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Department of Sociology and Anthropology

Concentration

Concentration in Sociology and Anthropology

Concentration Adviser: Paul Grebinger

This concentration in sociology and anthropology emphasizes the interrelation between society and culture in different parts of the world. Students are free to explore how people create and experience their social world by selecting courses from a wide range of topics focused on issues such as cultural differences and ethnocentrism, families and kinship, ethnicity and racism, class and inequality, immigration, women, gender, and sexuality, health and bodies, urban life and cities, film and mass media, religion, technology and work, globalization, and social and cultural change.

Prerequisite–Choose one of the following:
0515-210   Foundations of Sociology (or equivalent)
0510-210   Cultural Anthropology (or equivalent)

Choose three of the following courses:
0510-440   Cultures in Globalization
0510-442   Cultures of Latin America
0510-443   Immigrants in the U.S.
0510-444   Social Movements in the Global Economy
0510-445   Global Cities
0510-446   Native North Americans
0510-447   Anthropology of Mass Media
0510-448   Native Americans in Film
0510-449   Sustainable Development
0510-450   Cultural Resource Management and Historic Preservation
0510-451   Gender and Sexuality
0510-452   Bodies and Culture
0510-454   Visual Anthropology
0510-457   Divided Europe
0510-459  Cultural Images of War and Terror
0510-483   Anthropology of Religion
0510-484   Islamic Culture/Middle East
0510-502   Archaeology and the Human Past
0510-506   Great Discoveries in Archaeology
0510-507   Archaeological Science
0510-508   The Archaeology of Cities
0515-406   Qualitative Methods
0515-413   Urban Planning and Policy
0515-441   The Changing Family
0515-442   Urban Experience
0515-443   Sociology of Work
0515-444   Social Change
0515-446   Sociology of Health
0515-447   Women, Work, and Culture
0515-448   Minority Group Relations
0515-449   Population and Society
0515-451   Transfer of Technology and Globalization
0515-453  Global Exiles of War and Terror
0515-482   African-American Culture
0515-483   Hispanic-American Culture
0515-485   Diversity in the City
0515-506   Social Inequality
0515-507   Complex Organizations
0515-509   Social Policy
0515-515   Social Policy and Aging
0515-524   Applied Sociology
0515-529   Deaf Culture in America
0515-569   Human Sexuality