Introduction to Sociology
Major theoretical paradigms, core concepts and research methodologies. Sociological perspectives on contemporary problems in a Canadian, cross-cultural and global contexts.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Critical Thinking and Expression
Develop critical reading, thinking and expression skills identifying theoretical assumptions, assessing logic in arguments and evaluation of evidence. Finding sources, documentation, written expression and organizational skills in the context of article critiques, book reviews and library research papers.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to SOCI (single or combined) majors until date specified in BIRT guide.
Prerequisite: SOCI 1F90.
Note: students minoring in Sociology may register prior to date specified in BIRT guide. Contact the Department.
Introduction to Research Methods
Research techniques employed by sociologists, and the formulation of research designs appropriate to various kinds of intellectual problems in the social sciences, including the relationship between social theory and social research, the logic of research design, fundamental techniques of data collection and ethical issues in social research.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to SOCI (single or combined) majors until date specified in BIRT guide.
Prerequisite: SOCI 1F90 or permission of the instructor.
Note: students minoring in Sociology may register prior to date specified in BIRT guide. Contact the Department.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in SOCI 2F10.
Sexualities and Society
(also offered as WISE 2P20)
Topics may include the structuring of sexual identities, sexuality and inequality, legal and social regulation of sexuality and social justice issues.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to SOCI (single or combined) and WISE majors until date specified in BIRT guide.
Prerequisite: one of SOCI 1F90, WISE 1F90, 2P00 or permission of the instructor.
Note: students minoring in Sociology or Women's Studies may register prior to date specified in BIRT guide. Contact the Department.
The Family
(also offered as WISE 2P21)
Family patterns including gender roles and the dynamics of family change and development. Topics include marriage and family issues, gender role socialization and change, dual careers, alternative lifestyles, gender roles in cross-cultural perspective and marital and family relationships past, present and future.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to SOCI (single or combined) and WISE majors until date specified in BIRT guide.
Prerequisite: one of SOCI 1F90, WISE 1F90, 2P00 or permission of the instructor.
Note: students minoring in Sociology or Women's Studies may register prior to date specified in BIRT guide. Contact the Department.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in CHYS 3P38.
Education and Equity
Contemporary issues in education in Canada and globally. Topics may include implications of globalization, teacher education, teachers and professors as workers, equity issues (gender, race, sexuality, age and class), and efforts to alter curriculum and pedagogy (critical, feminist, anti-racist.)
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: SOCI 1F90 or permission of the instructor.
Problems and Possibilities in Economic Life
Topics may include the links between economic structure and social organization, ecological implications, and alternative ways of organizing material life to provide for needs such as gifts, bartering, the grey market, cooperatives, mutual aid associations, and democratic socialist planning.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to SOCI (single or combined) majors until date specified in BIRT guide.
Prerequisite: SOCI 1F90 or permission of the instructor.
Note: students minoring in Sociology may register prior to date specified in BIRT guide. Contact the Department.
In and Out of Work in the Global Economy
(also offered as LABR 2P32)
Examination of paid and unpaid work in industrialized and industrializing countries. Topics may include patterns of un/under employment, peripheral employment, home-working and worker resistance.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to SOCI (single or combined) and LABR majors until date specified in BIRT guide.
Prerequisite: SOCI 1F90 or LABR 1P91 and 1P92 or permission of the instructor.
Note: students minoring in Sociology may register prior to date specified in BIRT guide. Contact the Department.
Law and Social Justice
Examination of the complex relations between law, inequality and social change. Theoretical approaches to the sociology of law. The role of law in the differential distribution and relations of power along different points of disadvantage.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to SOCI (single or combined) majors until date specified in BIRT guide.
Prerequisite: SOCI 1F90 or permission of the instructor.
Note: students minoring in Sociology may register prior to date specified in BIRT guide. Contact the Department.
Trade Unions
(also offered as LABR 2P34)
Interdisciplinary approach to the study of trade unions. Economic, political and sociological understanding of the role of trade unions in society. May include an international comparative perspective.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: LABR 1P91 and 1P92 or permission of the instructor.
Childhood, Youth and Society
(also offered as CHYS 2P38)
Historical, cross-cultural and sociological perspectives on the relationship between childhood, youth and society. Topics include children and youth in schools, communities, popular culture and state policy.
Lectures, seminar/lab, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to CHLH, CHYS BA/BEd and CHYS (single or combined) majors until date specified in BIRT guide.
Prerequisites: SOCI 1F90 and CHYS 1F90.
