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Teaching

Professor Calhoun advises, teaches independent study courses, and offers classes in different ASU Schools with which he is affiliated. He was previously honored for his teaching at UNC, NYU, and Columbia. He has also supervised the PhDs of 50 students, including faculty members at ASU, Amsterdam, Berkeley, Brown, CEU, Columbia, LSE, New Mexico, Northwestern, Santa Cruz, Texas, UCLA, Washington and other universities.

Courses
2025 Spring
Course Number Course Title
POS 598 Special Topics
SOS 499 Individualized Instruction
SOS 493 Honors Thesis
SOS 792 Research
2024 Fall
Course Number Course Title
SOS 592 Research
SOS 792 Research
SOS 492 Honors Directed Study
SOS 394 Special Topics
2024 Spring
Course Number Course Title
SOS 599 Thesis
SOS 194 Special Topics
SOS 394 Special Topics
SOS 499 Individualized Instruction
SOS 194 Special Topics
2023 Fall
Course Number Course Title
SOS 592 Research
SOS 394 Special Topics
2023 Summer
Course Number Course Title
SOS 792 Research
2023 Spring
Course Number Course Title
SOS 599 Thesis
2022 Fall
Course Number Course Title
SOS 592 Research
SOS 599 Thesis
2021 Fall
Course Number Course Title
SOS 592 Research
HSD 598 Special Topics
POS 498 Pro-Seminar
2020 Fall
Course Number Course Title
SOS 592 Research
2020 Spring
Course Number Course Title
HON 394 Special Topics

 

Calhoun has taught a wide variety of courses at all levels from first year undergraduate to PhD. These include:

Graduate: Classical Social Theory, History of Social Thought, Current Issues in Social Theory, Political Sociology, Comparative and Historical Sociology, Marx and Marxism, Nationalism (with Lloyd Kramer), Social Structure and Social Action, Social Theory and Cultural Diversity, Social Movements and Collective Action, Critical Social Theory, Stratification and Inequality, Writing and Publishing in Sociology, The Sociology of Culture, Contemporary Sociological Theory, Politics and Culture, The Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu, History of Sociology, Studying Science.

Undergraduate: Social Theory and Sociological Analysis, American Society, Introduction to Sociology, Personality and Socialization, Family and Society, Economic Development and Political Change, Socialism, Economy and Society, Cross-Cultural Relations (with Trudier Harris), Conversations with the West: Antiquity and the 19th Century, Contemporary Civilization, The Modern World-System: Past, Present, and Future (with Immanuel Wallerstein).

 

Courses

Fall 2021
Course Number Course Title
HSD 598 Special Topics
with Robert Kirsch and Nicole K. Mayberry

 

Fall 2020
Course Number Course Title
SOS 592 Research
HSD 598 Special Topics
HPS 598 Special Topics

 

Spring 2020
Course Number Course Title
HON 394 The Green New Deal and the Future of Work in America
with Ben Fong