Presented with a multicultural perspective, this course presents research and concepts about culture, ethnic minorities, and established principles as they relate to standard topics of social psychology. The course reflects the field's diverse methods for conducting research. Context-setting introductions encourage you to carefully consider each topic's applications-and implications.

This course uses a dual approach to introduce an analysis of work in industrial societies. It analyzes how industrial societies and specific contemporary industrial societies evolved. Using actual situations to provide a real-world context, the course encourages you to consider the questions inherent to industrial societies. 

This course offers an integrated social science view of the world, emphasizing that social change is the pervasive reality of our era. This course also illustrates the increasing fragmentation of the social order, which leads people away from community and a common purpose to conflict and disunity.

This course provides introduction to research methods. Includes discussions about scientific methods; incorporates common types of research models. It provides coverage of research process, problem-selection, sampling and generalizability. It describes how to collect and analyze data, and provides thorough instruction on how to prepare and write research proposal and manuscript.

This course examines contemporary sociological theory as it emerged in the 20th century and developed into the present day. Major thinkers will be introduced and you will develop an understanding of how to relate theory to contemporary social experience. Cutting edge developments in Marxist theory are also examined.