Sociology

The course explores the doctrines and principles of English Criminal Law. It begins with an overview of the building blocks of criminal responsibility: the different forms of mens rea, the rules of causation, and the principles underlying the imposition of criminal responsibility. It then considers a number of different offences (including murder, manslaughter, grievous bodily harm, assault occasioning actual bodily harm, sexual offences, and property offences) and defenses (consent, self-defense, duress, and insanity).

The module introduces students to key themes of sociology. These themes are explored through theoretical and empirical analysis and examples. Students do this by examining some of the most important ideas of leading sociologists and critically engaging with their ideas through empirical illustrations.

This course takes an interdisciplinary approach to critical perspectives on terrorism. It draws upon a variety of critical sociology, criminology, and social psychology theories, interspersed with empirical evidence.

This course provides the knowledge and application of statistical methods in social research. Topics include populations and samples; frequency tables and graphs; measures of central tendency (mode, median, mean); distributions (variability, sampling means); inference (the normal curve, t distribution, chi-square distribution); standard error of estimates; hypothesis testing and interval estimation; the t's distribution and unbiased estimates; confidence interval using the t distribution; the chi-square test for fit and independence; the regression model; calculating the slope and Y intercept; estimating the regression line; using the regression equation for prediction; correlation as a descriptive technique and as inferential statistics.

Internet technologies play an important, often controversial, role in contemporary society, touching almost every aspect of our lives. Many dramatic, both dystopian and utopian, claims have been made about the transformative "effects" of these technologies. This course investigates these claims across different areas of life, technologies, and practices. It treats "the internet" not as one monolithic entity, but as a collection of at times disparate technologies, platforms, practices, and discourses that are co-evolving with rather than impacting on society. The course covers key themes, historical and contemporary, that have informed and challenged our understanding and assumptions about the interaction between the internet and society. This includes, but is not limited to: identity and subjectivity, social exclusion and inequality, politics and democracy, globalization and development, and privacy and surveillance. The course focuses on specific empirical case studies and technologies as well as theoretical and methodological questions on how to best study and conceptualize the role of internet technologies in society.

This course analyzes, from a sociocultural and political perspective, the concept of territory in the context of La Araucanía region and the Mapuche people. It examines the role of the educational system on local cultures, environmental and energy issues, intercultural relations, and the preservation of indigenous languages and ecosystems. This course explores the political and social processes of the Mapuche and their relationship with national society and public policies.

This course surveys the fundamentals of sociological techniques and methods of investigation, focusing on the way that sociological relations inform and transform our way of life. The course also focuses on different sociologists such as Norbert Elias and William Footewhyte to demonstrate the differences in sociological investigation in past and contemporary times.

This course focuses on sociological methods of inquiry and social groups such as professionals, the elite, women, and youth. The course evaluates these groups' electoral behaviors and provides a sociological analysis of political movements and parties.