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These courses may have been taken by previous Social Work students or may have been identified as of possible interest to Social Work students. Some courses may be restricted and/or not open to
Social Work students. There are many other courses not listed offered elsewhere in the university that may be of interest. Interest in courses numbered below 500 should be checked for graduate
level status since many are only offered for undergraduate credit. You can check this by contacting the department offering the course or contacting the SSW Registrar.
The information may not be up to date or complete. Please seek additional information from the department where the course is offered and from the instructors of the course. We strongly
recommend you discuss your plans to take outside courses with your advisor to make sure they are a good fit for your educational program.
| School: |
Sociology |
| Credits: |
3 |
| Course Description: |
This course provides students with an understanding of the influence of social factors on health, illness and medical treatment. Topics to be covered include: the social nature of disease and illness, the social organization of medical care, medical education, the growth of alternative health care systems, medical ethics/bioethics, the ecology of health care, and the connection between faith, healing and medicine. We will also consider the way society influences our thinking about illness by exploring references to illness in literature and everyday discourse. |
Offerings
| Section | Instructor | Days | Location | U-M Class # |
|---|
| 001 | Balagopal, Mallika | Mon, Wed | B844 EH | 30741 |
| 002 | Balagopal, Mallika | - | 4128 LSA | 31125 |
| 003 | Balagopal, Mallika | - | 4128 LSA | 31126 |
| 004 | Balagopal, Mallika | - | 4128 LSA | 31127 |
| School: |
Sociology |
| Credits: |
2-4 |
| Prerequisites: |
SOC 100 or consent of instructor. |
| Course Description: |
Examines the idea of human rights: human rights in liberal democracies, especially in the United States; in pre-industrial societies; in totalitarian states. Studies human rights and cultural evolution; justification of human rights. |
Offerings
| Section | Instructor | Days | Location | U-M Class # |
|---|
| 001 | Balagopal, Mallika | Mon, Wed | B844 EH | 30741 |
| 002 | Balagopal, Mallika | - | 4128 LSA | 31125 |
| 003 | Balagopal, Mallika | - | 4128 LSA | 31126 |
| 004 | Balagopal, Mallika | - | 4128 LSA | 31127 |
| School: |
Sociology |
| Credits: |
4 |
| Prerequisites: |
Graduate Standing |
| Course Description: |
SOC 505 is the first term of a year-long course surveying the theories and practices of sociology. During this academic term, we trace the lineaments and genealogies of major approaches in social theory, including utilitarianism, Marxism and neo-Marxism, cultural structuralism, post-structuralism, and Weberian and Polanyian perspectives. We also explore various attempts by theorists to integrate these approaches. The course remains deliberately open-ended; we seek to convey a sense of what “doing theory” is all about, rather than envisioning a final theoretical or practical resolution. The course follows a lecture format, although there will also be opportunity for seminar-style class discussions. Students will be required to participate in several shorter writing exercises and to produce a research paper in dialogue with the broad themes of the course. This course is required of graduate students in Sociology. |
Offerings
| Section | Instructor | Days | Location | U-M Class # |
|---|
| 001 | Krippner, Greta R | - | 4155 LSA | 11667 |
| School: |
Sociology |
| Credits: |
4 |
| Prerequisites: |
Graduate Standing |
| Course Description: |
This course is the first of a two-semester sequence required of all sociology department graduate students. It consists of two weekly class sessions plus a lab-discussion. In the first semester we cover basic concepts of probability, sampling distributions, confidence intervals, and statistical inference. The lab sessions will be used to discuss problems encountered in the lectures and written assignments and to develop statistical computing skills. The course assumes no prior knowledge of statistics and no mathematical knowledge beyond high school algebra.
Please note that this is not a course in statistical theory, but rather one on the applied use of statistical methods for the analysis of social science data. As such, it will explore many topics but not deal with any of them in great depth. Those who are contemplating more advanced work involving statistical methods should consider taking other courses that do delve more deeply into statistical theory, of which there are a variety on campus. |
Offerings
| Section | Instructor | Days | Location | U-M Class # |
|---|
| 001 | Best, Rachel Kahn | Mon, Wed | 1640 CHEM | 11668 |
| 002 | Chanin, Zoe | Fri | 4260 LSA | 25093 |
| 003 | Chanin, Zoe | Fri | 4260 LSA | 39008 |
| School: |
Sociology |
| Credits: |
3 |
| Course Description: |
This course is the core course for the Culture and Knowledge field in the Ph.D. program in the Department of Sociology. The course is designed as an introduction to the theoretical debates about culture, representation, and identity formation, and about issues of structure and agency raised by these debates. It explores classical and contemporary theoretical approaches to the study of culture and knowledge, and diverse methodologies including discourse analysis, narratives, frame analysis, and ethnography. We will focus on a few selected research areas that have been especially affected by the "turn to culture" including gender, race, class, and nation. |
Offerings
| Section | Instructor | Days | Location | U-M Class # |
|---|
| 001 | Zubrzycki, Genevieve | Mon | 4155 LSA | 33765 |
| School: |
Studies Abroad |
| Course Description: |
The University of Melbourne's Faculty of Arts offers courses in a wide range of disciplines including Women's Studies, Australian and Asian Studies, and English Literature. The Australia Centre, part of the Faculty of Arts, has developed a course for study abroad and other international students entitled "Australia Now," which provides students with an introduction to Australian history and politics and requires them to develop a research project on some aspect of modern-day Australia. |
Offerings
| Section | Instructor | Days | Location | U-M Class # |
|---|
| TBD | TBD | - | | 11713 |