SOCI 1101: Introduction to Sociology

3 Credit Hours

This course is an overview of sociology, which emphasizes the social nature of human behavior, including an introduction to culture, social structure, socialization, deviance, stratification, family, gender, religion, demography, and complex organization.

Course Learning Outcomes
Students who successfully complete this course will be able to:

Recognize, describe, and explain social institutions, structures, and processes and the complexities of a global culture and diverse society.
Think critically about how individuals are influenced by political, geographic, economic, cultural, and family institutions in their own and other diverse cultures and explain how one’s own belief system may differ from others.
Explore the relationship between the individual and society as it affects the personal behavior, social development and quality of life of the individual, the family and the community.
Use the most appropriate principles, methods, and technologies, perceptively and objectively gather, analyze, and present social and behavioral science research data, draw logical conclusions, and apply those conclusions to one’s life and society.
Analyze and communicate the values and processes that are used to formulate theories regarding the social context of individual human behavior.