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Introduction to Sociology

Course Overview

Date / Time Location Credits Minimium Tuition*
1/27/25 - 5/14/25
MoWeFr 1p.m. – 1:50p.m.
Wheatley W01-0034 3 $1984 (guest students)
Date
1/27/25 - 5/14/25
Time
MoWeFr 1p.m. – 1:50p.m.
Location
Wheatley W01-0034
Credits
3
Min. Tuition*
$1984 (guest students)

Description

This course provides a broad overview of sociology and how it applies to everyday life. Major theoretical perspectives and concepts are presented under the following broad sections: sociological imagination, social inequality, and social institutions. Applying C. Wright Mills; notion of the 'sociological imagination,' this course will seek to find ways to connect an understanding of ourselves with broad dynamics of national and global social structures and forces of social change.

This course is closed for registration.

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