Courses

Offerings respond to current policy debates, topics of emerging interest, availability of visiting scholars, and interest in non-traditional courses incorporating practitioner expertise, interest in particular disciplinary perspectives missing from core courses and electives, and interest in specific regions or countries.

The relationships between social contexts and wellbeing with a focus on disadvantaged populations. Students engage in a community service placement to complement academic learning.

Faculty and students from different disciplines act as an interdisciplinary team studying specific resource problems with ecological, economic, demographic and social dimensions. Techniques and methods are emphasized to show their value in integrating knowledge, defining policy and facilitating communication. Several sections with different emphasis offered each year.

Faculty and students from different disciplines act as an interdisciplinary team studying specific resource problems with ecological, economic, demographic and social dimensions. Techniques and methods are emphasized to show their value in integrating knowledge, defining policy and facilitating communication. Several sections with different emphasis offered each year.

Environment and resource management goals and issues.

Fostering sustainable management of ecosystem-based activities, for the competing and complementary ends of sustaining and enhancing human well-being and protecting biodiversity.

Dynamics of environmental issues across temporal and spatial scales using disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches to integrating sociological, cultural, and ecological perspectives.

Key water issues associated with international development: global water demand, scarcity, efficiency of use, water as a commodity, biophysical and policy aspects of water management, water and health, land use impact, water harvesting, improved irrigation, and pollution prevention. Credit will be granted for only one of SOIL 518 or RES 518.

Russian genre fiction and film (science fiction, fantasy and gothic).

Explores systems thinking in the context of sustainability and also re-examines the familiar three pillar model of sustainability - society, ecology, and economics - highlighting its uses and limitations.

Inequality, institutions, social structure and social change. Credit will be granted for only one of SOCI 102 or SOCI 100.

Major theories of consumer society, evaluating impacts of shopping on human and non-human environments and popular solutions to these impacts.

Global pandemics in relation to social inequality, social interaction and social institutions.

A critical examination of classical and contemporary theories and research evidence concerning ethnic and racial inequality at the societal and interpersonal levels.

The structure and culture of consuming and consumption.

Tendencies toward equality and inequality; manifestations of inequality (occupation, education, gender, ethnicity, income, power) and their consequences; caste and class features of major stratification systems; theories of social class; stratification profile of contemporary industrial societies.

Sociological approaches to the study of environmental conflicts, issues, movements, impact of changing technology, economic development on the environment.

Sociology approaches to global citizenship, including its contested nature and intellectual lineage.

The social and economic bases of political power. May include studies of the state and interstate relations, ideology and control, alienation and anomie, political movements and social revolutions, political violence and terrorism, and the political economy of world conflict.

Examines the role of schooling in modern society including links with inequality, knowledge production, socialization and the economy.

Current social topics in Chinese society; perspectives on gender, inequality, culture, and social relations.

An intensive examination of selected topics in Sociology. Consult the department for this year's offerings.

Integration of soil physics, chemistry, and biology in understanding essential soil processes.

Watershed evaluation, key aspects of hydrology, water quality, land use impacts on water resources and integration of multiple land use activities and their cumulative impacts.