Socialization
Development of shared meanings of symbols and commonly accepted forms of behaviour. Sources of influence including parents, peers and television; studies of variations in patterns of socialization both within Canada and transnationally.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to SOCI (single or combined) majors until date specified in BIRT guide.
Prerequisite: SOCI 1F90 or permission of the instructor.
Note: students minoring in Sociology may register prior to date specified in BIRT guide. Contact the Department.
Documentary Film
(also offered as COMM 2P54 and FILM 2P54)
History, theory, aesthetics and cultural implications of documentary film and other media.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week; plus weekly film lab.
Prerequisite: one of SOCI 1F90, COMM 1F90, FILM 1F94 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in SOCI (COMM/FILM) 2F54.
Interpersonal Communication
(also offered as COMM 2P55)
Perspectives on human communication including verbal and non-verbal communication.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to SOCI (single or combined) and COMM (single and combined) majors until date specified in BIRT guide.
Prerequisite: SOCI 1F90 or COMM 1F90 or permission of the instructor.
Note: students minoring in Sociology may register prior to date specified in BIRT guide. Contact the Department.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in RECL 3P14.
Aging and the Life Course
Research, from a life course perspective, on aging in Canada and internationally. Topics may include cultural, social class and gender differences in aging and the impact of aging on industrialized countries.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to SOCI (single or combined) majors until date specified in BIRT guide.
Prerequisite: SOCI 1F90 or permission of the instructor.
Note: students minoring in Sociology may register prior to date specified in BIRT guide. Contact the Department.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in SOCI 3P57.
Introduction to Criminology
Criminology as a scientific discipline: historical development of major schools of criminology, the development of criminal laws. Topics may include methodological problems in the study of crime, victimization and selected types of criminal activity.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to SOCI (single or combined) majors until date specified in BIRT guide.
Prerequisite: SOCI 1F90 or permission of the instructor.
Note: students minoring in Sociology may register prior to date specified in BIRT guide. Contact the Department.
The Criminal Justice System
Administration and operation of the Canadian criminal justice system. The flow of offenders through the system and the roles of police, courts and corrections in processing offenders. The degree to which the administration of justice is an interactive process. Identification of inequities in the Canadian criminal justice system.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to SOCI (single or combined) majors until date specified in BIRT guide.
Prerequisites: SOCI 1F90 and 2P61 or permission of the instructor.
Note: students minoring in Sociology may register prior to date specified in BIRT guide. Contact the Department.
Liberties, Rights and Protections
Theoretical and empirical issues of civil liberties and human rights in criminological perspective. Topics may include criminalization and criminal justice; security, surveillance and control; international crimes; persecution and protection.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to SOCI (single or combined) majors until date specified in BIRT guide.
Prerequisite: SOCI 1F90 or permission of the instructor.
Note: students minoring in Sociology may register prior to date specified in BIRT guide. Contact the Department.
Social Class and Social Conflict
Classical and contemporary approaches to the study of social class. Topics may include class relations and class conflict, elites, social mobility, poverty and social marginalization, the Canadian class structure in comparison to other industrialized nations.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to SOCI (single or combined) majors until date specified in BIRT guide.
Prerequisite: SOCI 1F90 or permission of the instructor.
Note: students minoring in Sociology may register prior to date specified in BIRT guide. Contact the Department.
Globalization, Inequality and New World Disorders
Global spread of capitalism, historical origins and perpetuation of underdevelopment, the destruction of traditional societies and environmental impact. Socio-economic structures and political institutions of selected Third World countries and their relationships to metropolitan, industrialized power centres.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to SOCI (single or combined) majors until date specified in BIRT guide.
Prerequisite: SOCI 1F90 or permission of the instructor.
Note: students minoring in Sociology may register prior to date specified in BIRT guide. Contact the Department.
Social and Cultural Anthropology of the Contemporary World
Anthropological perspectives on current global issues through geographically diverse ethnographic case studies.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to SOCI (single or combined) majors until date specified in BIRT guide.
Prerequisite: SOCI 1F90, 1P80 (2P82) or permission of the instructor
Note: students minoring in Sociology may register prior to date specified in BIRT guide. Contact the Department.
Animals and Human Society
Relationships between animals and human societies from various theoretical perspectives. Topics may include cultural attitudes, symbolism, social meanings, animal rights, animals as food, entertainment and models for human societies, experimentation, environmental issues and related matters.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: SOCI 1F90 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in SOCI 2V85.
