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In 1994, John Gleeson became one of the youngest federal district court judges in the United States (US District Court for the Eastern District of New York). Before that, he worked as an assistant US attorney for the Eastern District of New York. In that role, he was the lead attorney in the prosecution of John Gotti, the former boss of the Gambino crime family. Gleeson now teaches seminars on complex federal investigations and federal sentencing law.  

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Ronald Goldstock has served as head of the Rackets Bureau in the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, as inspector general of the US Department of Labor, and for 13 years as director of the New York State Organized Crime Task Force. He is an internationally renowned expert on organized crime.  

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United States Magistrate Judge James Orenstein is a former partner in the litigation group at Baker & Hostetler. He is also a former deputy chief of the Organized Crime and Racketeering Section for the Eastern District of New York.

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Sociology (2022 - 2024).

Courses are open to all interested students, and have no prerequisites unless otherwise specified.

Introduction to Sociological Analysis

Introduction to Sociology SOC-UA 1 Offered every semester. 4 points. Survey of the field: its basic concepts, theories, and research orientation. Provides the student with insights into the social factors in human life. Topics include social interaction, socialization, culture, social structure, stratification, political power, deviance, social institutions, and social change.

Sociological Theory

Sociological Theory SOC-UA 111 Offered every semester. 4 points. Detailed analysis of the writings of major social theorists since the 19th century in both Europe and America. Theorists studied may include: Tocqueville, Marx, Durkheim, Weber, Simmel, Freud, Mead, Parsons, Merton, Goffman, Habermas, Giddens, Foucault, Bourdieu, or others.

Methods of Inquiry Cluster 

Research Methods SOC-UA 301 Offered every semester. 4 points. Studies the relationship between the sociological question addressed and the method employed. Topics: survey design and analysis, unobtrusive measures, historical sociology, interviews, content analysis, and participant observation. Introduction to quantitative data processing.

Statistics for Social Research SOC-UA 302 Satisfies College Core Curriculum requirement in Quantitative Reasoning. Offered every semester. 4 points. Introduces students in the social sciences (sociology, anthropology, political science, and metropolitan studies) to the logic and methods of descriptive and inferential statistics. Deals with univariate and bivariate statistics and introduces multivariate methods. Problems of causal inference. Computer analysis.

Law, Deviance, and Criminology Cluster

Law and Society SOC-UA 413 Identical to LWSOC-UA 1. Offered every year. 4 points. Sociological perspectives on law and legal institutions: the meaning and complexity of legal issues; the relation between law and social change; the effects of law; uses of law to overcome social disadvantage. Topics: "limits of law," legal disputes and the courts, regulation, comparative legal systems, legal education, organization of legal work, and lawyers' careers.

Deviance and Social Control SOC-UA 502 Identical to LWSOC-UA 502. Offered every year. 4 points. How statuses and behaviors come to be considered deviant or normal; theories of causation, deviant cultures, communities, and careers. Functioning of social control agencies. The politics of deviance. Consideration of policy implications.

Criminology SOC-UA 503 Identical to LWSOC-UA 503. Offered every year. 4 points. The making of criminal laws and their enforcement by police, courts, prisons, probation and parole, and other agencies. Criminal behavior systems, theories of crime and delinquency causation, victimization, corporate and governmental crime, and crime in the mass media. Policy questions.

Sex, Gender, and the Family Cluster

Sex and Gender SOC-UA 21  Offered every year. 4 points. What forms does gender inequality take, and how can it best be explained? How and why are the relations between women and men changing? What are the most important social, political, and economic consequences of this "gender revolution"? Examines a range of theories about gender in light of empirical findings about women's and men's behavior.

Sex and Love in Modern Society SOC-UA 23 4 points. Topics: dating and romantic relationships; relational and casual sex; contraception and unintended pregnancy; heterosexual, gay, lesbian, and bisexual sexualities; cultural attitudes toward sexuality; and changing meanings of marriage. Students engage with research on the topic and learn how social scientists draw conclusions from data analysis.

The Family SOC-UA 451  Offered every year. 4 points. Topics: What is the relationship between family life and social arrangements outside the family (in the workplace, the economy, the government)? How is the division of labor in the family related to gender, age, class, and ethnic inequality? Why and how have families changed historically? What are the contours of contemporary American families, and why are they changing?

