# Teaching Search Within Results Search Within Results search ## 15 results Show filters filter\_alt Sort by Date AscendingDate DescendingAlphabetical A-ZAlphabetical Z-A sort list grid\_view ## 15 results ### Spring, 2020 [### Sociology 321: Contemporary Studies of Race & Ethnicity Workshop ](/class/sociology-321-contemporary-studies-race-ethnicity-workshop) **Semester:** Spring | **Year offered:** 2020 The Contemporary Studies of Race & Ethnicity (CSRE) workshop's purpose is to provide a forum to disseminate knowledge and facilitate dialogue among graduate students, faculty, and visiting scholars working on or interested in research about contemporary studies related to... ### Spring, 2018 [### African & African American Studies 10: Introduction to African-American Studies ](/class/african-african-american-studies-10-introduction-african-american-studies) **Semester:** Spring | **Year offered:** 2018 With Prof. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. An exploration of some of the key texts and issues in African American Studies from a range of disciplinary perspectives. Members of the faculty deliver guest lectures in their own areas of specialization. ### Fall, 2018 [### African & African American Studies 150X: Race, Racism, and American Politics ](/class/african-african-american-studies-150x-race-racism-and-american-politics) **Semester:** Fall | **Year offered:** 2018 This course takes up the questions of whether, how much (if at all), and why racial group identity and racism influence American political discourse, behavior and policy-making regarding issues of importance to African American communities. The course will also consider the... ### Fall, 2017 [### Sociology 296A: Proseminar on Inequality & Social Policy I ](/class/sociology-296a-proseminar-inequality-social-policy-i) **Semester:** Fall | **Year offered:** 2017 The first doctoral seminar in the Inequality and Social Policy three-course sequence, this course considers the effects of policies and institutions in creating or reducing inequality in the U.S. and other advanced democracies, we well as the reciprocal effects of inequality... ### Spring, 2016 [### African & African American Studies 11: Introduction to African Studies ](/class/african-african-american-studies-11-introduction-african-studies) **Semester:** Spring | **Year offered:** 2016 This course introduces students to the general outlines of African archeology, history and geography, as well as key concepts in the study of African health, social life , economic situation, arts, and politics. Our aim is to give students a fundamental vocabulary and... [### Sociology 296B: Proseminar on Inequality and Social Policy II ](/class/sociology-296b-proseminar-inequality-and-social-policy-ii) **Semester:** Spring | **Year offered:** 2016 Deals with causes and possible cures for economic inequality, including skill differences, discrimination, immigration, household composition, residential segregation, and the welfare state. ### Fall, 2015 [### African & African American Studies 16: Sociology of the Black Community ](/class/african-african-american-studies-16-sociology-black-community) **Semester:** Fall | **Year offered:** 2015 This course examines issues of race, class, gender, and identity in the Afro-American community. Topics of special emphasis include the contemporary situation of the black family, class stratification and the conditions and prospects of the modern black middle class, black... ### Fall, 2014 [### Sociology 248: Race, Politics, and Social Inequality ](/class/sociology-248-race-politics-and-social-inequality) **Semester:** Fall | **Year offered:** 2014 Examines intersection of race, public will, and policy-making. Reviews theories of race-making and racial inequality, dynamics of public opinion, and effects of a racialized public sphere on social policy. Focuses on the welfare state, the criminal justice system, and the... ### Fall, 2013 [### Sociology 183: Race and Ethnic Relations ](/class/sociology-183-race-and-ethnic-relations) **Semester:** Fall | **Year offered:** 2013 Focuses on ethno-racial distinctions as they have played out in the US, particularly in the period from post-World War II to the present. The specific topics covered include the concept of race itself, whiteness and white identity, sociological theories of racial and ethnic... ### Fall, 2012 [### African & African American Studies 147: Racial Identity, Politics, and Public Policy ](/class/african-african-american-studies-147-racial-identity-politics-and-public-policy) **Semester:** Fall | **Year offered:** 2012 This course examines how race and perceived racial difference affect political discourse, mobilization, representation, and political outcomes. We will examine the fate of policies such as affirmative action and welfare reform, and the prospects for multiracial coalition... ### Fall, 2009 [### Sociology 98B: Race and Crime ](/class/sociology-98b-race-and-crime) **Semester:** Fall | **Year offered:** 2009 New research on how and why criminal justice policy in the US has such a powerfully differential negative impact on African American communities. ### Fall, 2008 [### African & African American Studies 146: Black America in Transition ](/class/african-african-american-studies-146-black-america-transition) **Semester:** Fall | **Year offered:** 2008 This course examines how changes in communities, the economy, and culture are remaking the African American experience. We will examine processes of neighborhood change and segregation as well as the impact of immigration on black communities. Gender dynamics will be a topic... - Previous page chevron\_left - [1](?page=0 "Current page") - [2](?page=1 "Go to page 2") - [ Next page chevron\_right ](?page=1 "Go to next page")