Women in the Economy
(also offered as CANA 2P86, ECON 2P86, LABR 2P86 and WISE 2P86)
Women in the Canadian labour market. Topics include the allocation of time between the household and the labour market, gender segregation in the work place, how earnings are determined, causes of occupational and earnings difference by gender, the role of investment in education and discrimination, recent developments in the labour market and their impact on women and men, selected policy issues.
Lectures, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: students must have a minimum of 4.0 credits.
Ethnicity
(also offered as WISE 2P90)
Diverse theoretical perspectives on the intersecting locations of women in terms of sexuality, class, ethnicity and other expressions of social inequality. Classic feminist perspectives as applied to these issues and related social policies.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: WISE 1F90 or permission of the instructor.
Directed Studies I
Topic, readings and methods of evaluation chosen in consultation with a faculty member willing to supervise the student.
Restriction: permission of the instructor.
Note: consultation is done prior to enrolment. A written agreement is to be signed by the Chair and filed in the Department.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in SOCI 2V90-2V99.
Directed Studies II
Topic, readings and methods of evaluation chosen in consultation with a faculty member willing to supervise the student.
Restriction: permission of the instructor.
Note: consultation is done prior to enrolment. A written agreement is to be signed by the Chair and filed in the Department.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in SOCI 2V90-2V99.
Women and Development
(also offered as WISE 2P96)
Examination of the major social consequences of the theoretical paradigms of development (economic development, sustainable development and women/gender in development). Feminist analyses of theoretical, practical knowledge and debates on diverse experiences of women living in the non-industrial world.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: WISE 2P90 or permission of the instructor.
Canadian Women in a Global Context
(also offered as WISE 2P99)
Social, political, economic and cultural issues. Topics may include rights of Aboriginal women, reproductive rights and ethics, marginalization of immigrant women, activist movements and the impact and inadequacy of government policy.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: WISE 2P90 or permission of the instructor.
Issues and Patterns
(also offered as WISE 2Q90)
Motherhood as it is theorized/analyzed in interdisciplinary feminist scholarship and portrayed in women's fictional or autobiographical writings and art forms. The historical, socio-cultural, psychological, political and philosophical meanings of motherhood, mothering roles. Class, cultural and racial differences in mothering and motherhood.
Lectures, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: one of SOCI 1F90, WISE 1F90, 2P00.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in SOCI (WISE) 2V99.
Selected Topics in Sociology
Issues in sociology.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to SOCI (single or combined) majors until date specified in BIRT guide.
Introduction to Early Modern Social Theory
Central ideas of the social sciences, their intellectual origin and their change over time. The works of major social philosophers from the 18th and 19th centuries as well as classical sociological theorists.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to SOCI (single or combined) majors until date specified in BIRT guide.
Prerequisite: SOCI 1F90.
Note: students minoring in Sociology may register prior to date specified in BIRT guide. Contact the Department.
Contemporary Social Theory
Major contemporary perspectives of society including functionalist, Marxist, neo-Marxist, cultural, symbolic interactionist; feminist, critical race, post-structural, queer and post-colonial theories. Theoretical origins and development in historical context, their assumptions, conceptual distinctions, methodological features and ethical implications.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to SOCI (single and combined) majors until date specified in BIRT guide.
Prerequisite: SOCI 3P00 or permission of the instructor.
Note: students minoring in Sociology may register prior to date specified in BIRT guide. Contact the Department.
Applied Quantitative Data Analysis
Advanced quantitative methods of data analysis focusing on the development and application of technical skills, including data processing, accessing public information systems, multivariate analysis and advanced regression techniques.
Lectures, lab, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to SOCI (single and combined) majors until date specified in BIRT guide.
Prerequisites: SOCI 1F90, 2P11 and 2P13 (2F10) or permission of the instructor.
Note: students minoring in Sociology may register prior to date specified in BIRT guide. Contact the Department.
Mass Media
(also offered as COMM 3P16 and PCUL 3P16)
Introduction to methods of media analysis. Comparison of theoretical and methodological approaches to mass media content, structures, institutions and audiences. Analysis of relations among media, culture and society with reference to Canadian examples.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to SOCI (single or combined), COMM (single or combined), PCUL (single or combined) and FILM (single or combined) majors with a minimum of 9.0 overall credits.
Prerequisite: one of SOCI 2P11 and 2P13 (2F10), COMM 2F50, 2P21 or permission of the instructor.