Sexual Diversity in Society SOC-UA 511 4 points. Explores the social nature of sexual expression and past and contemporary explanations for sexual variation. Heterosexuality, homosexuality, bisexuality, transvestism, transgenderism, incest, sadomasochism, rape, prostitution, and pornography. Origin of sexual norms and prejudices. Lifestyles in the social worlds of sexual minorities. Problems of sexual minorities in such institutions as religion, marriage, polity, economy, military, prison, and law.

Groups and Inequalities Cluster

Social Networks SOC-UA 131  4 points. Social life in its different forms, from the delicate equilibrium of triadic relation to the chaotic dynamic of a crowd, emerges from the interdependent behavior of multiple actors. Studying the web of relationships in which individuals and groups are embedded leads to understanding of important collective dynamics (such as interpersonal influence, social diffusion, the origin of social norms, group cohesion and intergroup conflict, political participation, and market exchange). 

Race and Ethnicity SOC-UA 135 Prerequisite (effective spring 2023 and thereafter): Introduction to Sociology (SOC-UA 1). Offered every year. 4 points. The social meaning of the concept "race." Theories on sources of prejudice and discrimination. Considers the changing place of minority groups in the stratification structure, cultural patterns of various minority groups, acculturation and assimilation, social consequences of prejudice, and theories and techniques relating to the decline of prejudice and discrimination.

Blacks in American Society SOC-UA 136 4 points. Topics include: why economic and political progress for African Americans seems to coincide with certain historical events (such as war); how African Americans found a way to resist over 300 years of racial oppression to demand rights collectively; and how early patterns of economic, social, and political inequality contribute to contemporary patterns of inequality in wealth and access to power and privilege.

Wealth, Power, Status: Inequality in Society SOC-UA 137 4 points. Topics include: concepts, theories, and measures of inequality; race, gender, and other caste systems; social mobility and social change; institutional supports for stratification, including family, schooling, and work; political power and the role of elites; and comparative patterns of inequality, including capitalist, socialist, and postsocialist societies.

Immigration SOC-UA 452  Offered every two years. 4 points. Provides an introduction to contemporary immigration to the United States, rooted in socio-behavioral science and placed in the context of immigration since the start of the Republic. Reviews U.S. law and policy governing immigration, and then examines the characteristics and behavior of foreign-born—especially immigrant—persons in the United States.

Political and Economic Sociology Cluster

Social Policy in Modern Societies SOC-UA 313 4 points. Controversies and research concerning the development of welfare states and public social provision. Special attention to the U.S. public social spending system in historical and comparative perspective. Developments in social policies and an assessment of their applicability to the American welfare state and those of other societies.

Economy and Society SOC-UA 384  4 points. Sociological perspectives on economic behavior. How economic concepts are socially constructed and culturally and historically specific. Difficult questions: Can we negotiate and purchase intimacy, love, or friendship? What is the relationship between money and morality?

American Capitalism in Theory and Practice SOC-UA 386 Offered every year. 4 points. How capitalist democracy affects the distribution of goods, rights, and powers. Asks whether capitalist markets are efficient and whether market outcomes serve the ends of democracy and justice. Explores how efficiency can conflict with justice and how just institutions can in turn have a beneficial impact on efficiency.

Capitalism and Democracy  SOC-UA 388 Offered every year. 4 points. Is there a deep mutuality between capitalism and liberal democracy, or are market institutions and their effects corrosive to the culture and the practice of democratic politics? We assess arguments on both sides and examine both the historical record of the capitalism-democracy relationship and its current dynamics.

Politics, Power, and Society  SOC-UA 471 4 points. Topics include: the iron law of oligarchy, theoretical and empirical considerations of democracy, totalitarianism, mass society theories, voting and political participation, the political and social dynamics of advanced and developing societies, and the political role of intellectuals.

Terrorism and Political Violence in the Modern World SOC-UA 474 Offered every two years. 4 points. How and for what purposes has the idea of “terrorism” been conceptualized and used by politicians, journalists, and scholars? How have scholars attempted to explain terrorism and political violence? Are terrorism and other forms of political violence ever justified? Does terrorism or violence actually work? Examines a wide range of historical cases of terrorism and political violence in the modern world.

Education, Art, Religion, Culture, and Science Cluster

Sociology of Medicine SOC-UA 414 Offered every two years. 4 points. Why do health and illness vary by class and race? Do early life experiences affect one's chances of being ill as an adult? How large a role does health care play in influencing health disparities? How has the profession of medicine changed over time? How can we improve the quality of health care that hospitals provide? Utilizes a case-based approach.

