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
William Armaline
Tanya Bakhru, Coordinator, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program
Natalie Boero, Co-Chair
Hien Duc Do, Co-Chair
Carlos Eduardo Garcia

Associate Professors

Faustina DuCros
​Yvonne Y. Kwan, Coordinator, Asian American Studies Program
Megan Thiele

Assistant Professors

Soma de Bourbon
Susana Gallardo
Trung Nguyen
Saugher Nojan
Joanne Rondilla
Preston O. Rudy
Morgan Sanchez
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; Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies). 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

• Sociology, BA
• Sociology, Community Change Concentration, BA
• Sociology, Race and Ethnic Studies Concentration, BA
• Sociology, Social Interaction Concentration, BA (Not Accepting Students)
• Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, BA

• Asian American Studies Minor
• Sociology Minor
• Sociology of Education Minor
• Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Minor

Courses

• AAS 1 - Introduction to Asian American Studies
• AAS 20 - Women of Color in the U.S.
• 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 - Race, Policy, and Urban Cities
• AAS 159 - Asian American Media Representation and Popular Culture
• 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 - Southeast Asian Diaspora in the US
• AAS 190 - Internship
• AAS 192 - History of Japanese Americans

• SOCS 15 - Statistical Applications in the Social Sciences
• SOCS 177 - Sociology of Education

• 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 104 - 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 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 157 - Sociology of Youth Sport
• SOCI 160 - Immigration and Identity
• SOCI 161 - City Life
• SOCI 162 - Race and Ethnic Relations
• SOCI 163 - Social Change
• SOCI 164 - 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 - International Program Studies
• SOCI 193 - Behavioral Science in Practice
• SOCI 199H - Senior Honors Project
• SOCI 200 - Sociological Practice
• SOCI 201 - Graduate Sociological Theory
• SOCI 204 - Quantitative Data Analysis
• SOCI 205 - Seminar in Qualitative Research Methods
• SOCI 223 - Seminar in Sociological Issues
• SOCI 262 - Seminar in Race and Ethnic Relations
• SOCI 263 - Seminar in Social Change
• SOCI 270 - Seminar in Sociology of Family
• SOCI 281 - Internship in Sociology
• SOCI 298 - Special Study
• SOCI 1290R - Culminating Experience Supervision

• 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 131 - Gender, Sexuality, and Religion
• WGSS 135 - Trans Studies: Identities, Embodiment, & Politics
• WGSS 156 - Black Women’s Writing
• WGSS 160 - Queering Gender, Race, and Class
• WGSS 169 - Sexualities and the Body
• WGSS 175 - Sociology of Masculinities and Femininities
• WGSS 180 - Individual Studies
• WGSS 182 - Women, Gender, and Sexuality in Literature
• WGSS 184 - Queer Literary Studies
• WGSS 189 - Feminist Perspectives on Gender and Religion
• WGSS 190 - Internship