Culture
Growth of queer communities and their influence on popular print, audio and visual media. Topics may include gays and Hollywood, gays and the fashion industry, international gay games, gays and the theatre, and gays and cyberspace.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to SOCI (single or combined) majors until date specified in BIRT guide.
Prerequisite: SOCI 1F90 or permission of the instructor.
Note: students minoring in Sociology may register prior to date specified in BIRT guide. Contact the Department.
Medical Sociology
(also offered as CHSC 3P26)
Social factors associated with physical health, illness and impairments; health care delivery systems and the factors which influence their utilization.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to SOCI (single or combined) and CHSC majors until date specified in BIRT guide. Students must have a minimum of 8.0 overall credits.
Prerequisite: SOCI 1F90, CHSC 1F90 or permission of the instructor.
Note: students minoring in Sociology may register prior to date specified in BIRT guide. Contact the Department.
Psychiatric Sociology
(also offered as CHSC 3P27)
Social factors associated with psychiatric illness; increased utilization of social science theory and research in the field of psychiatry.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to SOCI (single or combined) and CHSC majors until date specified in BIRT guide. Students must have a minimum of 8.0 overall credits.
Prerequisite: SOCI 1F90, CHSC 1F90 or permission of the instructor.
Note: students minoring in Sociology may register prior to date specified in BIRT guide. Contact the Department.
Complex Organizations
(also offered as LABR 3P31)
Research on the nature of complex organizations using theories such as those of the French Regulation school. The formal and informal aspects of organizational roles; how morale, motivation, work discipline and conflict are regulated, feminist critiques of the traditional literature.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to SOCI (single or combined) and LABR majors until date specified in BIRT guide.
Prerequisite: SOCI 1F90 or LABR 1P91 and 1P92 or permission of the instructor.
Note: students minoring in Sociology may register prior to date specified in BIRT guide. Contact the Department.
Law and Social Regulation
Legal, administrative and moral regulation of deviant, risky or otherwise undesirable populations and the production of desirable citizens.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to SOCI (single or combined) majors until date specified in BIRT guide.
Prerequisites: SOCI 1F90 and 2P33 or permission of the instructor.
Note: students minoring in Sociology may register prior to date specified in BIRT guide. Contact the Department.
Information Technology and Work
(also offered as LABR 3P34)
Application of information technology to the labour process. Topics include the relationship of this technology to the number and types of jobs available, to the total hours worked over a lifetime and to the increased importance given to education and work.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to SOCI (single or combined) and LABR majors until date specified in BIRT guide.
Prerequisite: SOCI 1F90 or LABR 1P91 and 1P92 or permission of the instructor.
Note: students minoring in Sociology may register prior to date specified in BIRT guide. Contact the Department.
Critical Issues in Contemporary Society
Social problems in advanced industrial societies and Canada in particular. Focus on social problems stemming from economic and political crises. Topics may include unemployment, regionalism, ethnic/racial conflict, sovereignty, nationalism, concentrated economic power, and state and market. Proposed strategies of remedial social change.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to SOCI (single or combined) majors until date specified in BIRT guide.
Prerequisite: SOCI 1F90 or permission of the instructor.
Note: students minoring in Sociology may register prior to date specified in BIRT guide. Contact the Department.
Gender and Sexuality in Childhood and Youth
(also offered as CHYS 3P44 and WISE 3P44)
Historical, cross-cultural and sociological approaches to the development of gender identities and sexuality amongst children and youth. Topics include the role of families, schools, peers and state policies in such processes.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to SOCI (single or combined), CHYS BA/BEd, CHYS (single or combined), and WISE majors until date specified in BIRT guide. Students must have a minimum of 8.0 overall credits.
Prerequisite: one of SOCI 2P11 and 2P13 (2F10), CHYS 2P38, WISE 2P90, 2P91.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in SOCI (CHYS/WISE) 3P92.
Aboriginal Peoples and Canadian Society
(also offered as ABST 3P46)
Relationship between Canada's Aboriginal peoples and selected institutions in Canadian society such as education, industry and government. Topics include the European impact on indigenous culture, the conflict between traditional life styles and Canadian institutions and the responses of Aboriginal peoples.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to SOCI (single or combined) majors until date specified in BIRT guide.
Prerequisite: SOCI 1F90 or permission of the instructor.
Note: students minoring in Sociology may register prior to date specified in BIRT guide. Contact the Department.
Racism and Anti-Racism
Topics may include theoretical, historical and comparative perspectives on the structuring of racial and ethnic identities, ethnic and racial privilege and oppression and anti-racist struggles.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to SOCI (single or combined) majors until date specified in BIRT guide.
