Sociology

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SOCIOL 1 Introduction to Sociology 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018
Introduces students who are considering majoring in sociology to the basic topics, concepts, and principles of the study of society. This course is required for the major; 1 or any version of 3 is prerequisite for other sociology classes; students not considering a sociology major are directed to any version of 3 or 3AC.
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Rules & Requirements

Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for Sociology 1 after completing Sociology 3, 3A or 3AC.

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2-3 hours of lecture and 2-2 hours of discussion per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Sociology/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

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SOCIOL N1H Introduction to Sociology for Pre-Health Majors 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Summer 2019 8 Week Session, Summer 2018 8 Week Session, Summer 2017 8 Week Session
This course surveys the major theories, concepts, and substantive areas of sociology in ways that are specifically designed for undergraduate students pursuing careers in health and medicine as well as students who intend to major in sociology. In this course, the readings, lectures, and assignments have been chosen with the needs of pre­-health students in mind, consisting of units on social relationships, cultures, institutions, stratification, inequalities, demographics, and social change.
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Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: It is open to all majors, and there are no prerequisites. This course is required for the major; 1 or any version of 3 is prerequisite for other sociology classes

Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for Sociology 1 after completing Sociology 3, 3A or 3AC.

Hours & Format

Summer: 8 weeks - 6-8 hours of lecture per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Sociology/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

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SOCIOL R1B Sociological Reading & Composition 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Fall 2019, Summer 2019 Second 6 Week Session, Spring 2019
This course aims to; assist you in developing a clear, persuasive and personal prose style in English, to refine and build upon the close reading techniques you practiced in R1A and to equip you with the skills necessary for writing a research paper_a standard requirement of many upper-division (100-level) courses. Since our readings mostly cover social science, this course also introduces concepts useful for reading texts in these fields.
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Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: 1, 3, 3AC; or consent of instructor

Requirements this course satisfies: Satisfies the second half of the Reading and Composition requirement

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of seminar per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Sociology/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.

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SOCIOL 3AC Principles of Sociology: American Cultures 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018
Comparing the experience of three out of five ethnic groups (e.g. African Americans, Asian Americans, Chicano/Latino, European Americans, and Native Americans) we shall examine historically how each people entered American society and built communities and transformed their cultures in the process. Students will be introduced to the sociological perspective, characteristic methods of research, and such key concepts as culture, community, class, race, social change, and social movements.
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Rules & Requirements

Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for Sociology 3AC after completing Sociology 1, 3 or 3A. A deficiency in Sociology 3 or 3A may be removed by taking Sociology 3AC.

Requirements this course satisfies: Satisfies the American Cultures requirement

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week

Summer:
6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week
8 weeks - 5.5 hours of lecture per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Sociology/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

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SOCIOL 5 Evaluation of Evidence 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Fall 2019, Summer 2019 8 Week Session, Spring 2019
A review of methodological problems in assessing data relating to social life. Topics to be covered include: posing a sociological problem, gaining access to data, measuring, establishing correlation and causal connection among data, and relating data to theoretical context.
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Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 2 hours of discussion per week

Summer:
8 weeks - 5.5 hours of lecture and 3.5 hours of discussion per week
10 weeks - 4.5 hours of lecture and 3 hours of discussion per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Sociology/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

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SOCIOL 7 The Power of Numbers: Quantitative Data in Social Sciences 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Summer 2018 8 Week Session
This course will provide students with a set of skills to understand, evaluate, use, and produce quantitative data about the social world. It is intended specifically for social science majors, and focuses on social science questions. Students will learn to: produce basic graphs, find good-quality and relevant data on the web, manipulate data in a spreadsheet, including producing pivot tables, understand and calculate basic statistical measures of central tendency, variation, and correlation, understand and apply basic concepts of sampling and selection, and recognize an impossible statistic.
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Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: Soc. 1, 3, 3AC or consent of instructor

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week

Summer:
6 weeks - 10 hours of lecture per week
8 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Sociology/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

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SOCIOL 88 Data Science for Social Impact 2 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Not yet offered
This course explores the role of social research in policymaking and public decisions and develops skills for the communication of research findings and their implications in writing and through data visualization. Students will develop an understanding of various perspectives on the role that data and data analysts play in policymaking, learn how to write for a public audience about data, results, and implications, and learn how to create effective and engaging data visualizations.

Data Science Connector: This course builds on the Foundations of Data Science course by teaching more advanced data visualization skills and techniques, by providing an understanding of how data is used, and by teaching how to communicate about data in writing.
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Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: No prior knowledge is assumed or expected. <BR/><BR/>Corequisite or Prerequisite: Foundations of Data Science (COMPSCI C8 / INFO C8 / STAT C8). This course is a Data Science connector course and is meant to be taken concurrent with or after COMPSCI C8/ INFO C8 / STAT C8. Students may take more than one Data Science connector course if they wish, concurrent with or after having taken the C8 course

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 0.5 hours of lecture, 0.5 hours of discussion, and 1 hour of laboratory per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Sociology/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.

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SOCIOL 98 Directed Group Study 1 - 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2016
Group studies of selected topics which vary over time.
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Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: Consent of Instructor

Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-4 hours of directed group study per week

Summer: 8 weeks - 2-7.5 hours of directed group study per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Sociology/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final exam not required.

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SOCIOL 98BC Berkeley Connect 1 Unit [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016
Berkeley Connect is a mentoring program, offered through various academic departments, that helps students build intellectual community. Over the course of a semester, enrolled students participate in regular small-group discussions facilitated by a graduate student mentor (following a faculty-directed curriculum), meet with their graduate student mentor for one-on-one academic advising, attend lectures and panel discussions featuring department faculty and alumni, and go on field trips to campus resources. Students are not required to be declared majors in order to participate.
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Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: Consent of Instructor

Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-1 hours of directed group study per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Sociology/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final exam not required.

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SOCIOL 101 Sociological Theory I 5 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018
First half of a year-long course on the history of social thought as a source of present-day problems and hypotheses.
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Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: 1, 3 or 3AC, or consent of instructor

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 2 hours of discussion per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Sociology/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

Formerly known as: 101A

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SOCIOL 102 Sociological Theory II 5 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018
Second half of a year-long course on the history of social thought as a source of present-day problems and hypotheses.
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Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: 1, 3, 3AC or consent of instructor

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 2 hours of discussion per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Sociology/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

Formerly known as: 101B

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SOCIOL 103 Advanced Study in Social Theory 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Fall 2018, Fall 2016, Spring 2015
Course involves pursuing study in subfields of sociological theory. The course presumes a general background in social theory.
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Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: 101A-101B or 101 and 102

Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for 103 after taking 102 prior to Fall 2010.

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week

Summer: 8 weeks - 5.5 hours of lecture per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Sociology/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required.

Formerly known as: 102

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SOCIOL 105 Research Design and Sociological Methods 5 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Spring 2018
Problems of research design, measurement, and data collection, processing, and analysis will be considered. Attention will be given to both qualitative and quantitative studies.
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Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: 5 or consent of instructor

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3-3 hours of lecture and 0-2 hours of discussion per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Sociology/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

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SOCIOL 106 Quantitative Sociological Methods 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Spring 2017
This course will cover more technical issues in quantitative research methods, and will include, according to discretion of instructor, a practicum in data collection and/or analysis. Recommended for students interested in graduate work in sociology or research careers.
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Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: Sociology 5 or consent of instructor

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of seminar per week

Terms offered: Spring 2019,...