News and Announcements

9/22/06 - CSA Conference coming The California Sociological Association annual conference will be held at the Mission Inn in Riverside November 10-11. The conference rate ($128) at the Mission Inn is available for reservations made before October 9. The Mission Inn number is 1-800-843-7755.   8/6/06 - Two new hires! We welcome new gender and socail psychology faculty member Amy Denissen (Ph.D, UCLA) and new criminology and criminal justice faculty member Kay Pih (Ph.D, UC Riverside).   6/6/06 - Three (3) Full-Time Position Openings Announced The Sociology Department at CSUN announces openings for three positions beginning Fall 2007, in Theory, Social Welfare, and Research Methods & Statistics. Please circulate these documents (and/or links to them) to persons who you believe may be or may know appropriate candidates.   5/18/06 - Egypt Trip Abroad Announced An upcoming study abroad tour to Egypt is now an approved course, and for the winter 2007 tour, students can earn up to three units of Independent Study in Sociology. Contact Tracie E. Gardner for more information.   5/17/06 - Polished Apple Awards Four members of the department have been honored with Polished Apple Awards: Melanie Klein, Dominic Little, Barbara Lazarus, and Roya Mavaddat. Faculty members are nominated for the awards, in recognition of their teaching, by members of the CSUN Student Ambassadors. Last year, Jerry Rabow and David Boyns received the awards.   4/25/06 - Department Represented at PSAs The Pacific Sociological Association meetings were held at Universal City Hilton last week, and our department was well represented. Ellis Godard, David Boyns, Melanie Klein, Teresa Madden, Linda Yellin, Jane Prather, Victor Shaw, David Lopez, Mazen Hashem, Eileen Ie, Michael DeCesare, Stavros Karageorgis, Herman DeBose, and Dave Ballard organized panels and/or made presentations. Many of our graduate students also attended, and eleven participated on panels. David Boyns deserves particular acknowledgement for his support of the graduate students and his work in fostering among them a strong sense of committment to our program and to the discipline.   2/20/06 - Graduate student conference (Voices of the Voiceless) program announced   2/3/06 - Spring Office Hours posted   1/28/06 - Spring Advising Hours posted   11/23/05 - Graduate Student Conference Announced Graduate students in the department are organizing a conference under the title "Voices for the Voiceless", to be held Friday, February 26th, 2006, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Submissions are due January 6th.   11/12/05 - Grad Students Present On Campus Two Master's degree candidates in the department - Tina Quicoli and Michael Miyawaki - presented papers at CSUN’s Annual Research and Creative Works Symposium yesterday, Friday November 11, at 2pm in Sequoia 100.  Tina’s presentation was on the social construction of race in Brazil; Michael’s was on the topic of multi-ethnic Mexican-American identities. Both presentations were very well organized and delivered, an excellent showing for the graduate students in the department, and each presenter should be congratulated for their efforts! At the end of the day, Tina’s presentation was awarded first place in the Social and Behavioral Sciences division, a fabulous honor.   9/12/05 - Fall Office Hours and Lab Hours announced The lab will be open M&W, 3-5 p.m.; T&R, 8-11 a.m. and 3-5 p.m.; and F 8-11 a.m. and 2-5 p.m.   7/15/05 - Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered Communities course offered! Sociology 452, Sociology of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered Communities will be offered in the Fall, 2005 semester on Tuesdays from 4 to 6:30.  The course provides students with an opportunity to analyze cross-cultural and historical treatment of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, and queer communities.  The course will survey sociological research on these communities, including an examination of theory and practice.  Analysis of homophobia and other attitudes toward these communities will also occur.  Please consider enrolling and/or encouraging other students to enroll in this elective course.  In past sections, students from women's studies, human sexuality, psychology, and child development along with sociology students have enrolled in this course and found the information vital to their education and to their daily lives. This course will be taught by Eric C. Wat, the author of The Making of a Gay Asian Community: An Oral History of Pre-AIDS Los-Angeles.   7/12/05 - Summer Advisement Hours   6/14/05 - 498s Rooms for Fall 2005   5/10/05 - Wanted: Student Assistant The department office needs student assistants with work study grants. Priority will be given to Sociology Majors. Contact Barbara Collins in FOB 321 after you've gotten your fall schedule. For further information, call Barbara C. at 677-3591.   3/28/05 - Burawoy to Speak Michael Burawoy will visit CSUN on Tuesday, April 19. He will give a lecture on "A Tale of Race and Class," a discussion of the role of sociology in post-colonial Zambia, at 11:00 in the Northridge Center, University Student Union, followed by a lunch with departmental faculty. Burawoy, author of Manufacturing Consent and a proponent of public sociology, is a past president of the American Sociological Association and been involved in several contentious moments in the ASA's history, including charges of institutional racism and non-democratic governance.   3/11/05 - MSW Distance Learning The CSUN MSW Program is involved with CSU Long Beach on a three-year distant learning program. The application deadline is April 7, 2005.   