Prerequisite: SOCI 1F90 or permission of the instructor.
Note: students minoring in Sociology may register prior to date specified in BIRT guide. Contact the Department.
Gender and Society
(also offered as WISE 3P51)
Gender as an organizing principle in society. The social construction of masculinity and femininity from historical and cross-cultural perspectives. Focus on gender in principal institutions of Canadian society: economy, state, family, education and military. Issues include men and women in non-traditional occupations, women in the military, gender and power.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to SOCI (single or combined) and WISE majors until date specified in BIRT guide.
Prerequisite: one of SOCI 1F90, WISE 1F90, 2P00 or permission of the instructor.
Note: students minoring in Sociology or Women's Studies may register prior to date specified in BIRT guide. Contact the Department.
Issues in Documentary Film
(also offered as COMM 3P54 and FILM 3P54)
Advanced studies in selected aspects of documentary film and other media.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week; plus weekly film lab.
Prerequisite: SOCI 2P54.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in SOCI (COMM/FILM) 2F54.
Women and Aging
(also offered as WISE 3P58)
Examination of women's socially constructed experience of aging in Canada and internationally. Topics may include older women and poverty, aging women and the paid labor force, agism and women, violence against older women, older women and disability.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to SOCI (single or combined) and WISE majors or minors until date specified in BIRT guide.
Prerequisite: one of SOCI 1F90, WISE 1F90, 2P00 or permission of the instructor.
Note: SOCI 2P57 recommended. Students minoring in Sociology or Women's Studies may register prior to date specified in BIRT guide. Contact the Department.
Sociology of Punishment
Major sociological approaches to punishment in modern society. Critical assessment of the structure and policies of Canadian correctional institutions. Sentencing, rehabilitation, prisoners' rights, special populations, subcultures, penal reform, pre-trial detention and community sanctions (probation, fines, community service and parole).
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to SOCI (single or combined) majors until date specified in BIRT guide.
Prerequisite: SOCI 2P61 or permission of the instructor.
Note: students minoring in Sociology may register prior to date specified in BIRT guide. Contact the Department.
Youth Justice System
Critical assessment of the youth justice system and the philosophy underlying separate treatment.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to SOCI (single or combined) majors until date specified in BIRT guide.
Prerequisites: SOCI 1F90, 2P61 and 2P62 or permission of the instructor
Note: students minoring in Sociology may register prior to date specified in BIRT guide. Contact the Department.
Crime Prevention and Security
Critical exploration of contemporary efforts to prevent crime, produce order and enhance security through decentralized and proactive initiatives. Conceptions of risk, order and disorder, community, and security through examination of topics that may include gated communities, crime stoppers, community policing, urban planning and design, private policing, regulation of public space and surveillance technologies.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to SOCI (single or combined) majors until date specified in BIRT guide.
Prerequisite: SOCI 2P61, 2P62, or permission of the instructor.
Note: students minoring in Sociology may register prior to date specified in BIRT guide. Contact the Department.
Policing Society
Examination of the nature, structure and roles of policing in society emphasizing history of policing in Canada, and its public and private forms. Key legal, social and political issues relating to policing and law enforcement. Topics may include accountability, discretion, police powers, decentralization, private policing, policing protests and global policing.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to SOCI (single or combined) majors until date specified in BIRT guide.
Prerequisite: SOCI 2P61, 2P62 or permission of the instructor.
Note: students minoring in Sociology may register prior to date specified in BIRT guide. Contact the Department.
Social Movements
(also offered as LABR 3P66)
General survey of the impact of ideology on behaviour and the subsequent development of social movements or specific examinations of particular movements such as separatism, nationalism, fascism, Marxism or feminism.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to SOCI (single or combined) and LABR majors until date specified in BIRT guide.
Prerequisite: SOCI 1F90 or LABR 1P91 and 1P92 or permission of the instructor.
Note: students minoring in Sociology may register prior to date specified in BIRT guide. Contact the Department.
Social Justice Research
Exploration of social justice issues through a critical reading of original case studies including theoretical perspective, methodological approach, findings and implications.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to SOCI (single or combined) majors until date specified in BIRT guide.
Prerequisite: SOCI 1F90 or permission of the instructor.
Note: students minoring in Sociology may register prior to date specified in BIRT guide. Contact the Department.
The State and Society
The state as a social, economic, political and ideological institution emphasizing Canada. Topics may include theories of the state (such as Marxist, liberal, and feminist); welfare and post-welfare state theory; state power in a global context; and selected case studies of states, public policy and social justice.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to SOCI (single or combined) majors until date specified in BIRT guide.
