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Graduate Certificate in Sociology

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Graduate Certificate

Courses Offered in SOCIOLOGY

The following courses are available for your Associate's degree. Each course provides you a unique educational experience. Each course is developed by an international staff of highly skilled instructors. The course material is updated to provide students with the latest current information in the subject.

Specialized Course

  • Course Name

  • Courses Description

  • Credit Hours

  • Contemporary Social Theory

  • This brief course on Contemporary social theory provides a formal introduction to the way theories are constructed, stated, tested, and connected together to form a scientific body of knowledge.

  • 6 Credits

  • Urban Sociology

  • This course presents a balanced review of ecological arguments that urban arena produces unique experiential and urban-based cultural effects while exploring the broader political and economic contexts that produce/modify urban environment. Course provides insights of urban experience, focuses on significance of cultural, social organizational and political dimensions of urban change.

  • 6 Credits

Contemporary Social Theory

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Introduction
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The idea
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Concepts
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Statements
    Forms of theories
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Testing theories
    Strategies for developing a scientific body of knowledge
    Conclusion

Urban Sociology

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Exploring the city
    The origins and development of the world and rsquo;s cities
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The development of north american cities
    Cities and suburbs of the twenty-first century
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Urban sociology: classic and modern statements
    Social psychology: the urban experience
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Geography and spatial perspectives: making sense of space
    Comparative urbanism: the city and culture
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The new urban sociology: the city and capitalism
    Stratification and social class: urban and suburban lifestyles
    Race, ethnicity, and gender: urban diversity
    Housing, education, crime: confronting urban problems
    Cities in the developing world
    Planning the urban environment
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