Teaching
Undergraduate courses
Women and Crime (Socio 665)This is an upper-division undergraduate/graduate course dealing with a selected topic within the broad spectrum of criminology: women and crime. We will deal with three topics over the course of the semester. First, we will look at women as offenders, both from an empirical and a theoretical perspective. By and large, mainstream criminological theory has tended to ignore women, or has seen them as somehow pathological for NOT engaging in the number and variety of crimes men commit. We will then look at women's experiences as victims, focusing specifically on violence in social context. Finally, we will look at women's experiences as workers in the legal/criminal justice system.
Sociology of Work (Socio 647)
This is an upper division undergraduate/graduate course in the study of work. We will examine three broad topics: the social organization of work, current work trends, and inequalities at work.
Graduate courses
Seminar in Gender Differentiation and Stratification (Socio 833)This course is a graduate level seminar on the study of gender in sociology, with a particular focus on issues of race, class and sexuality. We begin the course by examining the intersection of race, gender and class in the both waves of the women’s movement and by surveying the current theoretical landscape. We then examine intersectionality in a variety of contexts, from the state, to family, to sexuality.
Qualitative Research Methods (Socio 824)
This aim of this course is to teach you how to conduct qualitative research in the social sciences. The course outlines major sociological debates about qualitative methods and explores issues of theory and types of methodologies. The primary emphasis, however, is on a hands-on approach. The objectives of this course are (1) to examine the philosophy and epistemology of qualitative methods, (2) to understand various approaches to qualitative research, (3) to develop the skills to design a qualitative research project, to gather and analyze qualitative data, and to write up qualitative findings. Sessions in this course will usually be divided into two parts. Part of the course will be conducted as a seminar - members discuss assigned reading materials. Each session will also include a task component. Class members will review and comment on all stages of classmates’ research in progress.
I have taught a range of other courses in the past, but these syllabi are getting a bit out of date so I have retired them.