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Featured Courses
SOCY 4132: Gender, Islam, and Modernity
Why is Islam stereotyped as oppressing women? Why do many Muslim women veil? What do Muslims think about women's rights? What does it mean to be a Muslim man or woman in the contemporary world? The rights, roles, and appearances of Muslim women have been the focus of intense debates in recent years.
SOCY 4160: Designing Social Innovations
As part of a larger campus initiative to make CU Boulder the nation’s top university for innovation, a new course is being offered this fall on Designing Social Innovations. The course is intended for undergraduate students who are passionate about developing viable solutions to some of society’s most complex and pressing problems.
SOCY 1021: U.S. Race and Ethnic Relations
Race, ethnicity, and immigration are on the minds of many Americans. Whether it is immigration reform, the Black Lives Matter movement, proposals to ban certain religious groups from the U.S., sports team mascots, or Halloween costumes, debates about the continuing significance of race and ethnicity swirl all around us.
News & Announcements
Leslie Irvine gave the keynote address at the regional conference of HOPE Animal-Assisted Crisis Response in Colorado Springs on Sunday, September 10. HOPE is a national non-profit organization with specially trained handlers and dogs trained and tested for crisis response work. Leslie's talk was titled "Animals--and their People--in Disasters: Insights from Sociology."
Huge congratulations to Team Sociology as they rode in The Buffalo Bicycle Classic this past weekend- participating as it has since the first BBC in 2003. The team was represented this year by Laurent Cilia, Jason Boardman, Simon Mollborn (12), Benjamin Mollborn (14), and Fredrik Mollborn. Laurent’s race fees were supported by contributions from Lori Hunter and Jane Menken.
Ryan Masters, Andrea Tilstra, and Dan Simon in Bloomberg: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-09-11/which-came-first-the-opioids-or-the-despair
Lori Peek is quoted in the Christian Science monitor:
https://www.csmonitor.com/EqualEd/2017/0911/Post-Katrina-lessons-for-Harvey-s-returning-students
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Featured Faculty
Jason Boardman
Jason Boardman's research focuses on the social determinants of health with an emphasis on the gene-environment interactions related to health behaviors. He teaches undergraduate and graduate-level courses in statistics, social demography, and the sociology of race and ethnicity.
Christina Sue
Christina Sue's research is in the areas of comparative race/ethnicity, race mixture/multiracialism, Latino/a integration, immigration, and gender, with a regional focus on Latin America and the United States. In 2013 she published Land of the Cosmic Race: Race Mixture, Racism, and Blackness in Mexico.