SOC classes that might interest you

Professor Marshall
SOC 396: CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM CRN: 58846
12:30 PM - 01:50 PM TR

This course takes an in-depth look at the different actors and
institutions that make up the criminal justice system. We will examine
how the police are organized, how police culture shapes the way they
perform their duties, and the complexity of police interrogations. We
will examine how prosecutors use their discretion and enter into plea
bargains. We will examine the way that law and science intersect in the
generation and interpretation of forensic evidence. We study the role of
juries in the criminal trial. We study the social impact of mass
incarceration in American society and politics, and we look at various
efforts to reform the death penalty. Through all these topics, we discuss
the complex ways that race influences and shapes decision-making and
discretion of actors in the criminal justice system.


SOC 160 -- Global Inequality and Social Change
Section NS1 -- Dr. Holtzclaw-Stone, TR 11-12:20
NW/or W Gen ED

Introduces sociological concepts of poverty, inequality, and social change within a global context. Themes explored include basic food security, poverty and hunger; population and resource distribution; foreign aid and development institutions; and social policies and movements for change. Course approach is historical and transnational, and typically includes case studies from Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the United States.




SOC 196 -- The HIV/AIDS Pandemic: Global and Local Perspectives
Professor Cindy Buckley; TR 11-12:20

The HIV/AIDS pandemic has drastically altered the global social, political, economic and demographic landscape. Delivering education concerning the virus, expanding prevention programs, monitoring the needs of countries and communities affected by HIV and AIDS, making treatment accessible and providing care for individuals infected with HIV or living with AIDS continues to challenge the capacities of families, communities, countries and international organizations. In this course we examine the pandemic as both a global and local phenomenon. Our discussions will be theoretically framed within the central concepts of globalization, social inequality, stigma and economic development. While based with a socio-demographic tradition, this course draws on literatures from many disciplines to highlight the general contours, continuing debates, and ethical challenges related to the pandemic.