Dr. McGrane's
Recent Books

This Book is Not Required:
An Emotional and Intellectual
Survival Manual for Students

Watching TV Is Not Required,
An Emotional Survival
Guide for Students

This Book Is Not
Required, An Emotional
Survival Guide for Students

Bernard McGrane - Associate Professor of Sociology
Department of Sociology - Chapman University
1989 - present 

Roosevelth Hall 216, Chapman University, 1 University Dr., Orange, CA 92866
mcgrane@chapman.edu
B.A. Fairfield University; Ph.D., New York University.

Bernard McGrane (Ph.D. New York University) is Associate Professor of Sociology. He has a passion for teaching and writing. His principle fields of study have been sociology, philosophy, anthropology and intellectual history. He is the author of Beyond Anthropology, Society and the Other; The Un-TV and the 10 MPH Car: Exploriments in Personal Freedom and Everyday Life; This Book is Not Required, An Emotional Survival Manual for Students, and he is also featured in two educational videos: The Ad and the Id: Sex, Death and Subliminal Advertising and The Ad and the Ego: Advertising and Identity. He offers a wide variety of courses: Social Psychology, Sociology of Death and Dying, Sexual Literacy and Society, Getting Love Right, Mass Communications and Society, Advertising and Society, Honors: In Search of Self, Honors: In Search of Reality, Social Movements of the Sixties, Meditation, and a relatively inexpensive 10 day January Interterm travel course to a Tibetan American Meditation center in the Colorado Rockies. The course is titled Ancient Wisdom and Modern Madness—Mind, Self and Society in Tibetan Buddhism.

Recent Teaching Experience

• 1989 - present: Chapman University, Orange, CA. - Assistant Professor, Sociology (1989-1995), Associate Professor (1995-Present). Department Chair 1993-1995)
• 2002 - 2004: UCLA, Los Angeles, CA - Visiting Lecturer, Sociology. (Part-Time)
• 1994 - 2001: UC Irvine, Irvine CA - Lecturer, Sociology. (Part-Time)

(To read more about Dr. McGrane's teaching experiences, click here)

Education

• 1971 - 1977: Ph.D., New York University, New York, New York Full Fellowship: Herbert H. Lehman Regents Graduate Fellowship. Major, Sociology; Minor: Anthropology and Philosophy; Mentors, Richard Sennet, Alan Blum, Irving Goffman
• 1965 - 1969: B.A., Fairfield University, Fairfield, Connecticut. Double Major, Sociology and Philosophy; Double Minor, History and Anthropology
• 1967 - 1968: Freie Universitat Berlin, West Berlin, Germany Study Course: The Frankfurt School of Sociology, Nineteenth Century German Philosophy (Fluent in German) 

Recent Research and Publications

• 2008: Watching Television Is Not Required: Toward Media Mindfulness and Enlightenment TV. Routledge
• 2005: This Book Is Not Required: An Emotional Survival Manual for Students. Newly Revised Edition. Sage Publication's Pine Forge Press
• 2004: "Zen TV: Consciousness and the Media" in Shift: At the Frontiers of Consciousness, Institute of Noetic Sciences, March-May, No. 2

(To read more about Dr. McGrane's publications, click here)

Courses Taught

Sociology

Anthropology

Philosophy

Existentialism
Foucault, Structuralism and Hermeneutics

Interdisciplinary

Buddhism, Psychoanalysis and Existentialism: Lines of Covergence
A History of the Human Body
In Search of Self (Honors course)
In Search of Reality: Media in the 20th Century (Honors course)
Freshman Foundations Course: Cultural Heritage I - From Genesis to Frued: The Great Ideas of Dean White Males -- The Exquisite Passion and Disturbing Aggression of the Western Mind

Travel Courses

Tibet and China: Life, Art, Spirituality -- Ancient Foundations, Modern Realities (A 21 Travel Course)
Ancient Wisdom, Modern Madness: Mind, Self and Society in Tibetan Buddhism (A 10 Day Retreat at Shambhala Mountain in the Colorado Rockies)