Prerequisite: SOCI 1F90 or permission of instructor.
Note: students minoring in Sociology may register prior to date specified in BIRT guide. Contact the Department.
Family Conflict and Violence
(also offered as CHYS 3P83)
Conflict within modern family relationships. Considerations include contemporary research on spousal violence, power and decision-making, sexual abuse and child abuse. Socio-historical factors that contribute to increased family stress. Institutional and interpersonal strategies for reducing family conflict.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to SOCI (single or combined), CHYS BA/BEd and CHYS (single or combined) majors until date specified in BIRT guide. Students must have a minimum of 8.0 overall credits.
Prerequisite: SOCI 1F90 or permission of the instructor.
Note: students minoring in Sociology may register prior to date specified in BIRT guide. Contact the Department.
Directed Studies III
Topic, readings and methods of evaluation chosen in consultation with a faculty member willing to supervise the student.
Restriction: permission of the instructor.
Note: topics must be chosen in consultation with a faculty member prior to enrolment. A written agreement is to be signed by the Chair and filed in the Department.
Directed Studies IV
Topic, readings and methods of evaluation chosen in consultation with a faculty member willing to supervise the student.
Restriction: permission of the instructor.
Note: topics must be chosen in consultation with a faculty member prior to enrolment. A written agreement is to be signed by the Chair and filed in the Department.
Media and Minorities
(also offered as COMM 3P93 and PCUL 3P93)
Relations between mass media and minority groups in society including dominant representations and stereotypes of cultural, racial and sexual minorities and minority group access to alternative forms of media production.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: one of SOCI 2P11 and 2P13 (2F10), COMM 2F50, 2P21 or permission of the instructor.
Internet Research for the Social Sciences
Primary components of Internet research: determination of appropriate data, search for sites containing these data and methods of collection and processing Web data.
Lectures, lab, tutorial, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to SOCI (single or combined) majors until date specified in BIRT guide.
Prerequisite: SOCI 2P11 and 2P13 (2F10) or permission of the instructor.
Note: students minoring in Sociology may register prior to date specified in BIRT guide. Contact the Department.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in SOCI 3V99.
Selected Research Topics
Selected methodological issues in sociology.
Lectures, lab, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to SOCI (single or combined) majors until date specified in BIRT guide.
Selected Topics in Sociology
Selected issues in sociology.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to SOCI (single or combined) majors until date specified in BIRT guide.
Honours Seminar
Examination and assessment of problems in research.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to SOCI (single or combined) majors with a minimum 80 percent major average and approval to year 4 (honours) or permission of the Department.
Prerequisites: SOCI 3P01 and 3P12.
Co-requisite: SOCI 4F90.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in SOCI 4P01.
Honours Thesis
Students electing this option will be required to undertake an independent research project under the supervision of a member of the department.
Restriction: open to SOCI (single or combined) majors with a minimum 80 percent major average and approval to year 4 (honours) or permission of the Department.
Prerequisites: SOCI 3P01 and 3P12.
Co-requisite: SOCI 4F01 (4P01).
Note: the results of the project will be presented as a thesis.
Honours Practicum
Student electing this option typically will serve as a research associate with a local social service agency. Exact nature of projects will vary with the agency; however, the faculty director, agency supervisor and student will negotiate a mutually acceptable set of expectations.
Restriction: open to SOCI (single or combined) majors with a minimum 75 percent major average and approval to year 4 (honours) or permission of the Department.
Prerequisites: SOCI 3P01 and 3P12.
Selected Topics in Social Theory
Selected topics in early or late modern theory and theoretical sociology. In-depth explorations of specific theoretical paradigms, philosophies of social science, theoretical research programs, or comparative analysis of alternative or contending theoretical strategies or projects.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to SOCI (single or combined) majors until date specified in BIRT guide. Students must have approval to year 4 (honours).
Prerequisites: SOCI 3P00 and 3P01.
Note: students minoring in Sociology may register prior to date specified in BIRT guide. Contact the Department.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in SOCI 3P02.
Analysis
Topics may include an introduction to ANOVA, multiple regression, regression diagnostics, surveys, structural equation modelling and various computer software programs.
Lectures, lab, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to SOCI (single or combined) majors until date specified in BIRT guide. Students must have approval to year 4 (honours).
Prerequisite: SOCI 3P12 or permission of the instructor.
