Mar 29, 2024  
Official Course Syllabi 2020-2021 
    
Official Course Syllabi 2020-2021 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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SOCY 1100 - Modern Social Problems

Credit Hours: 3.00


Prerequisites: None

A sociological analysis of some of the major social problems confronting American society. Emphasis is placed on the relationship between social problems and value conflicts, social deviation, and social change.

Contact Hours: 3
Billable Contact Hours: 3
OUTCOMES AND OBJECTIVES
Outcome 1:
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to recognize three major theoretical perspectives in sociology and its own notion of the causes, consequences, and solutions of social problems.

Objectives:

  1. Utilize the fundamentalist perspective in terms of causes, consequences, and solutions of social problems.
  2. Utilize the conflict perspective in terms of causes, consequences, and solutions of social problems.
  3. Utilize the interactionist perspective in terms of causes, consequences, and solutions of social problems.

Outcome 2:
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to recognize how the social context influences our attitudes and behavior.

Objectives:

  1. Gather data.
  2. Explain the difference between facts and opinion.
  3. Explain objectivity and subjectivity.
  4. Explain manifest functions and latent functions within the social world.
  5. List the steps of the basic research model.

Outcome 3:
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate knowledge of the influences of globalization in shaping reality.

Objectives:

  1. Explain the micro level social issues as it applies to the individual.
  2. Explain the macro level of reality at group levels.
  3. Explain the meso level of various societies..
    1. Northern Europe
    2. Middle East
    3. Central America
    4. South America

COMMON DEGREE OUTCOMES
(Bulleted outcomes apply to the course)

  1. The graduate can integrate the knowledge and technological skills necessary to be a successful learner.
  • 2. The graduate can demonstrate how to think competently.
  1. The graduate can demonstrate how to employ mathematical knowledge.
  • 4. The graduate can demonstrate how to communicate competently.
  • 5. The graduate is sensitive to issues relating to a diverse, global society.

COURSE CONTENT OUTLINE
  1. Sociological Perspectives
  2. Research Methodology
  3. Mental Illness
  4. Drugs and Alcohol
  5. Crime and Deviance
  6. Poverty and Affluence
  7. Racism
  8. Gender
  9. Family
  10. Work
  11. Urban Population
  12. Technology
  13. Terrorism and War
  14. Globalization

Primary Faculty
Kingry, Bryan
Secondary Faculty

Associate Dean
Williams-Chehmani, Angie
Dean
Pritchett, Marie



Official Course Syllabus - Macomb Community College, 14500 E 12 Mile Road, Warren, MI 48088



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