Society Culture and Thought

Senior Seminar in Society, Culture, and Thought — SCT4750.02, section 2

Instructor: David Anderegg

Credits: 4

This advanced research seminar offers students the opportunity to conduct culminating work in Society, Culture and Thought (SCT) in the form of an independent research project. For most students, this will be a one-semester project. For other students, this will be the first half of a year-long project that involves fieldwork, archival research, and/or the collection of data.

Society Culture and Thought

Senior Seminar in Society, Culture, and Thought — SCT4750.01 (section 1)

Instructor: Tom Leddy-Cecere

Credits: 4

This advanced research seminar offers students the opportunity to conduct culminating work in Society, Culture and Thought (SCT) in the form of an independent research project. For most students, this will be a one-semester project. For other students, this will be the first half of a year-long project that involves fieldwork, archival research, and/or the collection of data.

Society Culture and Thought

Senior Seminar in Society, Culture, and Thought — SCT4750.02, section 2

Instructor: Eileen Scully

Credits: 2

Students undertaking culminating work in Society, Culture, and Thought (SCT) complete individual research projects. The process generally begins with students presenting ideas and proposals in their sixth-term Plan Meetings. To support these projects, SCT faculty offer a combined research seminar (2 credits) and various specialized group tutorials (2 credits). These are co

Society Culture and Thought

Senior Seminar in Society, Culture, and Thought — SCT4750.01, section 1

Instructor: Eileen Scully

Credits: 4

Society Culture and Thought

Senior Seminar in Society, Culture, and Thought — SCT4750.01, section 1

Instructor: Eileen Scully

Credits: 2

Students undertaking culminating work in Society, Culture, and Thought (SCT) complete individual research projects. The process generally begins with students presenting ideas and proposals in their sixth-term Plan Meetings. To support these projects, SCT faculty offer a combined research seminar (2 credits) and various specialized group tutorials (2 credits). These are co

Society Culture and Thought

Senior Seminar in Society, Culture, and Thought and CAPA — SCT4750.04; section 4

Instructor: David Bond

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 4

This advanced research seminar offers students the opportunity to conduct advanced work in social science and public action in the form of an independent research project. For some students, this will be the first half of a year-long thesis that involves field work and/or the collection of data. For others, this will be a one-semester long project. For all students, however,

CAPA Society Culture and Thought

Senior Seminar in Society, Culture, and Thought II — SCT4751.02; section 2

Instructor: Miroslava Prazak

Credits: 4

This research seminar offers students the opportunity to conduct advanced work in social science in the form of an independent research project. For some students, this will be the first half of a year-long thesis that involves field work and/or the collection of data. For others, this will be a one-semester long project. For all students, however, the process in

Society Culture and Thought

Senior Seminar in Society, Culture, and Thought II — SCT4751.01

Instructor: Rotimi Suberu

Credits: 4

This advanced research seminar offers students the opportunity to continue their culminating work in SCT in the form of an independent research project. For some students, this will be the second half of a year-long thesis; for others, this will be a one-semester project. Writing will take place throughout term. Students will receive feedback from the instructor, a second

Society Culture and Thought

Senior Seminar in Society, Culture, and Thought II — SCT4751.01; section 1

Instructor: Noah Coburn

Credits: 4

This is the second half of the SCT senior seminar, designed as a venue for students to complete their advanced work. For most students, this seminar will focus on analyzing data collected for their senior work during the first term or during Field Work Term and using that analysis to complete their senior projects. Aside from a few shared readings, the bulk of what individuals

Society Culture and Thought

Senior Seminar in Society, Culture, and Thought II — SCT4751.01

Instructor: Carol Pal

Credits: 4

This advanced research seminar offers students the opportunity to continue their culminating work in SCT in the form of an independent research project. For some students, this will be the second half of a year-long thesis; for others, this will be a one-semester project. Writing will take place throughout term. Students will receive feedback from the instructor, a second

Society Culture and Thought

Senior Seminar in Society, Culture, and Thought II — SCT4751.01; section 1

Instructor: Carol Pal

Credits: 4

This research seminar offers students the opportunity to conduct advanced work in social science in the form of an independent research project. For some students, this will be the first half of a year-long thesis that involves field work and/or the collection of data. For others, this will be a one-semester long project. For all students, however, the process in

Society Culture and Thought

Sets and Structures — MAT2121.01

Instructor: Andrew McIntyre

Days & Time: MO,TH 1:40pm-3:30pm

Credits: 4

In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, mathematics underwent a vast expansion, into new, exciting, and increasingly counter-intuitive realms. The subject risked mystification and mutual incomprehensibility between experts in different sub-fields. In the first part of the twentieth century, a group of French mathematicians, under the pseudonym Bourbaki, undertook an

Mathematics Computer Science Philosophy

Show and Tell: Visual Ethnography for Understanding the World Around Us — ANT2211.01

