Fall 2026 Courses

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Undergraduate Courses

SOCI 1110: Intro Sociology

It seems fitting to begin this course with a quote from “The Promise” by a famous sociologist, written in the early 1960s. It refers to changes which occur in a society and the effect of these changes on the individual. During this past 18 months we have certainly witnessed significant changes in our society, and C. Wright Mills’ “The Sociological Imagination” will provide insight to these changes and their effect on society and the individual.

This course will introduce students to the fundamental concepts and principles of sociology. Topics include the study of cultures, patterns of social values, social institutions, stratification, and social change.

  • 1110- 001 | Nepstad | TR 09:30-10:45 | FACE | CRN 63797
  • 1110- 002 | Nepstad | TR 11:00-12:15 | FACE | CRN 82213
  • 1110-003 | Torrez | MWF 11:00-11:50 | FACE | CRN 63798
  • 1110-004 | Huddleston | MWF 02:00-02:50 | FACE | CRN 79585
  • 1110-005 | Wilson | TR 02:00-03:15 | FACE | CRN 82214 
  • 1110-006 | Goodman | MWF 12:00-12:50 | FACE | CRN 82215 
  • 1110-010 | Torrez | ONLINE | CRN 63805 | 2nd half course

SOCI 2120: Intro Criminal Justice Systems

This course focuses on the study of crime, the criminal justice system and crime-related public policy. Discussion of key criminological concepts, the measurement of crime and delinquency, the distribution of crime in society, victimization, public opinion, the criminal justice system, and crime control strategies and policies.

*Prerequisite required: SOCI 1110: Intro Sociology, or consent of the instructor


  • 2120-001 | Trujillo | TR 03:30-04:45 | FACE | CRN 78161
  • 2120-002 | Martensen | ONLINE | CRN 80143

SOCI 2210: Sociology of Deviance

This course is designed to provide an overview of the study of deviance and social control from multiple sociological perspectives. The instructor will present how sociologists research deviance and social control and the ethical issues involved in studying human subjects involved in these activities. The course also examines central sociological theories for understanding the causes of deviant behavior.

*Prerequisite required: SOCI 1110: Intro Sociology

  • 2210-001 | Roman Alfaro | TR 02:00-03:15 | FACE | CRN 63757
  • 2210-002 | Davis | MWF 02:30-4:45 | FACE | CRN 79167

SOCI 2310: Contemporary Social Problems

  • 2310-001 | Davis | TR 12:30-01:45 | FACE | CRN 82575

SOCI 2315: The Dynamics of Prejudice

This course is designed to help students understand how attitudes and beliefs of individuals shape intergroup relations and their impacts on the daily lives of individuals as well as the effects that these beliefs have on the larger social structure of American society. We will examine how profoundly our society and the groups to which we belong, influence us and our beliefs and ultimately how these beliefs shape prejudice in our society. In this course, students are encouraged to challenge ideologies that are considered "common sense" or that are taken for granted and this in turn will allow them to critically engage issues in society such as racism, classism, sexism, and will leave with an understanding on how privilege affects our views on disability, LGBTQ issues, religion and immigration. Rather than investigating these themes in the abstract, students will identify and unpack how these larger structural issues play integral roles in their everyday lives, interactions, and existence. Ultimately, this course aims to address the social inequalities that exists in our society as a result of prejudice and will challenge students to identify and engage in strategies to work towards changing these aspects of society.

  • 2315-001 | Echeverri-Herrera | ONLINE | CRN 82596 
  • 2315-002 | Lemus | MWF 11:00-11:50 | FACE | CRN 82664 

SOCI 307: Nonviolent Alternatives

  • 307-001 | Nepstad | TR 02:00-03:15 | FACE | CRN 82600

SOCI 310: Sociology of Aging and the Aged

This course will explore the social aspects of aging, how aging impacts our lives and those around us, as well as communities, states and country. Students will gain insight into the social determinants of the human life course, including biological and sociodemographic dimensions of aging. Sociological theories and research methods in the field of aging, and the ways in which the aging experience is socially constructed will be explored. Students will examine how the U.S. will be challenged by "aging societies" and the effects of this change--positive and negative--for individuals, families, employers, community service provides, and public policy.

