The Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Courses in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology introduce students to a range of issues and perspectives essential to developing critical analyses of contemporary world events. This includes how individuals, people in families, large and small groups, and entire cultures live, think, and interact. Introductory courses offer a broad overview of the complexity of world cultures and American society. Advanced courses provide an in-depth focus on particular world areas, social institutions, and significant social trends.
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Course Waiver Requests: If you are requesting a prerequisite waiver or an overtally waiver for an undergraduate class, you must first contact the instructor. If the instructor grants permission to register for the course, forward the entire email exchange to Kristin.Sommer@baruch.cuny.edu. Please cc: Jonathan.Portee@baruch.cuny.edu and the instructor. No waiver requests will be considered without instructor permission.
For questions about degree requirements, course selection, progress toward graduation, or applying to graduate programs, please contact the Department Academic Advisor: Gregory.Snyder@baruch.cuny.edu.
Sociology
Sociological Theory
- Demonstrate familiarity with and ability to apply major paradigms of classical and/or contemporary sociological theory.
Sociological Imagination
- Deploy the sociological imagination to examine and analyze the effects of social structure on individual life chances.
Research Methodologies
- Describe and apply sociological research methodologies.
Inequality
- Apply sociological approaches to analyze patterns of inequality, including stratification of gender, race, class, nationality, disability, age, religion and sexual orientation.
Global Context
- Analyze contemporary US society within the global context.
Anthropology
Critical Analysis
- Perform through analysis of scholarly articles and texts representing a wide range of intellectual styles and methods to improve students’ reading comprehension and critical thinking skills.
Cultural Methods
- Practice some of the methodological and conceptual techniques used in Cultural Anthropology and apply them to various present and past cultures to gain a nuanced, comparative understanding of cultural diversity.
Self-Reflection
- Understand the cultural and historical forces that have helped shape them as students, citizens, and human beings.
Place-Culture Dynamics
- Understand the ways in which place shapes culture and culture shapes place.
Intercultural Engagement
- Practice using anthropological skills that allow them to productively engage with people who are different from them.
Applied Anthropology
- Apply the lessons of Cultural Anthropology to their own future life plans.