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Courses at Lincoln Center
SOCIOLOGY & ANTHROPOLOGY
at Fordham College Lincoln Center
Fall 2006 Course Listings
Anthropology
Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
This course will introduce students to the exciting field of anthropology, which offers a unique and useful outlook on human societies and cultures. The course provides and overview of the basic concepts, methods, findings, and applications of the field. Through a number of ethnographic case studies, students will learn about diverse forms of human behavior, social organization, and belief systems around the world. The course will also introduce students to the major economic, political, and social forces that shape, change, divide, and connect societies and cultures.
ANLG-1100-001 Winegar TF 10:00 am - 11:15 am
ANLG-1100-002 Staff MR 2:30 pm - 3:45 pm
ANEG-1100-L01 Staff W 6:00 pm - 8:45 pm
Male and Female in Society
This course examines the cultural construction of gender across cultures, with an emphasis on the diversity of gender roles, gender stratification, and gender identity. Using a variety of ethnographic case studies from around the world (including the U.S.), we will discuss the different relationships between gender and: the body, kinship systems, economics, political formations, religion, race and class, domestic roles, and constructions of masculinity, femininity, and third sex identities.
ANEG-2886-L01 Winegar M 6:00 pm - 8:45 pm
Peoples of the Mideast
This course examines the major aspects of social life in the Middle East from an anthropological perspective. Selected topics to be investigated include: kinship, social stratification, urbanization, nationalism, labor migration, refugees, war, gender, religious practice, popular culture, and neoliberalism. Emphasis will be placed on understanding the connections between cultural practices and political, economic, and social power.
ANLG-3193-001 Winegar TF 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm
Anthropology of Cities
This course explores the everyday life of cities in a range of international contexts. We will investigate the formation of urban neighborhoods, urban ties based on ethnicity and religious beliefs, multilingualism, and changing notions of the city due to globalization.
ANLU-2620-001 Staff MR 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm
Media and Religion
This course explores the relationship between religious ideologies and media practices in world cultures. We will study how various forms of mediation - including the literary and artistic genres, mass media technology, and the body itself - influence the ways the cultural identity, social solidarity, and religious authority are expressed and legitimated in everyday life. The case studies are varied and we will be reading across disciplines, with an emphasis on ethnographic methods and qualitative reasoning.
ANLU-3170-001 Staff T 6:00 pm - 8:45 pm
Sociology
Introduction to Sociology
An introduction to sociology with a focus on its nature as a scientific discipline. The analysis of society through the use of sociological theories, concepts, and methods. This course serves as a prerequisite to all other sociology courses and seeks to stimulate students to continue to deepen their understanding of societies and social processes.
SOLU-1100-001 Wilson MR 8:30 am - 9:45 am
SOLU-1100-002 Rodriguez MW 11:30 am - 12:45 pm
SOLF-1100-003 Bata MR 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm
SOLU-1100-004 Staff TF 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm
Research Methods
Students are introduced to the fundamentals of research. We will examine the major methodological approaches in the field and discuss the methodological and ethical issues that arise with each. Students gain hands-on experience in writing a literature review, specifying a research question, developing hypotheses, and conducting their own research.
SSLU-2650-001 Cooper TF 11:30 am - 12:45 pm
Sociological Theory
This course is an introduction to some of the classical thinkers who, in examining the social issues that arose from various facets of modernization, helped establish sociology as a distinctive discipline. This course will address the historical context of these intellectual developments, the content of different theoretical statements, and the processes that link social, economic, and political transformations to intellectual change. Each student will be expected to learn to read original texts of social theory, to identify the primary theoretical assumptions and the logic of causal arguments, and to assess those arguments at both a theoretical and empirical level.
SOLU-2800-001 Bata MR 2:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Criminal Justice Theory
SOLU 4901-001 Wilson MR 10:00 am - 11:15 am
Global Inequalities
An examination of stratification and inequality in four regions of the world - Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas - with a focus on global economic trends, ethnic conflict, and the links between race, class, gender, and the health of populations around the world. Special attention will be given to current events and foreign and international policy.
SOEG-3043-001 Bata T 6:00 pm - 8:45 pm
Youth Culture
This course traces the growth of distinctive youth culture in American life and imagination since World War II. Substantial attention is devoted to the trials and tribulations youths face as they “come of age”, the different social issues that affect them, their experiences in the American high school, and different teen subcultures.
SOLU-2450-001 Cooper TF 2:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Research Seminar
This seminar will focus on student research projects. Students will be expected to design and carry out a semester-long research project in the area of their choice. This is an interactive seminar stressing hands-on experience. Skills in topic selection, research design, and theory construction are emphasized. This project may be conducted in relation to an internship experience.
SOLU-4933-001 Rodriguez MW 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm
Internship Seminar: Criminal Justice, Law, and Social Work
SOEU-4901-L01 Wilson W 6:00 pm - 8:45 pm
Gender, Race, and Class
This course examines the relationship between gender, race, and class as overlapping dimensions of social experience in the United States. Drawing on a variety of sources, including theoretical, ethnographic, and literary writings, each of these dimensions is considered as part of a complex approach to social problems.
SOEU-3405-L01 Cooper R 6:00 pm - 8:45 pm
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Fordham University at Lincoln Center
Lowenstein 916
113 W. 60th Street
New York, NY 10023
Phone: (212) 636-6391
FAX: (212) 636-7153
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