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Undergraduate Course Offerings Note: Future course offerings and courses offered on a periodic basis are listed at http://www.bc.edu/courses/. SC 001 Introductory Sociology (Fall/Spring: 3) Satisfies Social Sciences Core Requirement Sociology majors are encouraged to take section SC 001.01, which presents a more comprehensive view of the topic. This course presents the basics of sociology. It conveys a sense of the history of sociology, how research is conducted, and various theoretical approaches to the field. Attention is given both to micro-level (interpersonal) and macro-level (organizational) behavior. Special topics emphasized include interaction in everyday life, sociology of the family and gender roles, education, race and ethnic relations, and sociology of work and occupations. One of the major goals of the course is to enable students to ground themselves and their families sociologically, by examining their own community and social class origins. David Karp Ritchie Lowry Department SC 003 Introductory Anthropology (Fall/Spring: 3) Satisfies Cultural Diversity Core Requirement Satisfies Social Sciences Core Requirement This course introduces students to the main themes, methods and intellectual traditions of cultural anthropology. We will explore concepts of culture, human origins, food procurement, marriage and the family, gender, political organization, social stratification and globalization. James Hamm The Department SC 008 Marriage and the Family (Fall: 3) Satisfies Social Sciences Core Requirement May be taken as part of the Womens Studies Minor. This course analyzes sociological theories and research on the family with particular attention to (1) the family and the broader society; (2) changes in gendered expectations and behavior; (3) comparisons of family life by gender, social class, and race; (4) the family and the life cycle; (5) contemporary alternatives to the good provider/cult of domesticity family common between 1830 and 1980; and (6) policy. Lynda Lytle Holmstrom SC 021 The Question of Consumer Society: Shop Til You Drop (Spring: 3) This course addresses long-standing debates about consumer society: How does advertising work? Are consumers manipulated by marketing? Why are consumer choices so important in the constitution of identity? How is consumption affecting the environment? How is consumer culture going global? Special attention will be paid to the ways in which consumer culture structures division by class, gender, and race. Readings by Adorno and Horkheimer, Galbraith, Friedan, Bourdieu, Vebleu, Baudrillard, Hooks, Bordo, and others. Juliet B. Schor SC 022 Sociology of Crime and Punishment (Fall/Spring: 3) Satisfies Social Sciences Core Requirement Students are introduced to the sociological perspective through the window of crime and punishment. We examine the historic search for the causes of crime, ranging from nineteenth century England and Italy to twentieth century America. We consider the sources, strengths, and weaknesses of each theory and the strategies for controlling it generated. The second half of the course focuses on patterns of criminal behavior: homicide, rape, property crime, family violence, corporate crime. For each, we will discuss what theory best explains it and what might be an appropriate strategy for controlling or eliminating it. Patricia Bergin Diane Vaughan SC 024 Gender and Society (Fall/Spring: 3) Satisfies Social Sciences Core Requirement This can be taken as part of the Womens Studies minor. This course explores the formation, experience and change of women and mens social lives in history. Its topics include (1) gendered differences in the organization of power, kinship, economic well-being, race, national identity, and ethnicity, religion, sexuality, and culture; (2) socialization into masculine and feminine social roles; (3) the impact of global economic and technological change on social constructions of gender; (4) gender, popular culture and the mass media; (5) gender equality and social justice. The Department SC 028 Love, Intimacy and Human Sexuality (Fall/Spring: 3) Satisfies Social Sciences Core Requirement May be taken as part of the Womens Studies Minor. This course draws on sociological and anthropological sources included in theories of identity formation, marriage and family, and gender behavior. The course emphasizes analysis of intimate relations how they are sought, sustained, and fail. The course is structured around case studies, both clinical and from fiction and film, with special focus on the phenomenon of romantic love. The Department SC 030 Deviance and Social Control (Fall/Spring: 3) Satisfies Social Sciences Core Requirement May be taken as part of the Womens Studies Minor. This course explores the social construction of boundaries between the normal and the so-called deviant. It examines the struggle between powerful forms of social control and what these exclude, silence, or marginalize. Of particular concern is the relationship between dominant forms of religious, legal, and medical social control and gendered, racialized and global economic structures of power. The course provides an in-depth historical analysis of theoretical perspectives used to explain, study and control deviance, as well as ethical-political inquiry into such matters as religious excess, crime, madness, corporate and governmental wrong-doing, and sexual subcultures that resist dominant social norms. Stephen J. Pfohl SC 038 Race, Class, and Gender (Fall: 3) Satisfies Social Sciences Core Requirement Offered Periodically Viewing race, class, gender, sexuality, and other identities as inseparable from discussions of inequality and power, this course will begin by discussing the social construction of these categories and how they are connected. We will then look at how these social identities shape and are also shaped by four general subject areas: (1) wealth and poverty, (2) education, (3) family, and (4) crime, law, and social policy. Although this course is separated into subject areas, we shall see that these areas greatly overlap and are mutually influenced by one other. Shawn McGuffey The Boston College Catalog 2005-2006 243 ARTS AND SCIENCES

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