The Program in Social Analysis
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The Program in Social Analysis
seeks to engage students with ways the social sciences conceptualize
and work toward providing answers to questions concerning human
cognition, social interactions, and social institutions. The purpose
of such courses is to help students develop their analytic skills
and familiarize students with some of the basic empirical findings
in the social sciences. Each course in the program is expected
to examine one or more substantive areas with an appropriate combination
of theory, empirical content, and methods.
By theory is meant the
basic concepts and general statements that inform a particular
mode of social or cognitive inquiry. By empirical content
is meant detailed attention to one or more structural domains
such as family and kinship organization, language, political institutions,
and the economy. By method is meant several things: research
design, techniques for acquiring data, techniques for analyzing
data, and the procedures--logical, conceptual, and quantitative--by
which theory is related to and illuminates some aspect of social
life and human behavior.
The program includes both introductory survey courses that explore the basic foundations of a discipline and more specialized courses that address particular topics in the social science disciplines.
S = Courses of Instruction
AFRICAN AND AFRO-AMERICAN
STUDIES
AAAS 5a
Introduction to African and
Afro-American Studies
AAAS 80a
Economy and Society in Africa
AAAS 125a
Political Change in Afro-American
Communities
AAAS 126b
Political Economy of the Third
World
AAAS 167a
African and Caribbean Comparative
Political Systems
AAAS 175a
Comparative Politics of North
Africa
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AMERICAN STUDIES
AMST 10a
Foundations of American Civilization
AMST 150b
The Family in the United States
AMST 175a
Violence in American Life
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ANTHROPOLOGY
ANTH 1a
Introduction to the Comparative
Study of Human Societies
ANTH 20b
The Development of Human Food
Production
ANTH 83b
Fieldwork
ANTH 142a
AIDS in the Third World
ANTH 156a
Power and Violence: The Anthropology
of Political Systems
ANTH 157a
Families and Households
ANTH 158a
Urban Anthropology
ANTH 175a
Reading Ethnography
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ECONOMICS
ECON 2a
Introduction to Economics
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LINGUISTICS
LING 100a
Introduction to Linguistics
LING 150b
Introduction to Cognitive Science
LING 181b
Language and Human Nature
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POLITICS
POL 10a
History of Political Thought
POL 11b
Introduction to Comparative
Government: Europe
POL 14b
Introduction to American Government
POL 15a
Introduction to International
Relations
POL 128a
The Politics of Revolution:
State Violence and Popular Insurgency in the Third World
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PSYCHOLOGY
PSYC 1a
Introduction to Psychology
PSYC 101b
The Psychology of Adult Development
and Aging
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SOCIOLOGY
SOC 2a
Introduction to Sociological
Theory
SOC 6b
American Society: The Democratic
Promise
SOC 114b
Modern Capitalism: Society
and Economy
SOC 161a
Society, State, and Power:
The Problem of Democracy
SOC 177b
Aging in Society