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Sociology 290: Social Problems is a three-credit course designed to introduce students to the study of social problems: their definition, their dimensions and interconnections, their effects, and strategies for alleviating them.

Unit 1: Defining Social Problems

Kendall-Taylor, N., & Gibbons, S. (2018, April 17). Framing for social change. Stanford Social Innovation Review.
Marshall, S., & Woodstock, T. (2023, May 15). We need to talk about The New York Times with Tuck Woodstock. You're Wrong About [Podcast series].
Molla, R., & Kafka, P. (2021, May 27). Here’s who owns everything in big media today. Vox.
YW Boston. (2017, March 29). What is intersectionality, and what does it have to do with me? [Blog post]. YWBoston.
Crenshaw, K. (2016, October). The urgency of intersectionality [TED Talk]. TEDWomen 2016. TED. 

Content Warning: Crenshaw discusses police violence.
Please note that the video page provides a transcript.
Nicholas, T. (2019, September 12). Neoliberalism: From Ronald Reagan to the gig economy [Video]. YouTube.
Gray, M. (2006). Law enforcement against prohibition [Video]. Common Sense for Drug Policy. YouTube. 

Unit 5: Global Population and Global Social Problems

Global Footprint Network. (2026). What is your ecological footprint [Footprint calculator]. 
Collaborative Indigenous Research (CIR). (2026). Collaborative Indigenous Research Digital Garden.
Taylor, S. R. (2017, October). Bodies as resistance: Claiming the political act of being oneself [TEDx Talk]. TEDxMarin 2016. YouTube.
Brown, A. M., & Flanders, L. (2021). Excerpt: “Emergent strategies”—adrienne maree brown [Video]. The Laura Flanders show. YouTube.
Peltier, A. (2019). Water protector Autumn Peltier speaks at UN [YouTube video]. CBC News.