Education and Society SOC-UA 415 4 points. Considers such educational ideas as IQ, merit, curriculum, tracking, and learning, as well as the bureaucratic organization of education. Analyzes the role of teachers, their expectations, and how they interact with students (particularly those of different social genders, classes, and ethnic groups).

Sociology of Culture SOC-UA 431 4 points. What is culture? Ideas floating in our head? Ways of acting? Where do cultures come from? How do they affect our world? Topics: the role of power relations in culture, as well as the possibility for creativity and ways of challenging power; how cultural industries are organized; and how sub-cultures provide alternative ways for people to imagine their world.

Religion and Society SOC-UA 432 4 points. Examines the relationship between religion and society, not the ultimate truth of any particular religion or religion in general. What is religion? How is it related to other institutions in society, like science and politics? Is terrorism a natural result of some religions? What do people gain from being religious? How do religions change over time?

Sociology of Music, Art, and Literature SOC-UA 433 4 points. Production, distribution, and consumption of music, art, and literature in their social contexts.

Urban Communities, Population, and Ecology Cluster

The American Ghetto  SOC-UA 139 4 points. Psychological, social, ecological, and political/economic approaches to: evolving forms of urban inequality; the contested meaning of localism; production and consumption of urban culture; immigration; segregation and ghettoization; suburbanization, fragmentation, and sprawl; environmental injustice; insecurity related to disasters and perceived health crises; and unchecked metropolitan growth.

The Social Challenges of Climate Change SOC-UA 454 Offered every two years. 4 points. Core themes: communication and cognition, cultural values and material consumption, politics and persuasion, mitigation and adaptation, economics and social justice, power and social movements, and the possibility of creating new, more sustainable ways of living on earth. Examines Superstorm Sandy and its aftermath, focusing on how to rebuild a more resilient city and region in anticipation of more extreme weather events.

Cities, Communities, and Urban Life SOC-UA 460 Identical to SCA-UA 760. 4 points. Historical development of American cities and ongoing processes of urban community life. Are cities sites of individual opportunity and rich communal life, or sources of individual pathology and community decline? What social, economic, and political factors promote one outcome or the other? How do different groups fare in the urban context, and why?

Advanced Seminar Cluster

Advanced Seminars in Sociology SOC-UA 934 to SOC-UA 939 Prerequisite: junior or senior standing or written permission of the instructor. 4 points. The Department of Sociology offers advanced seminars each semester. Recent seminar topics have included American families in transition; gender, politics, and law; the welfare state; the sociology of childhood; human nature and social institutions; and explaining September 11th. Please consult the department for a current listing.

Senior Capstone/Thesis Course Cluster

Research Capstone Seminar SOC-UA 940, 941 Required for all majors not taking the Senior Honors Research Seminar. Prerequisite: Research Methods (SOC-UA 301). Offered every semester. 4 points. A one-semester seminar to develop an independent research project, conduct original research, and prepare a research paper summarizing the results.

Senior Honors Research Seminar SOC-UA 950, 951 Prerequisite: Research Methods (SOC-UA 301). Required for all honors students. Offered in fall and spring respectively. 4 points per term. Year-long seminar that provides support for honors students in researching, designing, and completing substantial thesis projects.

Topics Course Cluster

Topics in Sociology SOC-UA 970, 971 4 points. Topics vary. Please consult the department for current content.

Independent Study

Independent Study SOC-UA 997, 998 Prerequisite: permission of the department. 2 or 4 points per term. Intensive research under the supervision of a department faculty member. Students participating in an internship may petition the Department of Sociology to receive independent study credit; please refer to the petition guidelines on the "independent study/internship information" page at the department's website.

Graduate Courses Open to Undergraduates

Under special circumstances, courses offered in the sociology graduate program are open to qualified sociology majors with the permission of the instructor. These can substitute for required sociology elective courses for majors or minors.

PhD Criminology & Justice Policy

A research-oriented and practice-oriented doctoral program..

The doctoral program in Criminology and Justice Policy is student-centered with the goal of preparing students for academic careers as well as careers in research and policy development. Students of this full-time, fully-funded Ph.D. program complete the degree in five years on average. Through our curriculum, students learn the process of research from the ground-up. Our courses teach students to construct viable research questions through qualitative and quantitative analysis, write scholarly research articles, and create technical reports appropriate for policy consumption.

