Development of culture, adjustments to environment and society on different levels of cultural complexity.

T, F 9:55-11:10AM Rosen

Introductory survey of economic philosophers, philosophies and the central questions of modern economics. The course offers a basic working vocabulary in economics and relies on a minimal amount of mathematical expression for students with no previous exposure to the field. Among the central concepts breached are markets and regulation, trade and tariffs, fiscal and monetary policy, distribution and redistribution.

T, F 9:55-11:10AM Jonnard

A survey of physical and mental competition from ancient Greece, Rome and Assyria to the modern day. Includes references to the political, sociocultural and economic influences on sport as well as the influence of sport on history.

M, TH 9:55-11:10AM McTague

M, TH 12:45-2:00PM Sommerville

A survey of the major monuments and issues surrounding and reflected by art and architecture in medieval Europe, including late antiquity, Byzantium, the Carolingian renaissance, Ottonian art, the medieval manuscript, Italian romanesque and Norman art, and both early Gothic and international Gothic architecture.

This is the first semester of a two semester sequence in African-American history. The course explores selected major developments, issues and interpretations unique to the past of Americans of African ancestry from the 17^th century through the end of the Civil War and emancipation. Among the topics covered are: the trans-Atlantic slave trade; the development of racism; free blacks; master-slave relations; antislavery and abolitionism; slave revolts; sexual exploitation; and, the slave family.

T, F 9:55-11:10AM Sommerville

The study and practice of presenting history to a public audience (rather than to an academic audience of students or experts). Focus is on museum exhibits, historic houses, sites, documentary film, oral history and interactive media.

T, 12:45-3:25PM Salzman

This course explores how Europe has been incredibly altered by World War I, the Great Depression, World War II, colonial imperialism, and the Cold War. The military, political, and cultural aspects of contemporary Europe are covered through history textbooks, key novels, and crucial memoirs.

W, 10:00-12:30PM McTague

Principles of expository prose: focus on style, tone, organization, purpose and audience.

Informal fallacies, truth and validity, principles and deductive reasoning, immediate inference, categorical syllogisms, compound arguments.

M, F 12:45-2:00PM Larson

Based on presentations from a wide-array of legal practitioners, this seminar examines competing perspectives on the law and legal work, answers student questions about legal careers, and explores the differences between "law in the book and the law in action".

Meets every other week. M 2:30-3:45PM Peabody

This Senior Seminar explores major legal issues "in the news". Students use primary resources, including Supreme Court oral arguments and opinions, as well as recent scholarship to examine the ways in which the law intersects with, and shapes, political debates, controversies, and policy.

Meets every other week. F 12:45-3:25PM Peabody

An introduction to the methods of social research: research design, development of testing instruments and sample collection and analysis of data and preparation of reports. (Prerequisite: SOCI 1201 Introduction to Sociology.)

W 9:30-12:00 Larson

Structure and function of American national government; roles of interest groups and political parties, voting behavior, powers of president, Congress, bureaucracy and federal judiciary.

M, TH 12:45-2:00PM Peabody

M, TH 12:45-2:00PM Salzman

Methods of research: research design, development of testing instruments and sample collection and analysis of data and preparation of reports.

W 9:30AM-12:00PM Larson

Introduction to and survey of election laws, including ballot access regultion, campaign finance, and structures of primary elections, polling, advertising, the role of parties, media relations.

M, TH 11:20-12:35PM Larson

Close investigation of the history and origins of the U.S. electoral college, reforms made, proposals for reform, and the causal relation between the electoral college and the modern presidential campaign.

T, F 11:20-12:35PM Rosen

An examination of the government, political institutions, and political party structure of the People's Republic of China; the evolving systems and policies from the time of Imperial, Nationalist and "liberation" China, as well as those of the Cultural Revolution and post-Mao eras; the forces of "hard-line" Communism that are restraining the powerful drive for democratization.

T 12:45-3:25PM Salzman

Survey of institutional structures of, and relations among, the South Asian countries, including: India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, and Myanmar.

TH 2:10-4:50PM Peabody

Based on presentations from a wide-array of legal practitioners, this seminar examines competing perspectives on the law and legal work, answers student questions about legal careers, and explores the differences between "law in the book and the law in action".

Meets every other week. M 2:30-3:45PM Peabody

This Senior Seminar explores major legal issues "in the news". Students use primary resources, including Supreme Court oral arguments and opinions, as well as recent scholarship to examine the ways in which the law intersects with, and shapes, political debates, controversies, and policy.

Meets every other week. F 12:45-3:25PM Peabody

A systematic introduction to basic sociological concepts: culture, norms, status, role, groups, character, structure, associations, institutions, community, and society.

M, TH 9:55-11:10AM Gadsden

T, F 2:10-3:25PM Thomson

W, 10:00-12:35PM Thomson

An introduction to the methods of social research: research design, development of testing instruments and sample collection and analysis of data and preparation of reports. (Prerequisite: SOCI 1201 Introduction to Sociology.)

W, 9:30-12:00PM Larson

A study of the mass media, its organization, political economy, power, impact on norms and values and its relation to popular culture.

T, F 11:20-12:35PM Thomson

A survey of the development of the study of society through the works and lives of such men as Weber, Durkheim, Marx, Simmel, Mead, Cooley and Park. Prerequisite: SOCI 1201 Introduction to Sociology or permission of instructor.

T,F 9:55-11:10AM Thomson

The social and cultural aspects of drug use in American society. Emphasis on the causes and consequences of past and present control strategies.

M, TH 12:45-2:00PM Gadsden

The growth of the economic, political and social organization of American urban institutions; the social structure of the city, suburbia and metropolitan regions, effect of urban life on the individual.

W, 5:25-8:00PM Gadsden

Link between the world of scholarship and the workday world f social agency is explored by placing students in internships in public and non profit organizations while investigating and critiquing theoretical literature of sociology. (Instructor approval required.)

TH, 2:10-4:50 PM Peabody

The study of how organizations affect people, what they look like, what current thinking is that they should look like, and how they can be changed to get there. Its format is experiential, drawing on in-class case studies and exercises as its primary mode of learning.