Course Schedule
Race and Ethnic Relations (SOC 206)
Fall 2019
Frank Ha, PhD
Syllabus, Part 2. Course schedule
This is the tentative course schedule. Modifications to this schedule will be announced.
Required and recommended articles will be added as the course progresses.
Readings marked recommended are optional. You will not be required to read those articles for the exams. However, material from these recommended articles covered in the lecture notes or on the discussion forums, you are responsible for.
Here is a link to the semester calendar
Week 1, Day 1
Introductions and overview of the course
Week 1, Day 2
Rankism
Week 2
Introduction to ethnic relations
Research Methods
Week 3
The history of race
Week 4
Week 5
Ethnicity and politics
Week 6
Ethnicity and economics
Week 7
Week 8
Ethnicity and housing
Week 9
Ethnicity and criminal justice
Week 10
Week 11
Ethnicity and education
Week 12
Ethnicity and Aesthetics
Week 13
Midterm 4
Week 14
Chapter 9: Associations
Lecture (Slides)
Week 15
Ethnicity and intimate life
Week 16
Social Action
Week 17
Student Presentations
Week 18
Final Exam