Additionally, Ph.D. students are offered several benefits throughout their studies, including:

• Possibilities for generous, full-year funding packages
• Extensive summer research opportunities
• Flex fellowship: one semester off from graduate assistantship responsibilities
• Experiential and dissertation completion fellowships

Doctoral students secure prestigious positions after graduation, including tenure-track professorships at Tier 1 research universities, post-doctoral fellowships, and research-and-policy-relevant agency employment.

Recent career outcomes:

• Florida State University, Assistant Professor
• Massachusetts Appeals Court, Staff Attorney
• New York University, Postdoctoral Fellow
• University of Chicago, Postdoctoral Fellow
• University of Montana, Assistant Professor
• University of Nebraska Omaha, Assistant Professor
• Apply acquired foundational knowledge in the field of criminology and justice policy to answer questions in the realm of criminology and justice policy.
• Identify and describe the role of systemic racism and intersecting dimensions of oppression in the development of policies and practices across the criminal justice system, as well as in crime and justice theory and research.
• Critique the knowledge base in a specific domain within the field of criminology and justice policy to demonstrate advanced mastery of theoretical explanations for crime, its causes and consequences.
• Design and carry out original research using methodological tools acquired to develop new theoretical or empirical insights and expand the knowledge base in the field of criminology and justice policy.

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Students studying criminology and criminal justice are challenged by expert faculty and demanding curriculum requiring 120 credit hours. Those interested in the program can review program details, degree-specific requirements and transfer requirements , as well as the course catalog , complete with course descriptions.

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The victimology and victim services concentration is a preeminent program that is setting the standard for excellence in the nation. Through rigorous academic inquiry, cutting-edge research and practical application, this program equips students with the specialized knowledge and skills needed to understand, support and advocate for victims of crime.

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Gagarin cup (khl) finals:  atlant moscow oblast vs. salavat yulaev ufa.

Much like the Elitserien Finals, we have a bit of an offense vs. defense match-up in this league Final.  While Ufa let their star top line of Alexander Radulov, Patrick Thoresen and Igor Grigorenko loose on the KHL's Western Conference, Mytischi played a more conservative style, relying on veterans such as former NHLers Jan Bulis, Oleg Petrov, and Jaroslav Obsut.  Just reaching the Finals is a testament to Atlant's disciplined style of play, as they had to knock off much more high profile teams from Yaroslavl and St. Petersburg to do so.  But while they did finish 8th in the league in points, they haven't seen the likes of Ufa, who finished 2nd. 

This series will be a challenge for the underdog, because unlike some of the other KHL teams, Ufa's top players are generally younger and in their prime.  Only Proshkin amongst regular blueliners is over 30, with the work being shared by Kirill Koltsov (28), Andrei Kuteikin (26), Miroslav Blatak (28), Maxim Kondratiev (28) and Dmitri Kalinin (30).  Oleg Tverdovsky hasn't played a lot in the playoffs to date.  Up front, while led by a fairly young top line (24-27), Ufa does have a lot of veterans in support roles:  Vyacheslav Kozlov , Viktor Kozlov , Vladimir Antipov, Sergei Zinovyev and Petr Schastlivy are all over 30.  In fact, the names of all their forwards are familiar to international and NHL fans:  Robert Nilsson , Alexander Svitov, Oleg Saprykin and Jakub Klepis round out the group, all former NHL players.

For Atlant, their veteran roster, with only one of their top six D under the age of 30 (and no top forwards under 30, either), this might be their one shot at a championship.  The team has never won either a Russian Superleague title or the Gagarin Cup, and for players like former NHLer Oleg Petrov, this is probably the last shot at the KHL's top prize.  The team got three extra days rest by winning their Conference Final in six games, and they probably needed to use it.  Atlant does have younger regulars on their roster, but they generally only play a few shifts per game, if that. 

The low event style of game for Atlant probably suits them well, but I don't know how they can manage to keep up against Ufa's speed, skill, and depth.  There is no advantage to be seen in goal, with Erik Ersberg and Konstantin Barulin posting almost identical numbers, and even in terms of recent playoff experience Ufa has them beat.  Luckily for Atlant, Ufa isn't that far away from the Moscow region, so travel shouldn't play a major role. 

