Part one of a required year-long seminar for all M.A. candidates in the first year of study. Provides an orientation to graduate education and offers students opportunities for professional development. Topics include strategies for successful graduate education; advice on mentoring and networking; starting a thesis project, presenting research, applying for grants, and publishing. Reviews various career opportunities for professional sociologists and provides guidance on how to best prepare for the job market.

Part two of a required year-long seminar for all M.A. candidates in the first year of study. Provides an orientation to graduate education and offers students opportunities for professional development. Topics include strategies for successful graduate education; advice on mentoring and networking; starting a thesis project, presenting research, applying for grants, and publishing. Reviews various career opportunities for professional sociologists and provides guidance on how to best prepare for the job market.

A survey and discussion of the content, viewpoints and methods that can be employed in teaching sociology. Emphasis is on course preparation for new teachers .

Furthers the development of students' sociological writing skills and enhances their ability to generate clear, concise and effective sociological arguments and analysis through engaged discussion of writing goals and strategies, instructor feedback, and peer review.

Required of all M.A. candidates in the first year of study. Covers the logic of how to frame and design social research. Topics include the link between theory and method, selection of a research topic, inductive versus deductive reasoning, causality (including research designs for identifying causal relations) and causal errors, conceptualization, operationalization, levels of analysis, measurement, reliability and validity, sampling, using mixed methods, research ethics, and the politics of social research.

Required of all M.A. candidates in the first year of study. Introduction to quantitative methods of social research. Topics include linear regression, including ANOVA and ANCOVA; hypothesis testing and model selection; regression diagnostics; non-linearity and functional form; path analysis; and factor analysis.

Introduction to qualitative methods of social research. Topics include contemporary theoretical and epistemological debates; ethical issues; and exploration of the diverse traditions approaches of qualitative research. Discussion of different strategies for conducting fieldwork, interviewing, and textual, virtual, and archival research. Hands on approaches to gathering data and addressing the relationships between theory, methods of analysis, and data collection; and introduction to a variety of perspectives on writing, narrative, and analytic strategies.

An examination of the original writings of the major figures in sociological theory: Durkheim, Marx, Weber, and Simmel. The course focuses upon the theories of these major figures, their relations with contemporaries, their interconnections, and their influence upon subsequent theory and theory groupings.

Special topics in sociological theory and research in culture. Topics will vary by semester.

Special topics in sociological theory and research in deviance and crime. Topics will vary by semester.

Analysis of work behavior with particular attention to formal and informal organization of labor, white collar, executive and professional roles.

Special topics in sociological theory and research in social stratification and inequality. Topics will vary by semester.

Variable topics in the study of racism, such as racism and U.S. social policy, white racism, and the social construction of whiteness. Topic may vary by semester.

Special topics in sociological analyses of racism and ethnic group relations. Topics will vary by semester.

Theoretical and empirical work on immigration and ethnicity including forms of assimilation, ethnicity and transnationalism; challenges and opportunities for incorporation, and struggles over political, social, economic human rights. The course focuses on the US with selected cases from Europe and Asia.

(Also offered as LLAS 5525.) This interdisciplinary course considers intersections of race, immigration, and reproduction within the United States and in a transnational context.

Critical appraisal of social scientific perspectives on women and men. Feminist theory and current social science research on gender. Emphasis on interdisciplinary approaches.

(Also offered as WGSS 5613.) Analyses of theories that simultaneously take into account dynamics of race, class, gender, sexuality, nation, ability, and other dimensions of social inequality and difference. How scholars research intersectionality, the limits and possibilities of different approaches, and the types of methodologies that are most effective for intersectional analysis.

(Also offered as WGSS 5614.) Sexuality as an axis of citizenship in diverse national and international contexts. Analysis of access to citizenship, relationship recognition, marriage rights, heteronormativity and compulsory heterosexuality, trans citizenship claims, immigration, asylum, sex work, reproductive rights, sex education, racism and racialization, colonialism, and social justice.

Survey and analysis of theories and present problem areas in demography. This includes such topics as: population growth and distribution, population composition, mortality, fertility, migration, and population policy.

Analysis of the conditions and processes underlying movement formation and participation and influencing their careers and outcomes.

Explores gendered construction of state and politics with attention to changes over time, across cultures and political institutions. Examines key debates within feminist political and legal theories and third world feminist and post colonialsist theories of the state. Discusses links between local resistance, immigration, cultural citizenship, international politics, neoliberal discourse, and global economic restructuring.

A seminar course. Topics vary by semester.

Special topic readings or investigations.

Advanced topics in sociological analysis. Topics will vary by semester.

Advanced quantitative methods of social research. Topics include generalized linear models, including binary logit and probit, multinomial logit, ordered logit and probit, and count data; censoring, truncation, and sample selection; panel data; and correlated errors.

Advanced topics in qualitative methods of social research. Further interrogation of topics including contemporary theoretical and epistemological debates in qualitative methodology; continued exploration of ethical issues and diversity of traditions in conducting fieldwork, interviewing, and analysis of virtual, and archival research. Hands-on approaches to gathering data and addressing the relationship between theory, analysis, and data; and introduction to a variety of perspectives on writing and narrative analysis.

An examination of current theories. Topics include: consideration of their continuities with classical theories, conceptual and measurement problems in testing and constructing current theories, and the interplay between theory and research.

Advanced topics in sociological theory. Topics will vary by semester.