Office: Dudley Moorhead Hall 241

Telephone: 408-924-5320

Professors

Maria Luisa Alaniz
Tanya Bakhru, Coordinator, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program
Natalie Boero
Peter Chua
Hien Duc Do, Coordinator, Asian American Studies Program
Carlos Eduardo Garcia, Chair
Shahin Gerami
Amy Leisenring
Susan Bell Murray, Director of Graduate Studies
Scott Myers-Lipton

Associate Professors

William Armaline
Megan Thiele

Assistant Professors

Jack Caraves
Faustina DuCros
Yvonne Y. Kwan
Joanne Rondilla
Preston O. Rudy
Elizabeth Sweet

Overview

The Department of Sociology and Interdisciplinary Social Sciences educates students about the social processes that create, maintain, and transform our society. The major uses sociological foundations and applications as well as interdisciplinary approaches to the study of society and in teacher education training. Sociologists analyze how social institutions and social structures such as the economy, politics, education, the family, mass media, and the criminal justice system affect individuals in society. The major provides students with the skills and knowledge to navigate the social, political, economic, historical, and cultural issues that build and sustain effective leadership in our complex global society. The teacher preparation program is designed to ensure that teachers will excel in classrooms that are increasingly heterogeneous in terms of race and ethnicity.

We have two major degree program tracks: Sociology, Sociology with Concentrations (Community Change; Race and Ethnic Studies; Social Interaction; Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies); Social Science Teacher Preparation (Multiple and Single Subject). The department offers several minor courses of study: Asian American Studies, Sociology, Sociology of Education, and Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies. These degree programs lead to careers in education, government and public policy, criminal justice, nonprofit organizations, marketing research, human resource management, social work, and other areas.

Programs

• Asian American Studies Minor
• Sociology Minor
• Sociology of Education Minor
• Sociology, BA
• Sociology, Community Change Concentration, BA
• Sociology, MA (Not Accepting Students)
• Sociology, Race and Ethnic Studies Concentration, BA
• Sociology, Social Interaction Concentration, BA
• Sociology, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Concentration, BA
• Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Minor

Courses

• AAS 20 - Women of Color in the US
• AAS 25 - The Changing Majority: Power and Ethnicity in America
• AAS 33A - Asian Americans in U.S. History I
• AAS 33B - Asian Americans in U.S. History II
• AAS 125 - Filipino Experience in the United States
• AAS 133 - Introduction to Social Issues in Planning
• AAS 145 - Urban Policy and Its Impact on Inner City Residents
• AAS 170 - Special Topics in Asian American Studies
• AAS 175 - Asian American Communities
• AAS 180 - Individual Studies
• AAS 185 - Multicultural Perspectives within American Society
• AAS 186 - The Vietnamese Experience in America
• AAS 190 - Internship
• AAS 192 - History of Japanese Americans

• SOCS 15 - Statistical Applications in the Social Sciences
• SOCS 92 - Int’l Program Studies
• SOCS 137 - California History for Teachers
• SOCS 138 - US History for Teachers
• SOCS 139 - World History for Teachers
• SOCS 177 - Sociology of Education
• SOCS 185 - Teaching in a Diverse Society
• SOCS 192 - International Program Studies
• SOCS 195 - Social Science Teacher Preparation

• SOCI 1 - Introduction to Sociology
• SOCI 15 - Statistical Applications in the Social Sciences
• SOCI 57 - Community Involvement and Personal Growth
• SOCI 80 - Social Problems
• SOCI 92 - International Program Studies
• SOCI 100W - Writing Workshop
• SOCI 101 - Social Theory
• SOCI 102 - Introduction to Statistics
• SOCI 103 - SPSS Computer Analysis
• SOCI 104 - Quantitative Research Methods
• SOCI 104B - Advanced Quantitative Research Methods
• SOCI 105 - Qualitative Research Methods
• SOCI 105B - Advanced Qualitative Research Methods
• SOCI 116 - Global Society
• SOCI 118 - Sociology of Human Rights and Social Justice
• SOCI 120 - Contemporary Social Issues
• SOCI 122 - Women in the Second Half of Life
• SOCI 127 - Community-Based Participatory Research
• SOCI 140 - Sociology of Media
• SOCI 141 - Environmental Sociology
• SOCI 142 - Critical Native American Studies
• SOCI 143 - Feminist Perspectives on Gender and Education
• SOCI 144 - Education for Liberation
• SOCI 145 - Community Mental Health
• SOCI 146 - Work, Power, and Leisure
• SOCI 147 - Education and Global Justice
• SOCI 148 - Current Topics and Trends in Education
• SOCI 151 - Violence in the Family
• SOCI 154 - Sociology and Non-Conforming Behavior
• SOCI 160 - Immigration and Identity
• SOCI 161 - City Life
• SOCI 162 - Race and Ethnic Relations
• SOCI 163 - Social Change
• SOCI 164 - Social Action
• SOCI 164SL - Social Action
• SOCI 165 - Poverty, Wealth and Privilege
• SOCI 166 - Medical Sociology
• SOCI 169 - Political Sociology
• SOCI 170 - Sociology of Family
• SOCI 171 - Person and Society
• SOCI 172 - Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Transgender Studies
• SOCI 173 - Socialization and Identity
• SOCI 174 - Sexualities
• SOCI 175 - Sociology of Masculinities and Femininities
• SOCI 176 - Sociology of Everyday Life
• SOCI 177 - Sociology of Education
• SOCI 178 - Sociology of Childhood
• SOCI 179 - Sociology of Higher Education
• SOCI 180 - Individual Studies
• SOCI 181 - Service Internship
• SOCI 181B - Sociology Career Capstone
• SOCI 192 - Int’l Program Studies
• SOCI 193 - Behavioral Science in Practice
• SOCI 199H - Senior Honors Thesis
• SOCI 200 - Sociological Practice
• SOCI 201 - Graduate Sociological Theory
• SOCI 204 - Quantitative Data Analysis
• SOCI 205 - Seminar in Qualitative Research Methods
• SOCI 216 - Seminar in Global Topics
• SOCI 223 - Seminar in Sociological Issues
• SOCI 254 - Seminar in Deviance and Social Control
• SOCI 262 - Seminar in Race and Ethnic Relations
• SOCI 263 - Seminar in Social Change
• SOCI 270 - Seminar in Sociology of Family
• SOCI 275 - Seminar in Gender Issues
• SOCI 281 - Internship in Sociology
• SOCI 298 - Special Study
• SOCI 299 - Master’s Thesis or Project
• SOCI 1290R - Culminating Experience Supervision

• WOMS 5Q - Gender, Race & Sexuality in Media
• WOMS 10 - Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
• WOMS 20 - Women of Color in the US
• WOMS 92 - Int’l Program Studies
• WOMS 101 - Sex, Power, and Politics
• WOMS 102 - The Global Study of Women
• WOMS 107 - Psychology of Women
• WOMS 112 - Women in the Global Economy
• WOMS 114 - Politics of Mothering and Reproduction