Note: students minoring in Sociology may register prior to date specified in BIRT guide. Contact the Department.
Research Design for Policy and Planning
Relationship between theoretical analysis and research methods as a practical task mphasis on applied topics such as evaluation research and needs assessment, areas of study which are important to social policy and planning.
Lectures, seminar, 4 hours per week.
Restriction: open to SOCI (single or combined) majors until date specified in BIRT guide. Students must have approval to year 4 (honours).
Prerequisite: SOCI 3P12 or permission of the instructor.
Note: students minoring in Sociology may register prior to date specified in BIRT guide. Contact the Department.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in SOCI 4F10.
Advanced Critical Analysis
Focus on the particular research project of the instructor. Topics include research design, critical literature review, theoretical assumptions, data collection, evidence, analysis and implications.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to SOCI (single or combined) majors until date specified in BIRT guide. Students must have approval to year 4 (honours).
Note: students minoring in Sociology may register prior to date specified in BIRT guide. Contact the Department.
Equity
Selected issues in education in Canada and globally. Topics may include access, representation, experience, and careers of students, teachers and faculty; student cultures; student supervision; efforts to alter pedagogy and curriculum; and implications of globalization.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to SOCI (single or combined) majors until date specified in BIRT guide. Students must have approval to year 4 (honours).
Note: SOCI 2P22 recommended. Students minoring in Sociology may register prior to date specified in BIRT guide. Contact the Department.
Research on Popular Culture
(also offered as COMM 4P23 and PCUL 4P23)
Advanced research seminar on the relations between mass media and popular culture. Topics vary with the interests of instructor and students.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to SOCI (single or combined), COMM (single or combined) or PCUL (single or combined) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) or permission of the instructor.
Prerequisite: SOCI 3P16, COMM 2P20 or permission of the instructor.
Advanced Seminar in Health
(also offered as CHSC 4P26)
Selected social policy issues in medical sociology, psychiatric sociology or related sub disciplines. Topics may include the politics of individualizing health problems, clinical sociology and related topics.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to SOCI (single or combined) and CHSC majors until date specified in BIRT guide. Students must have approval to year 4 (honours).
Prerequisite: one of SOCI 3P26, 3P27, CHSC 3F20 or permission of the instructor.
Note: students minoring in Sociology may register prior to date specified in BIRT guide. Contact the Department.
Advanced Seminar in the Sociology of Work
(also offered as LABR 4P32 and WISE 4P32)
Theoretical and research developments in the sociology of work. Topics may include the impact of technological innovation on the labour process, reconceptualizations of work and leisure, changes in the gendered nature of work, the role of the contemporary labour movement and international perspectives on labour and the labour force.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to SOCI (single or combined), LABR and WISE majors until date specified in BIRT guide. Students must have approval to year 4 (honours).
Prerequisites: two SOCI or LABR credits or permission of the instructor.
Note: SOCI 2P32 recommended. Students minoring in Sociology or Women's Studies may register prior to date specified in BIRT guide. Contact the Department.
Advanced Seminar in Law and Society
Specific relationships between Canada's legal institutions and social structure and institutions; law and Aboriginal peoples, family and gender issues, environment, work and technology, feminist critique of legal theory and practice.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to SOCI (single or combined) majors until date specified in BIRT guide. Students must have approval to year 4 (honours).
Prerequisite: SOCI 3P33 or permission of the instructor.
Note: students minoring in Sociology may register prior to date specified in BIRT guide. Contact the Department.
Issues in Childhood, Youth and Society
(also offered as CHYS 4P38)
Canadian and international research on childhood and youth in changing societies. Topics include the globalization of childhood and youth, child labour, child welfare and Canadian policy.
Lectures, seminar/lab, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to SOCI (single or combined) and CHYS (single or combined) majors with a minimum of 14.0 overall credits and approval to year 4 (honours).
Prerequisite: one of SOCI 3P92, CHYS 3P23, 3P38 (2P91), 3P44 (3P92), 3P91, 3Q33 (3Q93), 3Q94.
Advanced Seminar in Social Policy
Canadian and international social policy issues. Topics may include aboriginal peoples, women and public policy, labour relations, health care delivery, multiculturalism, Canadian federalism, family policy.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to SOCI (single or combined) majors until date specified in BIRT guide. Students must have approval to year 4 (honours).
Prerequisites: SOCI 3P00 and 3P01 or permission of the instructor.
Note: students minoring in Sociology may register prior to date specified in BIRT guide. Contact the Department.
