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  • SOC 5200

    Teaching Sociology Workshop
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    Spring 2026

    This course is designed to help graduate students make the transition into the classroom by shadowing current teaching assistants in a range of settings. Students will be asked to come together periodically over the course of the semester to reflect on their experiences, as well as to participate in a series of workshops focusing on topics related to setting up a class, engaging students, and fostering equity and inclusion in the classroom.

  • SOC 7980

    Graduate Research Workshop
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    Spring 2026

    This class is designed to help graduate students write professional, sociological articles. Students will come in with (at a minimum) a solid literature review plus data collected and analyzed, and leave with a submission-ready manuscript. We will discuss each article section, present and critique work, consider audience, sharpen arguments and improve writing. Required of 3rd year students; open to others later in the program.

  • SOC 8031

    Sociology ProSeminar
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    Spring 2026

    The ProSeminar provides an introduction for first year graduate students to the discipline and profession of Sociology, as well as to the Sociology Department.

  • SOC 8040

    Sociological Issues
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    Spring 2026

    Studies contemporary issues effecting sociology as a science, as an academic discipline, and as a profession. Frequent guest lecturers.

  • SOC 8410

    Race & Ethnicity
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    3.71

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    Spring 2026

    Studies pivotal issues relating to race in contemporary American society from a theoretical and historical point of view.  These include such topics as the contested meaning of the term "race", the relationship between race and ethnicity, assimilation, the relationship between race and inequality, and crime.

  • SOC 8998

    Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Research
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    Spring 2026

    For master's research, taken before a thesis director has been selected.

  • SOC 8999

    Non-Topical Research
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    Spring 2026

    For master's thesis, taken under the supervision of a thesis director.

  • SOC 9010

    Directed Reading
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    Spring 2026

    Independent study with a faculty member. 

  • SOC 9510

    Advanced Topics in Culture
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    Spring 2026

    This course covers selected topics in the sociological study of culture.

  • SOC 9530

    Advanced Topics in Race, Ethnicity and Migration
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    Spring 2026

    This course covers selected topics in sociology of race, ethnicity, and migration.