Steven Epstein's Courses and Syllabi



I will be away on leave for the 2008-09 academic year, and I will not be teaching any classes.



Syllabi from courses offered in past years

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Undergraduate courses:

CGS 2A: Introduction to Critical Gender Studies: Social Movements

Soc 30: Science & Society

Soc 40: Sociology of Health Care Issues

Soc 87 (Freshman Seminar): The Politics of Illness

Soc 100: Sociological Theory

Soc 119: Sociology of Sexuality and Sexual Identities

Soc 130: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies (co-taught with Judith Halberstam)

Soc 192 (Senior Seminar): Sexual Citizenship


Graduate seminars:

Soc 201A: Classical Sociological Theory I

Soc 201B: Classical Sociological Theory II

Soc 202: Contemporary Sociological Theory

Soc 234: Intellectual Foundations of the Sociology of Science, Technology, and Medicine

Soc 255A: Science Studies Introductory Seminar (co-taught with Sandy Mitchell)

Soc 255B: Science Studies Core Seminar: Knowledge, Practice, and Values in Biomedicine (co-taught with Jerry Doppelt)

Soc 255B: Science Studies Core Seminar: Formal and Informal Knowledge (co-taught with Chandra Mukerji)

Soc 255B: Science Studies Core Seminar: Health and Disease (graduate seminar co-taught with Lisa Cartwright)

Soc 290: Sociology of Health, Illness, and Biomedicine

Soc 290: Sociology of Sexuality

Soc 290: Science, Technology, and Social Movements

ETHN 262: Race, Inequality, and Health (co-taught with Nayan Shah)