Sociology and Anthropology

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Sociology and Anthropology

Associate Professor Underhill (Chair); Professors Frank, Wood; Assistant Professors Amboard, Hung; University Fellow Buchanan; Lecturer Meagher

Sociology is the study of society, including the complex relationships between individuals, social institutions, culture, and social structure. The major is designed to equip students with a sociological perspective with which they may study people in society. Courses in sociology provide students with the theoretical and investigative tools necessary to examine a wide variety of social issues.           

Anthropology is a diverse and comprehensive discipline that investigates the cultural life of human beings in all parts of the world. The major provides students not only with an appreciation for the varieties of human experience, but also, and more importantly, with a toolkit for documenting and understanding other people’s ways of life.             

Students majoring in either Sociology or Anthropology are prepared for a wide array of careers in Social Work, Criminal Justice, non-profit agencies, Journalism, Business and Government, as well as for graduate study in such fields as Law, Criminology, and Social Work, in addition to Sociology and Anthropology.

Sociology and Anthropology

Programs

• •  Anthropology
• •  Anthropology with Teacher Licensure
• •  Anthropology Minor
• •  Sociology
• •  Sociology with Teacher Licensure
• •  Sociology Minor

Courses

• ANTH 100 - Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (4)
• ANTH 145 - Sensing Religion: Body, Desire, and Emotion (RELS 145) (4)
• ANTH 225 - Social and Cultural Inquiry (SOC 225) (4)
• ANTH 305 - Internship in Sociology and Anthropology (SOC 305) (4)
• ANTH 322 - World Archaeology and Culture (ARTH 322) (4)
• ANTH 323 - Storied Anthropology (4)
• ANTH 325 - Culture and Mind (4)
• ANTH 336 - Ethnographic Methods (4)
• ANTH 339 - Intersections of Gender in the Americas (4)
• ANTH 340 - Anthropology of Bees (4)
• ANTH 346 - Medical Anthropology (4)
• ANTH 350 - Body, Disability and Culture (4)
• ANTH 357 - Disrupted Lives: The Anthropology of Social Suffering (4)
• ANTH 361 - Writing Gender (4)
• ANTH 365 - Death and Dying (4)
• ANTH 380 - Zen Anthropology (4)
• ANTH 390 - Nomadism (4)
• ANTH 464 - Senior Seminar in Anthropology (4)
• ANTH 499 - Undergraduate Research in Anthropology (1-4)

• ANTH 171-6 - Special Topics in Anthropology (1-6)
• ANTH 271-6 - Special Topics in Anthropology (1-6)
• ANTH 371-6 - Special Topics in Anthropology (1-6)
• ANTH 471-6 - Special Topics in Anthropology (1-6)

• SOC 100 - Introduction to Sociology (4)
• SOC 200 - Criminology (4)
• SOC 220 - Juvenile Delinquency (4)
• SOC 225 - Social and Cultural Inquiry (ANTH 225) (4)
• SOC 302 - Sociology of Religion (RELS 302) (4)
• SOC 305 - Internship in Sociology and Anthropology (ANTH 305) (4)
• SOC 312 - Society, Culture and Poverty (4)
• SOC 320 - Sociology of Race (4)
• SOC 330 - Sociology of Families (4)
• SOC 338 - Social Research Methods (4)
• SOC 352 - Social Movements and Democracy (4)
• SOC 357 - Development and Social Change in Latin America (4)
• SOC 362 - Sociology of Health and Illness (4)
• SOC 368 - Sociology of Gender (4)
• SOC 380 - Feminist Theory (WGSS 365) (4)
• SOC 387 - Gender, Globalization, and Development (4)
• SOC 390 - Queer Sociology (4)
• SOC 395 - Class, Power, and Inequality (4)
• SOC 405 - Sociology Internship Project (4)
• SOC 410 - Sociology through Film (4)
• SOC 464 - Senior Seminar in Sociology (4)
• SOC 480 - Sociology of Law (4)
• SOC 499 - Undergraduate Research in Sociology (1-4)

• SOC 171-6 - Special Topics in Sociology (1-6)
• SOC 271-6 - Special Topics in Sociology (1-6)
• SOC 371-6 - Special Topics in Sociology (1-6)
• SOC 471-6 - Special Topics in Sociology (1-6)

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