SOC 396

Spring 2013

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Credit: 3 hours.

May be repeated if topics vary. Prerequisite: SOC 100 and consent of instructor.

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CRN Type Section Time Day Location Instructor Section Details
58846
Lecture
AMM
12:30PM -1:50PM
TR
1090 Lincoln Hall
Marshall, A
Mwaniki, M
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
01/14/13-05/01/13
Section Info:
Topic: Criminal Justice Systems
59524
Lecture-Discussion
GST
12:30PM -1:50PM
TR
329 Davenport Hall
Pintar, J
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
01/14/13-05/01/13
Section Title:
GenTech, SocNet, TransRacident
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Topic: Genetic Technologies, Social Networks, and the Transformation of Racial Identities in Europe This course examines the rapid acceleration in the global production of genetic knowledge that was triggered by the initiation of the Human Genome Diversity Project in 1991, and the diverse social networks (commercial, hobbyist, academic, and religious) through which this knowledge continues to be received, framed, and disseminated. Nationalists across Europe increasingly use genetic findings to strengthen ethnic origin myths, or to tear down the territorial claims of competing groups. Pseudoscientific racism has resurged among white supremacists as discussions of mtDNA and the Ice Age inhabitation of the refuges of the last glacial maximum, collide with traditional notions of East and West, North and South. Over the course of the semester we will take a multi-disciplinary approach to the issues, drawing from the natural and social sciences and the humanities to examine the interaction of genetic discoveries with the collective re-imagining of racial categories and identities in Europe.
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