Advanced Seminar in Racism and Anti-Racism
Topics may include current theoretical perspectives on racism, ethnicity and anti-racism; Canadian and global perspectives on the articulation of racism with other forms of privilege and inequality; and anti-racist struggles for social justice and equity.
Lectures. seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to SOCI (single or combined) majors until date specified in BIRT guide. Students must have approval to year 4 (honours).
Prerequisite: SOCI 1F90.
Note: SOCI 3P47 recommended. Students minoring in Sociology may register prior to date specified in BIRT guide. Contact the Department.
Advanced Seminar in Gender and Society
(also offered as WISE 4P51)
Selected issues in gender and society. Topics may include feminist theories, work, family, state, popular culture, race, militarism and violence.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to SOCI (single or combined) and WISE majors until date specified in BIRT guide. Students must have approval to year 4 (honours).
Prerequisites: two SOCI or WISE credits or permission of the instructor.
Note: SOCI 3P51 recommended. Students minoring in Sociology may register prior to date specified in BIRT guide. Contact the Department.
Sociology of Knowledge
Knowledge as a social product; the cultural and temporal variations in knowledge as causal and as limiting factors in human behaviour.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to SOCI (single or combined) majors until date specified in BIRT guide. Students must have approval to year 4 (honours).
Prerequisites: two SOCI credits or permission of the instructor.
Note: SOCI 3P00 or 3P01 recommended. Students minoring in Sociology may register prior to date specified in BIRT guide. Contact the Department.
Advanced Topics in Criminal Justice
Topics may include critical perspectives on law and social control, feminist perspectives on law and criminology and the politics of law and criminal justice.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to SOCI (single or combined) majors until date specified in BIRT guide. Students must have approval to year 4 (honours).
Prerequisites: SOCI 2P61, 2P62 and 3P61 or permission of the instructor.
Note: students minoring in Sociology may register prior to date specified in BIRT guide. Contact the Department.
Advanced Seminar in Social and Moral Regulation
Topics may include critical theoretical perspectives on deviance, moral regulation and the politics of social control.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to SOCI (single or combined) majors until date specified in BIRT guide. Students must have approval to year 4 (honours).
Prerequisites: SOCI 2P33; one credit from SOCI 2P61, 2P62, 3P33 or permission of the instructor.
Note: students minoring in Sociology may register prior to date specified in BIRT guide. Contact the Department.
Social Issues in the Community
Organizational responses, resistance strategies, constraints on social action and policy alternatives.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to SOCI (single or combined) majors until date specified in BIRT guide. Students must have approval to year 4 (honours).
Note: students minoring in Sociology may register prior to date specified in BIRT guide. Contact the Department.
Advanced Seminar on Animals and Human Societies
Sociology of animal-human interaction. Topics may include exploration of animal-human bonds and boundaries; theoretical arguments on the nature of animal rights; ethical treatment of animals; animals and the law; representation of animals; and cultural meanings of animals.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to SOCI (single or combined) majors until date specified in BIRT guide. Students must have approval to year 4 (honours).
Note: SOCI 2P85 recommended. Students minoring in Sociology may register prior to date specified in BIRT guide. Contact the Department.
Directed Studies V
Topic, readings and methods of evaluation chosen in consultation with a faculty member willing to supervise the student.
Restriction: open to SOCI (single or combined) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) and permission of the instructor.
Note: consultation is done prior to enrolment. A written agreement is signed by the Chair and filed in the Department.
Directed Studies VI
Topic, readings and methods of evaluation chosen in consultation with a faculty member willing to supervise the student.
Restriction: open to SOCI (single or combined) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) and permission of the instructor.
Note: consultation is done prior to enrolment. A written agreement is signed by the Chair and filed in the Department.
Selected Research Topics
Selected methodological issues in sociology. Advanced methods for the measurement of variables and the analysis of data in the social sciences emphasizing the implications of various theoretical categories of data, multiple approaches to the estimation of reliability and validity and the use of computer-assisted analytic procedures.
Seminar, lab, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to SOCI (single or combined) majors until date specified in BIRT guide. Students must have approval to year 4 (honours).
Note: students minoring in Sociology may register prior to date specified in BIRT guide. Contact the Department.
Special Topics in Sociology
Selected issues in sociology. Course content will vary, depending upon the interests of instructors and students.
Restriction: open to SOCI (single or combined) majors until date specified in BIRT guide. Students must have approval to year 4 (honours).
Note: students minoring in Sociology may register prior to date specified in BIRT guide. Contact the Department.