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Sociology of the Body
Instructor: Cary Costello (costello@uwm.edu)
How the body is shaped by social forces. Relationship between the body, identity, and culture, focusing on gender, race/ethnicity, and disability.


Social Data Analysis Using Regression
Instructor: Aki Roberts (aki@uwm.edu)
Advanced practical training in multivariate regression using real, large datasets (surveys, census data, etc.); how multiple independent variables influence a dependent variable.


Seminar in Sociology: Science in Society
Instructor: Gordon Gauchat (gauchat@uwm.edu)
Intensive study in a selected area of Sociology. Designed to encourage discussion, debate, and critical thinking.


Seminar in Sociology: Beer & Brewing
Instructor: Jennifer Jordan (jajordan@uwm.edu)
Intensive study in a selected area of Sociology. Designed to encourage discussion, debate, and critical thinking.


Professional Seminar
Instructor: John Roberts (jmrob@uwm.edu)


Systematic Sociological Theory
Instructor: Jennifer Jordan (jajordan@uwm.edu)
A general examination of sociological theories, their construction, problems of conceptualization, and methodological requirements.


Research Methods in Sociology
Instructor: Timothy O'Brien (obrien34@uwm.edu)


Research Methods in Sociology
Instructor: Timothy O'Brien (obrien34@uwm.edu)
Application of scientific methods to the analysis of social phenomena, methodological orientations in sociology, types of research procedure, and nature of sociological variables.


Advanced Statistical Methods in Sociology
Instructor: Aki Roberts (aki@uwm.edu)
Review of elementary statistics. Probability theory and its applications. Multivariate analysis. Nonparametric statistical inference. Measurement theory. Selected statistical models for hypothesis testing and theory construction.


Proseminar: The Teaching of Undergraduates
Instructor: Kent Redding (kredding@uwm.edu)
Designed to prepare and support new teachers of undergraduates in a variety of disciplines.


Urban Social Structure
Instructor: Marcus Britton (britton@uwm.edu)
Comprehensive analysis of the emergence and institutionalization of cultural and social patterns in urban settings; and future American urban social structures.


The Sociology of Inequality
Instructor: Cary Costello (costello@uwm.edu)
Social, economic, cultural, and political forces behind the formation and reproduction of social inequalities in the United States.


The Sociology of Institutions
Instructor: Gordon Gauchat (gauchat@uwm.edu)
Comprehensive analysis of the emergence and institutionalization of cultural and social patterns in urban settings; and future American urban social structures.


Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
Instructor: Esther Chan (chane@uwm.edu)
Patterns of racial and ethnic differentiation and how they originate and change over time.


Sociology of Culture
Instructor: Jennifer Jordan (jajordan@uwm.edu)
Selected themes in the sociology of culture, including symbols, language, forms of knowledge, power and practice, the arts, and media.


Seminar in Sociology of Contemporary Institutions: Science & Society
Instructor: Gordon Gauchat (gauchat@uwm.edu)
Analysis of major social institutions in modern societies in terms of status orders, division of labor, normative systems, processes of social change, and conflict. Specific topics and any additional prerequisites announced in Schedule of Classes


Seminar in Social Organization: Data and Society
Instructor: Noelle Chesley (chesley@uwm.edu)


Seminar in Social Organization: Data and Society
Instructor: Noelle Chesley (chesley@uwm.edu)
Study of conceptual approaches used in analyzing social organization: social stratification, complex organization, urbanization, small groups in mass society. Specific topics and any additional prerequisites announced in schedule of classes each time course is offered.


Qualitative Research Methods
Instructor: Esther Chan (chane@uwm.edu)
Seminar on logic, design, and presentation of social science research. Inductive and qualitative methods, theory construction, and ethics and procedures of research in natural settings.


Advanced Quantitative Analysis
Instructor: John Roberts (jmrob@uwm.edu)