SOCI 1010 Introduction to Sociology

3 (3 lecture hours) Credit Hour(s)

General Education Learning Outcomes (TBR Approved)

• Recognize, describe, and explain social institutions, structures, and processes occurring within a complex global and diverse society.
• Examine the impact of behavioral and social scientific research on major contemporary issues and their disciplines’ effects on individuals and society.
•  Evaluate ethical implications in the social and behavioral sciences.
• Analyze and communicate the values and processes that are used to formulate theories regarding the social context of individual human behavior in the social and behavioral sciences.

• Recognize, describe, and explain social institutions, structures, processes and the complexities of a global culture and a 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.
• Examine the impact of behavioral and social scientific research on major contemporary issues and their disciplines’ effects on individuals and society, use the most appropriate principles, methods, and technologies, perceptively and objectively gather, analyze, and present social and behavioral science research data, and draw logical conclusions.
• Apply those conclusions to one’s life and society take ethical stands based on appropriate research in the social and behavioral sciences analyze and communicate the values and processes that are used to formulate theories regarding social context of individual human behavior for the social and behavioral sciences.