Spring 2023

Undergraduate Course Offerings

Goodman | TR 12:30-1:45 | FACE | CRN 50849

SOCI 1110-001: 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.

Olson | MWF 10:00-10:50 | FACE | CRN 50850

SOCI 1110-002: Intro Sociology

Torrez | TR 11:00-12:15 | FACE | CRN 58023

SOCI 1110-003: Intro Sociology

TBA | TR 2:00-2:50 | FACE | CRN 58471

SOCI 1110-004: Intro Sociology

Torrez | TBA | Online | CRN 59407

SOCI 1110-005: Intro Sociology

Torrez | TBA | Online | CRN 50854

SOCI 1110-007: Intro Sociology

Sabbath | Online | CRN 57055

SOCI 2120-002: Intro Criminal Justice Systems

Prerequisite: Sociology 1110 [SOC 101], or consent of the instructor. This course focuses on the study of crime, the criminal justice systemand 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.

Sabbath | Online | CRN 50868

SOCI 2120-003: Intro Criminal Justice Systems

TBA | MWF 11:00-11:50 | Face | CRN 50873

SOCI 2210-001: 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.

Lyons | TR 11:00-12:15 | Face | CRN 58025

SOCI 2210-002: Sociology of Deviance

Castillo | T 4-6:30 | Online | CRN 57584

SOCI 2315-002: 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.

Hernandez | TR 2-3:15 | Face | CRN 58450

SOCI 305-001: Environmental Sociology

Examination of humans and the environment from an ecological perspective. Focus on industrial and economic growth, natural resources development, environmental values and movements, resource management, and comparative perspective on people’s relationship to the environment.

Park | TR 12:30-1:45 | Face | CRN 55456

SOCI 310-001: Sociology of Aging and the Aged

This course is designed to introduce gerontology, which is the scientific study of the social, psychological, and biological aspects of aging. Among the topics of interest to social gerontologistsare family relationships, health, economics, retirement, widowhood, and care of the frail elderly. Students will draw on sociological literature on aging to critically examine: 1) how aging is influenced by gender roles, culture, sexuality, social class and ethnicity; 2) the importance of understanding the aging body as a social construct; 3) how physical aspects of society (environment, buildings, transportation) and technology influence the experience of aging; and 4) the sociological impact of aging successfully with disability and/or illness.

Torrez | Arranged | Online | CRN 58363

SOCI 310-002: Sociology of Aging and the Aged

In this course we 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 US 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.

Ragan | TR 2-3:15 | Face | CRN 55455

SOCI 312-001: 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.

Painter-Davis | Arranged | Online | CRN 56222

SOCI 312-002: Causes of Crime & Delinquency

Painter-Davis | Arranged | Online | CRN 56224

SOCI 312-003: Causes of Crime & Delinquency

Thomas | TR 11-12:15 | Face | CRN 55453

SOCI 325-001: Couples, Family, & Friendship

An overview of sociological research on the strongest social relationships and primary social groups: those of love, family and friendships.

Fullenkamp | Arranged | Online | CRN 56384

SOCI 340-002: 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.

Goodkind | MW 9-10:45 | Face | CRN 55450

SOCI 347-001: Health & Social Inequalities II

This service-learning course provides students the opportunity to apply knowledge about social inequalities and health to working with community members to create change that improves health and reduces health disparities.

Ray | W 9-10:45 | Face | CRN 55449

SOCI 371-001: Sociological Theory

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

Goodman | TR 2-3:15 | Face | CRN 55448

SOCI 371-002: Sociological Theory

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

Goodman | MWF 10-10:50 | Face | CRN 55447

SOCI 380-001: 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.

TBA | TR 11-12:15 | Face | CRN 58444

SOCI 380-002: 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.

Park | TR 3:30-4:45 & W 12-12:50 | Face | CRN 55335

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.

Davis | Arranged | Online | CRN 56380

SOCI 381L-002: 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.

Goodman | MWF 11-11:50 | Face | CRN 56238

SOCI 398-002: ST: Pop Music & Social Change

This upper-division special topics course in Sociology examines the intersection of popular music (as a social artistic expression) and cultural, social, and political change (via social/cultural/political movements and drifts). Music is more than just entertainment: it both reflects and influences prevailing and subversive cultural currents within a given social context. Our goal in this course is to understand where music situates within the broader social world, how it interacts withvarious groups, institutions, and publics, and how it can reflect, influence, and attempt to resist broader social change. We will explore key moments or critical junctures of American social development / change and the related constructions and experiences of popular music as a means to explore how societies change and how those changes are driven by a variety of social, political, economic, and cultural forces. Music exists as a cultural object and is thus an element in the broad network of social processes of a given place, time, and experience. We will explore the social construction of popular music, not its quality or (necessarily) its practical production: this isn’t a course in music theoryor appreciation. Expectations are of high-level undergraduate work in Sociology, first and foremost. Prerequisite: Sociology 101 or equivalent.

Candelaria | MWF 12-12:50 | Face | CRN 58495

SOCI 398-003: ST: Latin American Thought

Goodkind | Arranged | CRN 55438

SOCI 398-007: ST: Health and Inequalities Lab

This course is the first in a two-semester sequence of research, intervention, and advocacy methods. The overall sequence is designed toprovide you with an opportunity to develop the skills and ideas necessary to be an effective social change agent with and for the refugeeor immigrantfamily with whom you work.You will learn how to be a successful advocate, how to foster and facilitate adultlearning, and you will sharpen your empathy and communication skills
plus gain valuable experience interacting with diverse individuals and settings within the community. This project will be beneficial not only to the families we serve, but to you, the advocate, as well.

