GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN RURAL PLACES

SOC 300

A sociological examination of race, class, gender and sexuality - four central axes of social stratification, identity and experience that have real consequences in people's lives, the opportunities they have, and the challenges they face. Topics include sociological perspectives on how identities and differences are socially constructed and reproduced, and how these categories manifest themselves in inequities in institutions such as schools, workplaces, housing, and the law.

C&ESOC/SOC 533

Sociological approaches to community, rural, and public health. Examines epidemiological evidence for and policy solutions to health issues that impact vulnerable populations in diverse geographic and social settings. Topics include mental health, environmental and occupational health, preventive care, substance abuse.

C&ESOC/GEN&WS/SOC 904

Advanced topics in the analysis of gender relations in society.

GEOG 513

Explores several key events, sites, thinkers, and texts that contribute to the social, personal, and intellectual landscapes of Queer Geographies. An invitation to survey and reflect on queer critical strategies that sample, record, and remix constellations of relationships between theory, space, sexuality, gender, and identity. It foregrounds modes of queer spacing and placemaking in academic and popular works devoted to queer lives, studies, sexualities, narratives, publics and privates, joys and griefs, art, theory, and beyond. Offers a range of strategies for reading, interpreting, and developing nuanced scholarly interventions and theories. Question and reimagine normative notions of the personal, the social, and the socio-spatial.

C&ESOC/SOC 945

Theory and research in alternate semesters in rural aspects of population, stratification, social change, and groups and institutions.