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ANTHRO 390 Topics in Anthropology (1): Advanced work in areas of developing interest and special significance in anthropology. May be repeated for credit with change of topic.
MORS 424-1 The Individual and the Organization (1): Individual behavior in organizational settings. Topics include recent theory and research on social cognition, decision making, negotiation, groups, norms, fairness, and equity theory.
MORS 424-2 Social Processes in Organizations (1): Group behavior in organizational settings. Topics include recent theory and research on group formation, social influence, group composition, group performance, group decision making, diversity, coalitions, intergroup relations and social dilemmas.
MORS 425-1 Behavior in Organizational Systems (1): Theory construction, with effort at verification, drawing on empirical studies. Macro-level analysis of internal organizational system problems such as goals, structure, roles, power, authority, communications, and controls.
MORS 425-2 Organizations in Their Environments (1): Analysis of organizations in their environments, focusing on cross-cultural and cross-institutional research, the ecology, the way internal characteristics condition external relations, and the way environments influence internal processes.
MORS 426-0 Empirical Research in Organization Behavior: Methods and Practice (1): Preparation of studies and pilot testing of theories (in simulation form where applicable) in organization behavior. Primary emphasis on the methodology and practice of fieldwork.
MORS 427 Laboratory Experimentation with Organizations (1): The laboratory experiment as a method of learning about organizations. General theory of experimentation, methodological problems, ethical issues, and practical procedures. Design and pretesting of an experimental study.
SOCIOL 401-1 Statistical Analysis of Social Data: Applied Regression Methods I (1): Introduction to the theory, methods, and practice of linear regression analysis: descriptive statistics,analysis of variance, ordinary least squares (OLS), and regression diagnostics. STATA used for computation. For first-year graduate students in sociology.
SOCIOL 401-2 Statistical Analysis of Social Data: Applied Regression Methods II (1): Regression models with categorical and discrete outcomes: categorical variables, maximum likelihood estimation (MLE), probit and logistic regression, logit models, tobit models, and advanced STATA techniques. For first-year graduate students in sociology.
SOCIOL 406-1 Classical Theory in Sociological Analysis (1): Marx and Weber: comparison and contrasts of their theories. Also, theorists such as Lukacs and Gramsci, who combine elements from both.
SOCIOL 406-2 Modern Theory in Sociological Analysis (1): Major theorists after World War II. Functional theorists, symbolic interactionists, development theorists, the debate over consensus and conflict. The 1950s and 1960s as background for the social theory movements of the 1970s and 1980s.
SOCIOL 406-3 Contemporary Theory in Sociological Analysis (1): Contemporary approaches to important theoretical issues. Emphasizes the relationship between theory and current research. Content varies. Topics may include functionalism, neo-Marxism, rational action, feminism, or symbolic interactionism. May be repeated for credit with change of topic.
SOCIOL 408 Sociology of Law (1): Classical and modern theories of law. Modes of inquiry in sociolegal research. Patterns of legal development; comparisons among capitalist, socialist, customary, and indigenous legal systems. The relationship of law to social control, inequality, and social change. Social organization of legal institutions, including systems of dispute resolution and litigation, the legal profession, and regulatory and enforcement agencies.
SOCIOL 416 New Perspectives on Gender in Society (1): Importance of gender in paid work, feminist revisions of mainstream theory in the social sciences, gender and power, the roles of Third World women under colonialism and after independence, and the relationship of work to the family. Content varies. May be repeated for credit with change of topic.
SOCIOL 439 Comparative and Historical Sociology (1): Theoretical and methodological issues in the comparison of whole societies and other macrosocial units. Contrasts approaches that emphasize variables with those that emphasize cases (i.e., countries) and their histories. Content varies. May be repeated for credit with change of topic.
SOCIOL 440 Stratification, Race, and Gender (1): Issues in current research and theory in stratification, race, and gender. Content varies. May be repeated for credit with change of topic. For graduate students.
SOCIOL 441 Social Organization (1): Issues in research and theory in organizations, institutions, and social movements. Content varies. May be repeated for credit with change of topic. For graduate students.
SOCIOL 476 Topics in Sociological Analysis (1): Advanced areas of graduate student interest. Content varies. May be repeated for credit with change of topic.
SOCIOL 480 Introduction to the Discipline (0): Introduction to the department, faculty, and adjunct faculty. Faculty discuss their research and teaching interests. Mandatory two-quarter weekly seminar for first-year students.
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STAT 420-1,2,3 Advanced Statistics: Introduction to Statistical Theory and Methodology (1)(1)(1): First Quarter: Distribution theory, characteristic functions, moments and cumulants, random variables, sampling theory, and common statistical distributions. Second Quarter: Methods of estimation, hypothesis tests, confidence intervals, least squares, likelihood methods, and large-sample methods. Third Quarter: Theories of inference, multivariate methods, and contingency tables.
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