Graduate

Provides a theoretical foundation for the study of international migration from a variety of perspectives relevant to sociological concerns. Examines the historical trends of migration waves and the factors which influence these movements. Students will read a variety of texts from different disciplinary and theoretical traditions including (but not limited to) neoclassical economics, world systems, transnational, post-colonial, and diasporic studies.

Provides a theoretical foundation and overview of scholarship in the sociology of sexualities. Emphasis is on significant primary sources of the 20th century which have shaped current discourse on normative and non-normative sexualities.