I'm predicting that Ufa, winners of the last Superleague title back in 2008, will become the second team to win the Gagarin Cup, and will prevail in five games.  They have a seriously well built team that would honestly compete in the NHL.  They represent the potential of the league, while Atlant represents closer to the reality, as a team full of players who played themselves out of the NHL. 

• Atlant @ Ufa, Friday Apr 8 (3:00 PM CET/10:00 PM EST)
• Atlant @ Ufa, Sunday Apr 10 (1:00 PM CET/8:00 AM EST)
• Ufa @ Atlant, Tuesday Apr 12 (5:30 PM CET/12:30 PM EST)
• Ufa @ Atlant, Thursday Apr 14 (5:30 PM CET/12:30 PM EST)

Games 5-7 are as yet unscheduled, but every second day is the KHL standard, so expect Game 5 to be on Saturday, like an early start. 

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Savvino-storozhevsky monastery and museum.

Zvenigorod's most famous sight is the Savvino-Storozhevsky Monastery, which was founded in 1398 by the monk Savva from the Troitse-Sergieva Lavra, at the invitation and with the support of Prince Yury Dmitrievich of Zvenigorod. Savva was later canonised as St Sabbas (Savva) of Storozhev. The monastery late flourished under the reign of Tsar Alexis, who chose the monastery as his family church and often went on pilgrimage there and made lots of donations to it. Most of the monastery’s buildings date from this time. The monastery is heavily fortified with thick walls and six towers, the most impressive of which is the Krasny Tower which also serves as the eastern entrance. The monastery was closed in 1918 and only reopened in 1995. In 1998 Patriarch Alexius II took part in a service to return the relics of St Sabbas to the monastery. Today the monastery has the status of a stauropegic monastery, which is second in status to a lavra. In addition to being a working monastery, it also holds the Zvenigorod Historical, Architectural and Art Museum.

Belfry and Neighbouring Churches

Located near the main entrance is the monastery's belfry which is perhaps the calling card of the monastery due to its uniqueness. It was built in the 1650s and the St Sergius of Radonezh’s Church was opened on the middle tier in the mid-17th century, although it was originally dedicated to the Trinity. The belfry's 35-tonne Great Bladgovestny Bell fell in 1941 and was only restored and returned in 2003. Attached to the belfry is a large refectory and the Transfiguration Church, both of which were built on the orders of Tsar Alexis in the 1650s.  

To the left of the belfry is another, smaller, refectory which is attached to the Trinity Gate-Church, which was also constructed in the 1650s on the orders of Tsar Alexis who made it his own family church. The church is elaborately decorated with colourful trims and underneath the archway is a beautiful 19th century fresco.

Nativity of Virgin Mary Cathedral

The Nativity of Virgin Mary Cathedral is the oldest building in the monastery and among the oldest buildings in the Moscow Region. It was built between 1404 and 1405 during the lifetime of St Sabbas and using the funds of Prince Yury of Zvenigorod. The white-stone cathedral is a standard four-pillar design with a single golden dome. After the death of St Sabbas he was interred in the cathedral and a new altar dedicated to him was added.

Under the reign of Tsar Alexis the cathedral was decorated with frescoes by Stepan Ryazanets, some of which remain today. Tsar Alexis also presented the cathedral with a five-tier iconostasis, the top row of icons have been preserved.

Tsaritsa's Chambers

The Nativity of Virgin Mary Cathedral is located between the Tsaritsa's Chambers of the left and the Palace of Tsar Alexis on the right. The Tsaritsa's Chambers were built in the mid-17th century for the wife of Tsar Alexey - Tsaritsa Maria Ilinichna Miloskavskaya. The design of the building is influenced by the ancient Russian architectural style. Is prettier than the Tsar's chambers opposite, being red in colour with elaborately decorated window frames and entrance.

At present the Tsaritsa's Chambers houses the Zvenigorod Historical, Architectural and Art Museum. Among its displays is an accurate recreation of the interior of a noble lady's chambers including furniture, decorations and a decorated tiled oven, and an exhibition on the history of Zvenigorod and the monastery.

Palace of Tsar Alexis

The Palace of Tsar Alexis was built in the 1650s and is now one of the best surviving examples of non-religious architecture of that era. It was built especially for Tsar Alexis who often visited the monastery on religious pilgrimages. Its most striking feature is its pretty row of nine chimney spouts which resemble towers.

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