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