Sociology Department

Chair: Eréndira Rueda(2026/27); Light Carruyo (2025/26);

Professors: Carlos Alamo (and Dean of the College), Pinar Batur, Diane Harriford, William Hoynes, Seungsook Moon, Leonard Nevarez, Eréndira Rueda, Catherine Tan;

Associate Professors: Light Carruyo;

Assistant Professors: Stephane Andrade^a, Abigail Coplin^a;

Adjunct Assistant Professor: Darlene Deporto.

^a On leave 2026/27, first semester

^b On leave 2026/27, second semester

Advisers: The department.

Programs

• Sociology Major

• Sociology Correlate Sequence

Courses

• SOCI 111 - Social Change in South Korea Through Film
• SOCI 112 - The House is on Fire!: Climate Change, Society and Environment
• SOCI 113 - Feminism, Life Narratives, and the Sociological Imagination
• SOCI 151 - Introductory Sociology

• SOCI 204 - Rural Sociology
• SOCI 207 - Commercialized Childhoods
• SOCI 209 - Understanding the World through Korean Popular Culture
• SOCI 210 - Domestic Violence
• SOCI 214 - Transnational Perspectives on Women and Work
• SOCI 216 - Food, Culture, and Globalization
• SOCI 220 - Post-Human Sociology
• SOCI 229 - Black Intellectual History
• SOCI 232 - Accessing the Ivory Tower
• SOCI 237 - Urban Sociology
• SOCI 238 - Data and Society
• SOCI 239 - Feeling the Present: Affect and Emotion in Contemporary Social Life
• SOCI 240 - The International Social Life of Science and Technology
• SOCI 241 - Reality and Impact: Systemic Racism
• SOCI 242 - Who Cares?
• SOCI 246 - Sociology of Music
• SOCI 247 - Modern Social Theory: Classical Traditions
• SOCI 252 - Health Inequalities and Activism
• SOCI 253 - Children of Immigration
• SOCI 254 - Research Methods
• SOCI 255 - Medical Sociology
• SOCI 259 - Social Stratification
• SOCI 261 - “The Nuclear Cage”: Environmental Theory and Nuclear Power
• SOCI 263 - Criminology
• SOCI 265 - News Media in the United States
• SOCI 266 - Racism, Waste and Resistance
• SOCI 271 - Body, Solidarity, and Argentine Tango
• SOCI 272 - Critical Approaches to Media and Popular Culture
• SOCI 273 - The New Economy
• SOCI 275 - Transnational Childhoods
• SOCI 281 - The Family
• SOCI 290 - Community-Engaged Learning
• SOCI 295 - Critical Reading of South Korea Film
• SOCI 298 - Independent Work

• SOCI 300 - Senior Thesis
• SOCI 301 - Senior Thesis
• SOCI 307 - Visualizing Feminist Sociology
• SOCI 312 - Corporate Power
• SOCI 321 - Feminism, Knowledge, Practice
• SOCI 330 - Death and Birth
• SOCI 340 - Food Fights
• SOCI 347 - Asian Sociotechnical Imaginaries
• SOCI 356 - Culture, Commerce, and the Public Sphere
• SOCI 365 - Class, Culture, and Power
• SOCI 368 - Toxic Futures: From Social Theory to Environmental Theory
• SOCI 369 - Masculinities: Global Perspectives
• SOCI 371 - Fake News: Truth and Media in the Post-Fact Society
• SOCI 374 - Urban Ethnography
• SOCI 375 - Unaccompanied Migrant Children
• SOCI 382 - Community Engaged Research: Theory and Practice
• SOCI 386 - Ghetto Schooling
• SOCI 399 - Senior Independent Work