Sociology
- Degrees/Certificates Offered: See Below
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- School: Social/Behavioral Sciences and Multicultural Studies
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Degrees/Certificates
Associate in Arts
Student Learning Outcomes
Students who complete the Sociology Program will gain facility with:
- Global Awareness: Explain the role of the United States in the global economy and political system.
- Critical Thinking: Compare and contrast the traditions of structural functionalism, social conflict theory, symbolic interaction, and their contemporary offshoots of feminism, post-structuralism, and social construction theory.
- Communication: Articulate in writing and speech an understanding of the basic assumptions of human behavior within the discipline: the effects of culture, social structure, and social interaction on human agency.
- Social Action and Civic Responsibility: Explain how the theoretical underpinnings of sociology explicitly challenge the dominant ideology in American society of individualism and radical subjectivism.