Sociology Degrees

...reading and writing skills by combining traditional textbook material with their own explorations of Chinese speaking societies, using the human...

...in the administration of the death penalty, enforcement of the drug laws, and the regulation of police investigations. The third and final part of... Learn about: Constitutional Law, IT Law...

...on this fascinating set of problems. Lectures: 1 session / week, 2 hours / session There are no prerequisites for this course. This course examines...

...modern Japan as a technological power in the world; specific examples to be discussed in class include kamikaze aircraft, the Shinkansen high-speed bullet train...

...culture, work, medicine and the family. WGS. 101 draws on multiple disciplines-such as literature, history, economics, psychology, sociology... Learn about: Media Studies, Communication Training, IT Law...

...It investigates the relationships between technology and identity categories, such as gender, race, class, and sexuality, and examines how technology offers...

...course of history in achieving greater equity in the domestic sphere and in the workplace, but they still earn less on average than men and are underrepresented...

...1 session / week, 3 hours / session There are no prerequisites for this course. This interdisciplinary course will introduce students to gender as a theoretical... Learn about: Public Health...

...production in embedded codes and metaphors. In addition, this course also considers the significance of these films as artifacts and examples of various aspects of queer theory...

...part of the Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies (GCWS). GCWS at MIT is a pioneering effort that brings together feminist scholars and teachers at...

...inter-ethnic conflicts and peaceful relations, and many kinds of cultural productions. Seminar: 1 session / week, 3 hours / session Application to... Learn about: Construction Training...

...clinical psychology, as well as women's, gender, and cultural studies, to better understand how filmic representations of the woman's body first emerge... Learn about: Clinical Psychology, Cultural Studies, Film Theory...

...As it turns out, sex, marriage, and the family have never been stable institutions; to the contrary, they have continued to function as flash points... Learn about: Cross Cultural, IT Law...

...traditions of instrumentation, performance settings, and styles. This seminar will examine the gendered dimensions of the music - the song texts...

...individual and collectivities in the production of scientific knowledge and technologies? Lectures: 1 session / week, 3 hours / session This course...

...as well as in representations of women and girls in media and popular culture, can affect outcomes in these areas. Seminar: 1 session /...

...corporate obstetrics, abortion, obesity, intersex, harassment and other forms of gendered violence, mental health and stress, parent-child attachment... Learn about: Human Rights, Mental Health...

...policies such as affirmative action, parental leave, child-care policy, and working-time policies and the role they play–or could play–in achieving parity...

...we will examine the ways that class, race, and sexuality affect women's experiences of reproduction, and the role of the state in shaping those experiences...

...familial ties and social and political preoccupations play in shaping the values of the writers and the nature of the characters encountered in the texts and films...