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Semester:	Summer 2020
Number:	0613-376-001
Instructor:	Stephanie Lake
Note:	Online, Asynchronous
Location:	Online
Credits:	4
Course Meets:	June 8 - August 11
Notes:
Course Materials:	View Text Books
Description:	This course analyzes the causes of economic, social, and racial tensions in the world.
Learning Goals:	1. To develop and refine your sociological imagination.2. To refine your small group discussion skills, oral presentation skills, analytical and critical thinking skills and writing skills.3. To investigate some of the overarching issues that sociologists have struggled with.4. To investigate how sociologists have framed questions about the nature of social problems, the glue that holds societies together and what tears them apart, order and conflict, and stability and change more generally. *The learning goals displayed here are those for one section of this course as offered in a recent semester, and are provided for the purpose of information only. The exact learning goals for each course section in a specific semester will be stated on the syllabus distributed at the start of the semester, and may differ in wording and emphasis from those shown here.