This course covers research methods specific to both sociology and anthropology through directed readings, lectures, and projects designed to prepare students for the applied research undertaken in SOC 4100 Directed Research in Sociology/Anthropology. Focus is on survey and field research, field notes, methods of ethnographic documenting, in-depth interviewing, content analysis, and questionnaire development. Students are required to have their research proposals approved by the Social Sciences Institutional Review Board by the end of the semester. This course is offered every fall semester. Prerequisites: SOC 1000 Introduction to Sociology and ANT 2000 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, and junior or senior standing, or permission of instructor.
- Teacher: Siti Kusujiarti
This course covers research methods specific to both sociology and anthropology through directed readings, lectures, and projects designed to prepare students for the applied research undertaken in SOC 4100 Directed Research in Sociology/Anthropology. Focus is on survey and field research, field notes, methods of ethnographic documenting, in-depth interviewing, content analysis, and questionnaire development. Students are required to have their research proposals approved by the Social Sciences Institutional Review Board by the end of the semester. This course is offered every fall semester. Prerequisites: SOC 1000 Introduction to Sociology and ANT 2000 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, and junior or senior standing, or permission of instructor.
- Teacher: Susan Ortiz
This course is an introduction to data science. It uses the R programming language to efficiently clean and organize, analyze and explore, and effectively summarize and visualize the data. Appropriate statistical methods are used to make data driven decisions. Prerequisite: MAT 1415 Applied Statistics I (2cr) & MAT 1416 Applied Statistics II (2cr) (Students must complete the two-course Statistics sequence) OR BIO 2020 Ecology. May be taken concurrently.
- Teacher: Holly Rosson
This course explores the background to the surprising 2016 election and subsequent events by looking deeply at American history, culture, and politics. The course examines the ways in which Trump's election may mark a break with the past, but also how it makes sense when examined in its proper context, in the history of racial and gender categories, the rise of social and economic inequality, and the re-emergence of far-right ideologies. Our approach is interdisciplinary, using ideas and accounts from the academic disciplines of anthropology, sociology, history, economics, and literary studies. This class seeks to understand the roots of Trumpism and its effects through a sustained examination of its context.
- Teacher: Benjamin Feinberg
This course is an introduction to both the classical and modern questions about numbers. Students explore the integers, examining issues such as primes, divisibility, congruences, primitive roots, quadratic residues, and quadratic reciprocity. They master a variety of number theoretic techniques and computations and apply these in applications such as cryptography and coding theory. Prerequisite: MAT 2880 Mathematical Rigor or MAT 2890 Introduction to Mathematical Rigor or permission of instructor.
- Teacher: Holly Rosson