  • 310-001 | Torrez | ONLINE | CRN 82603

SOCI 312: Causes of Crime & Delinquency

A survey of criminological theories exploring why some people are more likely to engage in crime than others and why crime rates vary over time and space and across social groups. Attendant policy issues will also be discussed.

*Prerequisite required: SOCI 2120: Intro to Criminal Justice Systems  OR SOCI 2210: Sociology of Deviance

  • 312-001 | Ragan | TR 9:30-10:45 | FACE | CRN 68989
  • 312-002 | Ragan | TR 11:00-12:15 | FACE | CRN 77944

SOCI 340-001: Sociology of Medical Practice

An introduction to the delivery of health care in the U.S. and selected other countries is pursued with an emphasis on the interaction of patients, professionals and health care institutions.

  • 340-001 | Torrez | TR 11:00-12:15 | FACE | CRN 82601

SOCI 371: Sociological Theory

The study of how theory is constructed and applied by sociologists including traditions from 19th-century sociological founders and contemporary theoretical formulations.

*Prerequisite required: SOCI 1110: Intro Sociology

  • 371-001 | Weddington | TR 11:00-12:15 | FACE | CRN 68994
  • 371-002 | Goodman | MWF 10:00-10:50  | FACE | CRN 82602

SOCI 380: Intro to Research Methods

A survey of the major methods of social research: foundations of social research, research design, sampling and measurement, quantitative and qualitative research methods and data analysis.

*Prerequisite required: SOCI 1110: Intro Sociology

  • 380-001 | Ruiz-Negron | MWF 11:00-11:50 | Face | CRN 68998
  • 380-002 | Revilla | TR 02:00-03:15 | Face | CRN 68996
  • 380-003 | Goodman | ONLINE | CRN 82605

SOCI 381L-001: Sociological Data Analysis

Introduction to quantitative sociological data analysis using basic statistics (both descriptive and inferential) and to the use of statistical software to analyze empirical data.

*Prerequisite required: SOCI 380: Intro to Research Methods AND Math 1350: Intro Statistics

  • 381L-001 | Cumberworth | TR 11:00-12:15 & F 10:00-10:50 | Face | CRN 68999
  • 381L-002 | Cumberworth | TR 12:30-01:45 & F 11:00-11:50 | Face | CRN 82614

SOCI 398-001: ST: Future of Work & Inequality

  • Wilson | TR 09:30-10:45 | Face | CRN 82620

SOCI 410-001: Social Change & Popular Music

  • Goodman | MWF 11:00-11:50 | Face | CRN 82622

SOCI 412-001: Sociology of Police & Social Control

Sociology of Police and Social Control is the study of the relationship between society and law enforcement agencies, including the societal context of policing and how law enforcement impacts society. Discussion will include law enforcement practices, training, and management; the interface of police and communities; historical and contemporary models of policing; and efforts at police reform. 
This course is the study of police as an institution of social control. In this course we will chart the development of professional policing in the United Kingdom and the United States from night watchmen slave patrols to the community policing and the “militarization” of policing. We take a critical analytical lens of policing, noting the complexities in understanding its evolution as an instrument of powerful groups but also as a powerful force in society, in its own right. Guiding our discovery and discussions will be the importance the police play in maintaining and shaping the status quo—whatever it is—by managing, suppressing, and silencing dissenting voices in the public sphere.  
*Prerequisite required: Soc. 312 : Causes of Crime & Delinquency
  • Trujillo | MWF 03:00-03:50 | FACE | CRN 78175

SOCI 415-001: Inequality and Power

This course focuses on the contemporary dynamics of social inequalities and power in US society. It lays particular emphasis on racial, gender, and economic oppression while outlining how these intersect with other systems and institutions.

