CEA Course: Sociology

SOC310 OENOLOGY: THE HISTORY, CULTURE AND BUSINESS OF WINE

In this introductory survey and analysis of the history, culture and business of the French wine industry, practical knowledge and onsite experience help you understand and appreciate one of Europe’s oldest international, commercial, and gastronomic ventures. Wine topics include terroir, classifications, production, marketing, purchasing, government legislation, and tasting. Additional fee applies. Credits: 3

SOC314 FASHION! A MIRROR OF OUR TIMES

This course examines the role fashion plays in defining personal images and investigates how modern society perceives, produces and consumes fashion. The business of fashion, the sociology of style and identity, the history of design and designers, and the image of fashion as conveyed through contemporary media are all considered. Prerequisites: Introductory courses in sociology, business, cultural studies or with approval of the instructor. Language of instruction: English. Credits: 3. Cross listed as MKT334.

SOC320 CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON ITALY: CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY & CULTURE

This course provides you with an interactive experience of contemporary life in Italy, by exploring a range of defining features of this country and its people. In-class and on-site lectures will alert you to salient socio-political and cultural phenomena in current Italian life, triggering critical analysis and evaluation of your surroundings. In particular, you will observe and reflect on practices of identity formation, as these are expressed in class, gender, and community relations; political allegiance and conflict; cultural alignment or dissent; social solidarity and artistic innovation. Credits: 3 Also offered as: ANT320 Critical Perspectives on Italy: Contemporary Society & Culture

SOC321 SOCIAL MEDIA: DIGITAL IDENTITY & THE VIRTUAL COMMUNITY

This interactive course analysis the theory and practice of virtual communities and online social networks, requiring that you build and evaluate online communities. Drawing on Florentine companies and networks, it focuses on the meaning of community, networking, identity and journalism in the ever-changing social media world and asks how we participate in healthy communities in the age of many-to-many media. Prerequisites: None. Language of instruction: English. Credits: 3.

SOC322 GLOBAL HEALTH & HEALING

This interdisciplinary course surveys systems of health and healing across cultures and the divergent ideas about the nature and cause of illness. Study in a foreign city allows you to investigate experientially seminal institutions in the history of modern healthcare and medical science. Prerequisites: Two 100 or one 200 level courses in Sociology, Anthropology, or Health Sciences. Language of instruction: English. Credits: 3

SOC323 EXPLORING EUROPE: CULTURES, SOCIETIES & POLITICAL DYNAMICS

The course intends to enable you to know about the basics of the current sociological, cultural and political European reality through the analysis of the main European countries. Your personal journeys and field studies will allow you to approach in a more empirical way some of the more essential European aspects. Prerequisites: One two-hundred or two one-hundred level courses in the subject area of instruction. Language of instruction: English. Credits: 3. Cross Listed as POL 323.

SOC330 CULTURAL VALUES & STEREOTYPES: SPAIN & THE U.S.

This course delves beyond the simple comparative and practical approach to understanding stereotypes. It is designed to enhance overall intercultural competence and interpersonal/cultural communication between people of diverse cultures, with an emphasis on cultural identity, patterns, attitudes, values and nonverbal behaviors. Credits: 3

SOC331 SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY

This course explores the main theoretical contributions in the field of Social Psychology and explores contemporary examples and intercultural case studies of particular value to students studying abroad. The course is structured in six modules pertaining to the main areas of the discipline. Prerequisites: One course in General Psychology, General Sociology or equivalent. Language of instruction: English. Additional fees do not apply. Credits: 3 Cross listed a PSY 331

SOC351 GAY BUENOS AIRES: GENDER, SEXUALITY & THE CITY

Addressing contemporary issues of gender and sexuality in Argentina and using a variety of literary, theoretical and cinemagraphic sources, this course presents an overview of sexual politics and homosexuality and examines this subject in the context of Buenos Aires from the turn of the 20th century to the present. Prerequisites: One course in gender studies, sociology, history of Latin America, an equivalent course, or with the approval of the academic advisor. Language of instruction: English. Additional fees apply. Credits: 3.

SOC353 THE BUSINESS OF FOOD

This interdisciplinary course explores how contemporary production and consumption of world-sourced foods challenges the diet, nutrition, and health of world populations which, in turn, requires us to re-evaluate the local food choices we make as well as the ethical basis we use to make them. Prerequisites: Introductory courses in Business, Sociology, Politics, Global Studies, Environmental Sciences, Health Sciences, or Nutrition. Language of instruction: English. Credits: 3. Cross listed with BUS353.

SOC360FCO IMMIGRATION, RACE 7 IDENTITY IN CONTEMPORARY ITALY

The issue of immigration has recently come to the fore in Italy and Europe. As immigrants and refugees move ‘within’ and across borders, they incite an array of responses in different contexts and forms. Just as is happening in the U.S., discussions on migration meet in that discursive space where concepts like ‘home,’ ‘identity,’ ‘subjectivity,’ and ‘otherness’ need to be critically reconsidered in the light of past and contemporary events. Prerequisites: Two one-hundred or one two-hundred level course(s) in the subject area(s) of instruction. Language of instruction: English. Credits: 3. Cross listed as CUL360FCO.

SOC361 SPANISH YOUTH SINCE 1975: CHALLENGE & ACHIEVEMENT

This course examines expressions and representations of Spanish youth since the death of Franco in 1975 and surveys consequential social issues such as drug and alcohol use, housing, joblessness, political activism, education reform, and family life. The course employs popular culture, history, literature, film and sociological research to gain access to the heart and mind of Spain’s youth today. Prerequisites: None. Language of instruction: English. Credits: 3. Cross listed as CUL361.

SOC362 PARIS: CULTURE, IDENTITY & CITIZENSHIP IN THE CITY

This interdisciplinary course explores the challenges minority communities face in Paris and its suburbs as they strive to integrate into a secular state such as France and then evaluates how effectively they have been incorporated into the French political, economic, societal and cultural mainstream. Prerequisites: One introductory course in any of the above subject areas or with the approval of the instructor. Language of instruction: English. Credits: 3. Cross listed as CUL362.

SOC396 INTERNATIONAL SERVICE LEARNING: SOCIETY, INEQUALITY& SOCIAL EXCLUSION

This international service learning course focuses on social issues confronting globalized cities: social inequality and exclusion. Contributing to finding solutions to such endemic problems, you complete volunteer work at community-based organizations while simultaneously pursuing theoretical coursework and independent sociological research related to your service learning placement. Prerequisites: Two years of university study & advanced language skills in the host tongue. You must also provide a letter of motivation and an academic letter of reference in support of your participation in this course. Language of instruction: English and host language. Credits: 3.