Featured Course: Death and Dying

“The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero To understand the end is to be able to understand life. SOCY 359: Death and Dying (which is co-offered as EHS 345) will help you do this, as well as grasp the concept of death itself. SOCY 359/EHS 345 explores the way death has played a part in the past and […]

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Featured Course: Race and Ethnic Relations

SOCY 321: Race and Ethnic Relations

  Today in the United States, we celebrate Beyonce as Queen Bey and have elected a black man to be president twice. At the same time, however, movements like #OscarsSoWhite and #BlackLivesMatter have sparked a nationwide conversation about race and equality. These contrasting examples of success and failure embody how complex discrimination, inequality, and racism are deeply seeded in our nation’s […]

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