SOC-2100 - Social Problems* (B, C) (3)

Prerequisite: SOC-1010 or SOC-1040
Students apply national and global sociological perspectives to the study of specific social problems such as the environment, crime, discrimination, and poverty and identify their varying causes and consequences. Students may be expected to participate in service-learning projects in order to apply course materials to real world efforts to solve social problems. This course satisfies the General Education Social/Behavioral Science requirement and the Core Competency for Cultural and Global Awareness.

List Course Outcomes (consistent for all sections)
CO1 - Apply the sociological imagination and perspective to current social problems.

CO2 - Evaluate the usefulness of social theories for explaining current social problems.

CO3 - Identify appropriate sociological research methods for social problems, considering ethical issues.

CO4 - Analyze social problems: their characteristics; causes and consequences; and how societies deal with them.

CO5 - Examine how larger social forces and social change affect social problems.

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