Instructor: Steve Moog

Credits: 4

Society Culture and Thought

Social and Emotional Learning — PSY2386.01

Instructor: Emily Waterman

Credits: 2

The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the field of social and emotional learning (SEL). We will cover relevant SEL frameworks, particularly the CASEL framework. We will review research on the association between social and emotional learning constructs and short- and long-term outcomes. We will then explore the effectiveness of evidence-based social and

Society Culture and Thought

Social Capital for Regenerative Communities — APA2303.01

Instructor: Tatiana Abatemarco Susan Sgorbati

Credits: 2

Social capital expands the measure of value to social support and connectedness, which are externalized by the neoclassical economic model. Regenerative agriculture is the movement to create agricultural systems that build soil biodiversity and sequester carbon dioxide. This class will explore the possibility for social capital as a means to ensure that regenerative agriculture

CAPA Environment Society Culture and Thought

Social Dynamics of Inclusion — SCT2134.01

Instructor: Delia Saenz

Credits: 1

This course will examine social psychological approaches to promoting inclusivity. Content will include review of basic psychological processes that contribute to, and maintain bias in contemporary society; and on methods that can promote collaboration across difference. Topics will include: confirmation bias, tokenism, intergroup dynamics, social justice, and

Society Culture and Thought

Social Dynamics of Inclusion — SCT2134.02

Instructor: Delia Saenz

Credits: 1

This course will examine social psychological approaches to promoting inclusivity. Content will focus on contextual factors that contribute to, and maintain bias in contemporary society, and on methods that can promote collaboration across difference. Topics will include: power, intersectionality, micro-aggression, intergroup dynamics, social justice,

Society Culture and Thought

Social Dynamics of Inclusion — SCT2134.01

Instructor: Delia Saenz

Credits: 1

This course will examine social psychological approaches to promoting inclusivity. Content will focus on contextual factors that contribute to, and maintain bias in contemporary society, and on methods that can promote collaboration across difference. Topics will include: power, intersectionality, micro-aggression, intergroup dynamics, social justice, intergroup dialogue, and

Society Culture and Thought

Social Inquiry in an Age of Upheaval — SCT2143.01

Instructor: David Bond

Credits: 2

For quite some time, social research aspired to access the bedrock of social existence, the underlying order or logic upon which all else rested. Recent events suggest the emergence of a very different social world, one no longer anchored but caught in rising currents of disorder (many of them, very much of our own making). While the storms of economic inequality and ecological

Society Culture and Thought

Social Movements in Latin America — ANT2111.01

Instructor: Eileen Scully

Credits: 4

What circumstances prompt people to disrupt their daily lives, with the goal of bringing about social change? Through literature, journalistic accounts and ethnographies of social movements, this course will explore the contexts in which social movements arise, the strategies they use and the issues they address, throughout Latin America. We will explore how the shared

Society Culture and Thought

Social Semiotics of Contemporary Literature — LIT2561.01

Instructor: An Duplan

Credits: 4

Writers don’t just tell stories. They live them. In Familiar Stranger: A Life between Two Islands, Stuart Hall describes his upbringing in 1930’s Jamaica, then a British colony. Eventually, Hall–– who is credited with being one of the founding figures of the field of Cultural Studies––made his way to the UK, where he went on to publish a number of seminal texts. Without a doubt

Literature Society Culture and Thought

Social Stratification — SOC2207.01) (cancelled

Instructor: Debbie Warnock

Credits: 4

How is American society stratified on the basis of race and social class? What are the social categories of race and class and how are these defined and reified through institutional structures? What are the consequences of inequality for a democratic society? Through examinations of classical and contemporary sociological texts, we will identify and interrogate patterns of

Society Culture and Thought

Sociological Imagination — SOC2204.01

Instructor: Debbie Warnock

Credits: 4

C. Wright Mills describes the sociological imagination as a “quality of mind” that enables one to view the relations between “history and biography” within society. The core work of sociology is to identify ways in which one’s own seemingly unique “personal troubles” are in fact connected to larger “public issues.” In this course students will work on developing and refining

Society Culture and Thought

Sociology of Education — SOC2205.01) (cancelled

Instructor: Debbie Warnock

Credits: 4

What is the purpose of schooling in modern society? Does everyone have access to equal educational opportunities? How do experiences of education vary by race, class, and gender? What role does education policy play in maintaining or reducing social inequalities? In this course, we will employ sociological theories and research to explore current issues, debates, and policies

Society Culture and Thought

Sociology of Education — SOC2205.01

Instructor: Debbie Warnock

Credits: 4

What is the purpose of schooling in modern society? Does everyone have access to equal educational opportunities? How do experiences of education vary by race, class, and gender? What role does education policy play in maintaining or reducing social inequalities? How has and how might education policy change under the leadership of Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos? In this

CAPA Sociology