Olson | TR 11-12:15| Face | CRN 58477

SOCI 412-001: Sociology of Police and 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. Discussionwill include law enforcement practices, training,and management; the interface of police and communities; historical and contemporary models of policing; and efforts at police reform. Prerequisites: Soc. 312

Olson | TR 9:30-10:45 | Face | CRN 56125

SOCI 414-001: Sociology of Corrections

The UNM Catalog describes the course as the “Study of the perspectives of corrections, its relationship to other criminal justice agencies, various forms sentencing and punishment, corrections administration and issues in the field.”This course is a selective study of the field of penology that focuses on how we think about punishment and how we punish.Particular attention is given to theoretical frameworksthat put the statistical and personal realities of incarceration into workable discourses.

Olson | MWF 11-11:50 | Face | CRN 55436

SOCI 416-001: Sociology of Law

Social science perspectives of the law, legal institutuions and the impact of law on behavior. Topics include theories of law a legality; comparitive legal systems; lawyers, judges and juries; and the use of social science in the courts. Prerequisite: 312 or 371.

Wilson | TR 9:30-10:45 | Face | CRN 58480

SOCI 420-001: Race & Inequality

These days, talk of race is everywhere: in our social media and entertainment feeds, on the news, and threaded intoour casual conversations with friends and family. One does not need to be an expert to know that the tone and content of this talk varieswidely in differentcircles, challenging our ability to separate fact from fiction and thinkclearlyabout the complex issues surrounding race.This upper-division sociology class examinesrace, ethnicity,and social inequalityin contemporary society. By surveying the latest sociologicalresearch on these topics, students will learn about howracecontinues to bea fundamental feature of oursocialstructure anda key force ofsocial inequalityin our society. While we will focus mostly on U.S. perspectiveson these topics, students will also gain perspective on how categories of raceand ethnicity functionin societies around the globe.

Lyons | TR 12:30-1:45 | Face | CRN 58481

SOCI 424-001: Race, Class, & Crime

Black, Latinx, Native American/American Indian and other “non-White” Americans are over-represented in criminal legal institutions in this country. We examine this well-established phenomenon in U.S. society, focusing on two broad and sometimes competing explanations for racial and ethnic disparities in crime and justice. The first explanation is that racial and ethnic groups are exposed differentially to “criminogenic” factors that lead to criminal involvement because of contemporary and historical racialized structural racism and inequality. We explore this premise during the first part of the course. A second, and often alternative, explanation is that the criminal legal system—beginning with the definition of what constitutes crime and continuing through the process of arrest, trial, and sentencing— is subtly if not explicitly racially and classed biased. Drawing on contemporary research and theory, we will explore the premise of systemic bias during the second half of the course. In the process of comparing and contrasting these explanations, we will gain a more sophisticated understanding of the complex historical, social, economic, and political forces shaping the relationships between race/ethnicity, class, crime, and punishment in the U.S.

Barker | Arranged | Online | CRN 56225

SOCI 427-001: Sociology of Madness

What is madness? How do we as society understand mental illness? Are the “mad” deviants or blameless patients? Correspondingly, how do we respond to the “mad” and those we now call mentally ill?This course explores different historical frameworks for defining, making sense of, and responding to madness. Contemporary understandings of mental illness focus overwhelmingly on biological explanations, often ignoring the social-cultural factors that shape the understanding, distribution, and experience of mental distress.By adopting a critical sociological perspective, this course interrogates common“biomedical” assumptions regarding mental illness.Specific attention is devoted to exploring historical conceptualizations and policies toward madness, criticallyassessing the medicalization of madness in contemporary American society, and attending to the social experience of madness in these different periods and contexts.Together these undertakings examine the social construction of madness.This course alsoidentifies the social causes and social distribution of madness.Thesematters are rooted firmly in the tradition of medical sociology and its commitment to exploring the social factors that shape health and illness. No Required Prerequisites.

Olson | Arranged 12-12:50 | Face | CRN 55431

SOCI 488-001: Field Observation & Experience

As the course name states, this course is both a field observation and an opportunity to gain experience in the field, in the form of an intership or working in the community. It is designed to help students make the connection between the academic setting of the university and the activist, corporate, government, and service settings in the larger community. It is a step in the direction of practicing sociology outside of the classroom. Think of yourselves as ethnographers, participant observers, and, above all else, storytellers. Students will spli their time between a one-hour classroom discussion of fieldwork methods and working in the field throughout the semester. Students will draw on classroom material in coducting their own analysis and interpretations of their experiences on the way to developing that story of your ornganization.

Graduate Course Offerings

SOCI 581: Advanced Social Statistics I

Jack Thomas

Tuesdays & Thursday 9:30-10:45 AM

CRN 58483

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.

SOC 585: Qualitative Research Methods

Maricarmen Hernández

Mondays 5:00-7:30 PM

CRN 58449

Intensive practicum on research fieldwork, including research design, human subjects review, the ethics/politics of fieldwork, and fieldwork implementation. Focuses on ethnographic and interview methods; some attention to focus groups and archives.

SOC 595: Criminological Theory

Daniel Ragan

Wednesdays 2:00-4:30 PM

CRN 56178

Overview of mainstream criminological theory, focusing on its origins as well as developments and advancements over time. Students will critically evaluate key theories and core constructs in criminology.

SOC 595: Theories in Medical Sociology

Kristin Barker

Tuesdays 4:00-6:30 PM

CRN 56179

This course examines some of the theoretical traditions and tools used in the subfield of the sociology of health, illness and the body, also known as medical sociology. Medical sociology is often seen by the larger discipline of sociology as atheoretical. This critique is not entirely unfounded. This class foregrounds some of the many theoretical concepts and orientations that inform medical sociology. You will read some original theoretical texts, but most of the readings are examples of works that put sociological theory to use.