2021-2022 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Department of Sociology and Interdisciplinary Social Sciences
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Office: Dudley Moorhead Hall 241
Telephone: 408-924-5320
Email: sociology@sjsu.edu; asianamericanstudies@sjsu.edu; womengenderandsexualitystudies@sjsu.edu
Website: www.sjsu.edu/siss
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
Scott Myers-Lipton
Associate Professors
William Armaline
Faustina DuCros
Megan Thiele
Assistant Professors
Jack Caraves
Soma de Bourbon
Amy August
Yvonne Y. Kwan
Joanne Rondilla
Preston O. Rudy
Elizabeth Sweet
Yolanda Wiggins
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.
ProgramsUndergraduate Major(s)
- Sociology, BA
- Sociology, Community Change Concentration, BA
- Sociology, Race and Ethnic Studies Concentration, BA
- Sociology, Social Interaction Concentration, BA
- Sociology, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Concentration, BA
Undergraduate Minor(s)
Master(s)
CoursesAsian American StudiesSocial ScienceSociologyWomen, Gender and Sexuality Studies- WGSS 5Q - Gender, Race & Sexuality in Media
- WGSS 10 - Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
- WGSS 20 - Women of Color in the U.S.
- WGSS 92 - International Program Studies
- WGSS 101 - Sex, Power, and Politics
- WGSS 102 - The Global Study of Women
- WGSS 107 - Psychology of Women
- WGSS 112 - Women in the Global Economy
- WGSS 114 - Politics of Mothering and Reproduction
- WGSS 120 - Special Topics in Women’s Studies
- WGSS 121 - Philosophy and Feminism
- WGSS 122 - Women in the Second Half of Life
- WGSS 131 - Gender, Sexuality, and Religion
- WGSS 135 - Trans Studies: Identities, Embodiment, & Politics
- WGSS 156 - Black Women Writers: Race, Culture and Resistance
- WGSS 160 - Queering Gender, Race, and Class
- WGSS 169 - Sexualities and the Body
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