  • Ray | Online | CRN 75639

SOCI 419-001: Peers, Groups, and Gangs

  • Trujillo | MWF 04:00-04:50 | FACE | CRN 80173

SOCI 420: Race & Ethnicity

  • 420-001 | Weddington | TR 09:30-10:45  | FACE | CRN 80025
  • 420-002 | Lopez | ONLINE | CRN 82656 | 2nd Half Course

SOCI 424-001: Race, Class, & Crime

This course examines how incarceration and criminalization affect people along racial, ethnic, class, and gender lines. The class will explore historical and modern contexts of mass incarceration and punishment in the racialized U.S. context. This class will discuss contemporary research as it relates to race/ethnicity and criminal legal institutions, including the racialized contexts of modern criminal justice reforms.

  • Martensen | TR 03:30-6:45 | FACE | CRN 82624

SOCI 427-001: Sociology of Madness

Different historical and cultural frameworks for defining, making sense of, and responding to madness are examined. The social causes and social distribution of madness are critically examined. 

  • Barker | Arranged ONLINE | CRN 82657

SOCI 430-001: Seminar: Intersectionality Policy

  • Lopez | Arranged ONLINE| CRN 81671 | 2nd Half Course

Graduate Courses

SOCI 523: Pro-Seminar

Introduces incoming graduate students to one another, the department, the broad expectations and culture of the graduate program, and to each of the department’s regular faculty members and their work. Required for all incoming PhD students.

  • Thomas | F 10:00-10:50 | Face | CRN 69496

SOCI 524: Theories in Medical Sociology

This course examines some of the theoretical traditions and tools used in the subfield of the sociology of health and illness, also known as medical sociology. Medical sociology is often seen by the larger discipline of sociology as atheoretical. This critique is not entirely unfounded. However, this class is organized around some of the theoretical orientations that inform medical sociology. You will read some original theoretical texts, but many of the readings are examples of works that put sociological theory to use. In other words, although this class places an emphasis on theory, many of the readings foreground the important dialogue between theory and method.

  • Barker | TR 3:30-6:00 | Face | CRN 82629

SOCI 580: Methods of Social Research

This course is designed to provide an overview and critical assessment of sociological research methodology, including exposing students to many of the methods used by sociologists and their epistemological foundations. This course provides an overview of major research designs and techniques that are the core of contemporary empirical inquiry into social phenomena. The “methods” of the course title are practices that allow us to describe and draw inferences about human life from observations of it. Sociologists explore a variety of research questions and therefore the research strategies used by sociologists are diverse. The purpose of this course is to prepare graduate students to design, implement, and evaluate sociological research by supporting the development of knowledge, skills, and experience needed to prepare and complete research proposals, theses and dissertations, and publishable journal articles, as well as to critically read published sociological research. An important aspect of these processes is to formulate researchable sociological questions and to identify appropriate research designs, methodologies, and methods to answer these questions.

  • Bateman | W 3:30-6:30 | Face | CRN 80198

SOCI 581: Advanced Social Statistics I

Covers the statistical methods most commonly used in social science research, from basic descriptives to multiple regression. No prior statistical training is necessary, and the emphasis is on practical use in conducting social research.

  • Davis  | T 3:30-6:00 | Face | CRN 79149

SOCI 595: Crimmigration

This graduate seminar examines crimmigration, the convergence of criminal law and immigration enforcement, as a lens for understanding state power, punishment, and social inequality. Drawing on sociology of law, sociology of immigration, critical criminology, and critical race scholarship, the course explores how legal categories and enforcement practices—such as policing, detention, and localfederal collaboration—shape migrants’ lives and extend punishment beyond courts and prisons. Students will analyze the historical development, institutional mechanisms, and unequal impacts of crimmigration across race, class, gender, and legal status, with particular attention to the U.S. system, while also engaging with resistance, reform, and abolitionist approaches to immigration control.

  • Roman Alfaro | M 3:30-6 | Face | CRN 78047