SOC 496

Spring 2012 All Classes

All Classes

Advanced Special Topics

Credit: 3 hours.

No graduate credit. May be repeated if topics vary. Prerequisite: SOC 100 or six hours of anthropology, social geography, political science, or sociology.

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SOC 496 class schedule data for spring 2012
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
34468	Lecture-Discussion	AZ	12:30PM -2:20PM	M	338 Davenport Hall	Zerai, A	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/17/12-05/02/12 Section Info: Title: Maternal and Child Health in Southern Africa
57582	Lecture	BS	3:30PM -5:50PM	W	212 Davenport Hall	Sandefur, R	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/17/12-05/02/12 Section Info: Topic: Access to Justice > This course explores contemporary issues related to the ability of the public to access "justice." Topics include perspectives on what justice is; barriers to obtaining justice through the formal legal system; potential solutions to these barriers. These solutions include the legal frameworks and arguments for and against entitlements to legal representation; the role of lawyers as gatekeepers and facilitators; benefits and costs of providing counsel in different contexts and cases; existing and potential alternatives to law, lawyers and courts as routes to justice; race, class and gender inequalities. The course readings emphasize empirical research.
57535	Lecture-Discussion	JI	4:00PM -6:20PM	T	214 Davenport Hall	Inda, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/17/12-05/02/12 Section Info: Topic: Politics of Immigration (undergraduates only) This course focuses on how immigrants in the United States have historically been constructed as a "problem" and on various ways that political and other authorities have consequently sought to govern them. Topics include nativism, criminalization, border policing, deportation, detention and incarceration, welfare reform, vigilantism, disease and public health, and anti-immigrant policy activism.
57584	Lecture	NS	3:30PM -5:50PM	M	147 Armory	Sugrue, N	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/17/12-05/02/12 Section Info: Topic: Health Care Reform and the 2011 Elections. This course examins Health Care Reform efforts at the state and national levels. Analyses of these reforming efforts will be examined in a variety of ways, with most attention being paid to health care reform and the 2011 elections.