2/14/05 - Pow Wow Cal State University Northridge 2005 Pow Wow "Peace & Dignity: United the Eagle and the Condor" on Saturday & Sunday, February 19-20, starting @ 9 AM on the East Music Lawn.   2/4/05 - MSW Information Day The Master of Social Work program will hold an "Information Day" on Saturday, February 19th, from 10:00 A.M. to Noon in Sierra Hall Rm. 203.   1/28/05 - New Drop Procedures For Spring 2005, students may drop through SOLAR (without approval from the instructor, chair, or anyone else) until February 18th, and with a change of schedule form (signed by an instructor and submitted with a $10 late fee) until February 25th. To drop after February 25th, you must appeal to the Vice President of Undergraduate Studies, you must have documented proof of a real emergency, and (except for documented medical withdrawls) you will receive a "W" grade (indicating withdrawl).   11/29/04 - Wanted: Office Assistants with Work-Study Grants Bright, conscientious students with work-study grants wanted to work in the Sociology Department Office. Responsibilities include phones, grading, greeting students/visitors, running errands, assisting fellow students with problems, light photocopying, filing, and other office duties. If you would like to work in a fun and stress-free environment, bring your Spring class schedule and proof of work study grant to FOB 321 and ask for Barbara C, or call 818-677-3591.   11/24/04 - MSW Application now available   11/4/04 - MSW Program to Start Fall 2005 Interested persons should contact Dr. Jean Daniels at jean.daniels@csun.edu, and take a look at this flyer.   10/25/04 - Deaf Studies Internship Patrick Boudreault in the Deaf Studies Department (in the College of Education) is offering an internship for two CSUN students to work in data collection online and analysis in SPSS, while having the opportunity to learn American Sign Language. Take a look at this flyer for more info.   10/14/04 - Department Newsletter for 2004   10/13/04 - Alumni News   9/29/04 - Professional Sociology Student Assocation reforms Come and meet other students interested in your field, Tuesday September 28th, at 3:30 p.m., in the FOB Conference Room (108). Learn about the exciting events planned for the 2004-2005 academic year. Help create new ideas, and be a member of a successful student association Benefits of becoming a member of PSSA include: Getting to know sociology faculty members Becoming more involved in the department Helping to create a critical thinking film series Getting involved in sociological based research Organizing toward humanitarian efforts Establishing an honor society Brainstorming fund raising events that will raise consciousness of other CSUN students Come join us for a year of challenge and adventure. Faculty contacts: David Boyns, Michael Decesare, and Amy Levin. The group originated in 1987 from a theory course taught by Wayne Plasek, was known for several years as the Sociology Club, and includes both graduate and undergraduate students.   9/08/04 - Study abroad in Egypt! Professor Gardner is looking for student interested in studying abroad in Egypt. See website and flyer.   4/28/04 - From FOB to Los Robles Hall? The Santa Susana Hall may be renamed. Suggested candidates include Redwood, Joshua Tree, Grove, Santana, Lemon, Angeles Crest, Magnolia, Canyon, Los Robles, Verdugo, Mojave Prison Walls, Valley Fever, Land Haze, and Iron Cage.   2/26/04 - MSW Program Delayed The inauguration of the MSW Program has been delayed until Fall 2005. Please do not submit applications or supporting materials at this time. Further details will follow at a later date, on this and associated webpages.   2/13/04 - New Sociology Computer Lab Hours The lab (SH180) is now open 1-4:30 p.m. on Monday and Wednesday; and 2-4:30 p.m. on Tuesday and Thursday; for Spring 2004.   11/14/03 - CATI Lab Introductory Session You may, at your instructor's descretion, receive extra credit for attending an introductory session about the new CATI (Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing) lab in SH180 and the Center for Survey Research which will operate within it. The second such session (previously delayed from 11/16) will be on Sunday, November 23rd from 1-5 pm. Reservations can be accomplished online at www.vcsun.org/~jschutte/surveyform.htm. You will receive a confirmation via email.   10/15/03 - Sociology Computer Lab Hours The lab (SH180) is now open 1-5 pm on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and 3-5 pm Tuesday and Thursday.   9/3/03 - Sociology Club Re-Convenes The reformation of the sociology club will be discussed at a start of the semester meeting for all interested parties, Wednesday, September 3rd at 11 a.m. in Santa Susana Hall (FOB) Room 306. 8/16/03 - Yablonsky Honored At the 2003 meetings of the American Sociological Association, our own Dr. Lou Yablonsky was given the Distinguished Career Award for the Practice of Sociology, one of the seven most prestigious given by the ASA each year. 4/23/03 - Student Awards Given The Department Honor's Dinner was held on Friday, April 23rd, at the CSUN University Club. For more information, see award recipients and pictures.:   4/11/03 - Faculty Retreat held   4/2/03 - CSUN @ PSA Nearly two dozen department faculty presented at the PSA meetings in Pasadena. See this complete list.   11/02 - Sociology of Education position: The department seeks a candidate specializing in the sociology of education for a position to begin Fall 2003. Full details.   10/02 - Welcome, Nancy! We are proud to announce that Nancy Acevedo has been officially hired on as the department's new part-time clerical assistant. She will be taking over the duties once performed by Rhiannon. Although Nancy will be more than happy to assist all of you with proctoring, etc., her first responsibility is to the front office.

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