from across the globe to elucidate how movements form, what sustains them, and do they actually work?.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Examination of the evolutionary roots of religion; the role of religion in "world-construction," social solidarity and social change; the secularization thesis; civil religion; fundamentalisms, cults, other new religious movements; religious violence and terrorism. Special attention given to Christianity and Islam.
Offered Both Fall and Spring; Lecture hours:3Focusing on courtship, marriages, and families in the 21st century U.S., we explore how work and family life vary by gender, race, and social class.
Offered Alternating Fall Semester; Lecture hours:3Studies the concepts and social significance of race/ ethnicity and major race/ethnic groups within the United States. Emphasis on varying theoretical and methodological approaches to the sociological study of race/ethnicity.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3; RepeatableIntroduction to a sociological approach to politics. Exploration of classical debates in political sociology and key issues relevant for understanding the contemporary United States, including the politics of taxation, social assistance and market regulation, political discrimination and exclusion, militarism, and social movements.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This course explores the history of nationalism and how its profound legacies intersect with problems in the 21st century. We will typically investigate economic inequality and migration, human-driven climate change, resource and “vaccine nationalism,” war, and other forms of political extremism and violence committed “in the name of the nation.”.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This course examines the social construction and performance of gender in our daily lives. We consider what it means to live in a gendered society, from micro level issues of identity (the self) to the way macro level social institutions (society) create structures of gendered privilege and inequality.
Offered Alternating Spring Semester; Lecture hours:3Explore sociological theories and concepts through all five seasons of The Wire, David Simon’s critically-acclaimed show about life in Baltimore, MD. This course complicates traditional narratives about drugs, poverty, structural and interpersonal violence, deindustrialization, crime, street-level bureaucracies, local politics, media and knowledge towards a deeper understanding of today’s societal ills.
Offered Spring Semester Only; Lecture hours:3The study of violent social, political, and legal institutions: domestic violence, sexual coercion, vigilantism, political conflict; the production and control of criminal violence.
Offered Fall Semester Only; Lecture hours:3This course investigates the place of death in human nature and culture. We will look at death as a biological, social, and cultural fact for the human species. Funeral ritual and mourning will be studied in global and historical framework but with emphasis on the modern world.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This course investigates the realities of poverty through an intersectional lens. Topics include historical understandings of poverty; depictions of poverty in pop culture; the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on poverty in the U.S. and bringing attention to populations that often get left out of mainstream conversations about poverty.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3We study how policing has developed across the Americas and continues to shape everyday life. Students explore how the police and military industrial complex impacts communities and environments, and examine how peoples across the Americas are navigating, enduring and resisting these forms of state power. Crosslisted as CBST 259 and LAMS 259.
Offered Occasionally; Lecture hours:3An introduction to artistic work and its reception from evolutionary, social, and cultural perspectives. We will explore the reasons why humans make art, the forces that affect artistic works and careers, and the formation of artistic tastes.
Offered Spring Semester Only; Lecture hours:3Exploration of central aspects of American society and culture including national identity, class structure and stratification, ethnic and racial group coexistence and conflict, family structure, religious ideologies and immigration patterns.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Sociology of Food examines how social, cultural and political-economic forces shape food production, distribution and consumption. Key topics include food as a marker of identity (gender, class, race), the industrial food complex, food justice and the symbolic meanings of food.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This course uses the Alien franchise as a lens to examine real-world issues, including corporate exploitation, gender politics, reproductive rights, bioethics and AI. By analyzing the evolution of the series - including the prequels and sequels - students will apply sociological theory to examples of systemic inequality and develop a deeper understanding of humanity’s most pressing problems.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:3; RepeatableTopics will vary each semester.
Offered Fall Semester Only; Lecture hours:3Examination of the impact of the processes of global restructuring and the technological revolution on people, culture and society. This class will focus on Latin America and the Caribbean. Crosslisted as LAMS 311.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:Varies,Other:12; RepeatableEach student selects a project to be developed individually. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:Varies,Other:12; RepeatableEach student selects a project to be developed individually. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3A seminar on Western intellectual and cultural elites and their worldview.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:Varies,Other:12; RepeatableReadings developed around the interest of individual students. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:Varies,Other:12; RepeatableReadings developed around the interest of individual students. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor.
Offered Alternate Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This is a course on changing patterns in American courtship (dating), marriage, and family life from the 20th to the 21st century. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor. Crosslisted as WMST 328.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:3Substantive examination of particular topics/themes through the lens of cultural sociology.
Lecture hours:3This course is focused on the White and Black American experiences. America in Black and White will explore the historical and present day government policies, private business interests and personal stereotypes that have resulted in social, political and economic advantages provided to one group while actively disenfranchising another.
Topics course; Lecture hours:3Structure and process of legal institutions: police, courts, prisons, lawyers, juries, and extralegal mechanisms relevant to the legal system.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3What is whiteness? What is white privilege? What explains their durability in today’s world? In this seminar, we will read contemporary non-fiction books to understand 21st-century racial domination, power and privilege. You will leave this course better equipped with insight necessary to disrupt personal, institutional and worldwide systems of oppression.
Offered Occasionally; Lecture hours:3Explores the complexities of globalization, analyzing its benefits, challenges and diverse impacts. The course hones critical thinking, reading, writing and communication skills while addressing global political, economic, cultural and environmental issues. Students will engage with multiple perspectives to become informed participants in global discussions and problem-solving. Crosslisted as ECON 243.
Offered Occasionally; Lecture hours:3This seminar explores dynamic and controversial issues facing the American corrections system today. We will examine the historical context that shaped the current system, analyze its implications and consider ethical questions related to correctional practices. We will explore mass incarceration, the privatization of prisons, inequality and racial disparities, rehabilitation programs and health. Prerequisite: SOCI 100 or permission of the instructor.
Offered Occasionally; Lecture hours:3This course explores the intersection between the history and legacies of nationalism and several confounding problems in the 21st century. Such problems will typically include economic inequality and migration, human-driven climate change, resource and “vaccine nationalism,” and forms of political extremism and violence committed “in the name of the nation.”.
Offered Alternating Spring Semester,Topics course; Lecture hours:Varies; RepeatableIndependent investigation in the field; formulation of hypotheses, construction of measuring instruments, data collection, data analysis, and test of hypotheses. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor.
Offered Spring Semester Only; Lecture hours:3How is the progression of technology changing our society? How is it used to serve the interests of the powerful and impact politics? This course answers these questions and more as we delve into the current realities and potential futures of artificial intelligence, social media algorithms and surveillance technologies.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This is a course on major social, cultural and political conflicts and change in the US from roughly 1955-1975 and the long-term consequences for contemporary American life. Close examination of New Left, civil rights movement, student movement, feminist movement, Vietnam War and counterculture.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:3Focuses on selected topics of the discipline of sociology. Topics depend on professor and change with each offering. This culminating experience course is only open to senior sociology majors. Senior sociology minors and junior sociology majors by permission only.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:Varies,Other:9; RepeatableSenior thesis. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor.
Offered Occasionally; Lecture hours:3Poverty is a social condition defined by a lack of the necessary resources needed to maintain a minimum living standard. However, the definition of poverty is highly localized and culture-specific. In this seminar, we will investigate the causes, consequences and possible solutions to poverty in the U.S. and globally.
Source: Bucknell University's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 59
