Students
will develop and articulate a unique personal world view through the
acquisition of the following skills, knowledge, and attitudes:
a.
Skills
i. The student will use scientific methods and reasoning as
demonstrated by designing specific research projects, writing proposals
and reports, constructing theories and models, creating hypotheses,
collecting data, and performing data analyses.
ii. The student will critically assess, analyze, and evaluate
from a sociological perspective current issues, events, public policies,
and social problems as evidenced by engaging in class discussion and
doing presentations, article and media analyses, written exams, written
papers and essays, and debating.
b.
Knowledge
i. The student will effectively utilize and apply core
sociological concepts including status, role, social
group, social structure, social institution, society,
social stratification, social inequality, prejudice,
discrimination, norms, values, beliefs, mores,
folkways, deviance, culture, and socialization
through presentations, class discussion, written papers and essays,
written exams, and projects.
ii. The students will contrast, compare, apply, and evaluate a
broad range of alternative world views, domain assumptions, and
theoretical perspectives through presentations, class discussions,
written papers and essays, written exams, and projects.
iii. The student will contrast, compare, apply, and evaluate the
broad range of methodologies and statistical techniques common to the
social sciences through article critiques and reviews, written papers
and research proposals, written exams, projects, and the analyzing,
summarizing, and reporting of data.
iv. The student will be able to apply and utilize a sociological
approach to understanding and evaluating current events, social and
public policy, social problems, and international development through
presentations, class discussion, written papers and essays, written
exams, article and media critiques reviews, and debates.
c.
Attitudes
The
student will utilize and apply a sociological perspective as one means
to develop and articulate a personal world view reflecting a keen
awareness of oneself and others in the active understanding and
promotion of human diversity, empathy, compassion, cultural and global
awareness, moral and ethical understandings, and the promotion of peace
and justice as demonstrated by presentations, class discussion, written
papers and essays, written exams, article and media critiques and
reviews, and projects.
