This foundational course in the social sciences introduces students to key sociological perspectives and methods to examine global issues. Students explore how institutions, culture, and systems of power and inequality shape people's lives across diverse communities and contexts.
Outcomes: Identify examples of the relationship between institutions and individuals; Explain the impact that culture has on group dynamics and social interactions within local, national, and global settings; Summarize how people's identities are formed through a complex interaction of biographical, societal, or cultural contexts; Describe the experiences of underrepresented, marginalized, or oppressed communities within various contexts, including inequality in outcomes and resistance to systems of oppression; Analyze how systems of power, privilege, and oppression (e.g., racism, sexism, heterosexism, ableism) operate to create and maintain inequality as well as how resistance to these systems is enacted.
Outcomes: Identify examples of the relationship between institutions and individuals; Explain the impact that culture has on group dynamics and social interactions within local, national, and global settings; Summarize how people's identities are formed through a complex interaction of biographical, societal, or cultural contexts; Describe the experiences of underrepresented, marginalized, or oppressed communities within various contexts, including inequality in outcomes and resistance to systems of oppression; Analyze how systems of power, privilege, and oppression (e.g., racism, sexism, heterosexism, ableism) operate to create and maintain inequality as well as how resistance to these systems is enacted.