SOC101

Students will understand the importance of social interaction for how humans create their social world.

Students will identify sociological forces (culture, social interaction, power, symbolic meaning) working in their lives and in the lives of members of their community.

Students will locate themselves and their community within major social patterns including: culture, social structure, institutions, class, race, ethnicity, and gender.

Students will communicate, orally and in writing, a critical understanding of society, interaction, and community- meaning that they will move beyond common place understandings of social action toward a deeper and more nuanced understanding of societys composition.

Students will evaluate original works of sociology, applying theory, methods, and data to the evaluation of these works.