Sociology Department Courses Focusing on Immigration or Containing Immigration-Related Content
Graduate
226A Methods of Demographic Analysis (4) S. Introduces basic demographic methods used in social science and public health research. Topics include sources and limitations of demographic data; components of population growth; measures of nuptiality, fertility, mortality, migration, population mobility and projection methods; and demographic models. Prerequisite: graduate standing or consent of instructor.
230A Race and Ethnicity (4). An examination of central questions and issues in the field of race and ethnicity through a critical analysis and discussion of the principal theoretical perspectives and paradigms that have framed much of the scholarship in the area. Prerequisites: graduate standing, consent of instructor. Same as Social Science 253V.
239 Special Topics: Social Inequality: Immigrant America (4). Focuses on theories of migration and the contexts of reception immigrants experience in host societies. Prerequisites: graduate standing, consent of instructor. May be repeated for credit as topics vary.
239 Special Topics: Social Inequality: Immigrant Group Incorporation (4). Focuses on conceptualizations of incorporation, theories of immigrant group incorporation, and research results about incorporation. Prerequisites: graduate standing, consent of instructor. May be repeated for credit as topics vary.
239 Special Topics: Social Inequality: Mexican Migration and U.S./Mexico Relations (4). Prerequisites: graduate standing, consent of instructor. May be repeated for credit as topics vary.
239 Special Topics: Social Inequality: Race, Ethnicity, and Opportunity (4). Focuses on the intersection of immigration and race/ethnicity in the United States and other countries around the world. Prerequisites: graduate standing, consent of instructor. May be repeated for credit as topics vary.
262A Population (4). Introduces the interrelationships between population and social organization. Considers measurement and explanation of historical and contemporary trends in birth rates, death rates, migration, international migration, and marriage and divorce. Case material is drawn primarily from the U.S. and other industrialized nations. Prerequisite: graduate standing or consent of instructor. Same as Social Sciences 253F and Environmental Analysis and Design E222.
269 Special Topics: Social Demography: Immigration and Population (2 to 4). Focuses on the demographic aspects on international migration and on the implications of immigration for population change and policy. Prerequisite: graduate standing or consent of instructor. May be repeated for credit as topics vary.
Undergraduate
2 International Sociology (4). Introduces international sociology by examining international social structures and processes. Attention to international migration to and from various countries around the world, and to theories and research about the determinants of international migration for both sending and receiving countries. (III, VII-B)
43 Urban Sociology (4). The nature, causes, and consequences of urbanization are examined along with its changing scale and complexity, demographic and ecological city growth patterns, the quality of life in urban areas, processes of decision-making in cities, and the bearing of sociological investigation on public policy concerns in contemporary urban society.
44 Populations (4). Demographic aspects of social/economic change. Considers the epidemiological transition to low mortality, the historical decline in Western family size, the baby boom, third-world family planning, changing marriage patterns, women's labor force participation, migration theories, and global aging. (VII-B)
63 Race and Ethnicity (4). Focuses on racial and ethnic relations in the United States and compares them with those found in other societies. Analyzes the conditions that favor either cooperation and integration or rivalry, tension, and conflict. Appraises strategies for reducing and resolving conflicts. (VII-A)
68A Immigration and the New Second Generation (4). Focusing on Asian, Latino, and Black immigrants, examines the generation's experience of straddling two cultures and growing up American. Covers topics such as assimilation, bilingualism, race relations, education, bicultural conflicts, interracial marriage, and multiracial identities. (VII-A)
146 States and Societies (4). Examines, over an extended historical period, the forces that drove the state into being, its nature and distinctive forms, and its variable and contingent relations with that other modern creation, "society."
147A Cities and Social Change (4). Focuses on comparative urban political economy and the way cities and urban process are linked to changes in the global system. Attempts to draw on a diverse interdisciplinary literature that includes sociology, geography, and urban planning. Prerequisite: upper-division standing and completion of lower-division writing requirement.
158B Work and Employment Relations (4). Sociological and economic theories of labor markets. Workers' job search methods, recruitment strategies used by employers, and their consequences. Structural changes in the labor market and the employment relationship. Models of discrimination and introduction to employment discrimination law.
167A Racial and Ethnic Relations in the United States (4). Examines central questions and issues in the field of race and ethnicity; the emergence, maintenance, and consequences of the ethnic and racial stratification system in the United States; the future of racial and ethnic relations; and relevant public policy issues. Prerequisite: satisfactory completion of the lower-division writing requirement. Same as Chicano/Latino Studies 148.
172F American Society (4). Seminar examines recent trends in U.S. institutions such as family, community, labor, economy, media, schools, religion, criminal justice, medicine, politics, popular culture. Special attention to race, immigration, childhood, aging. Cross-national comparisons.
175A Korean Society and Culture (4). Introductory background to the social and cultural forces that affect the lives of the Koreans, including those in the United States. Considers traditional values and contemporary issues within a historical framework. Same as Anthropology 163K and East Asian Languages and Literatures 130. (VII-B)
176 Social Policy (4). Comparison of theoretical perspectives on the role of the state in contemporary society and an examination of the gender, racial-ethnic, and class dimensions of social policy. Particular focus on social welfare, labor, health policies, and policies on sexual violence.