By the end of the semester, students are expected to be able to:
- understand theoretical ideas of the key theorists of modern and contemporary sociology
- make connections between contemporary theories and classical theories
- have a sense of the historical and intellectual circumstances in which each of these thinkers emerged
- compare similarities and differences between the perspectives of different thinkers
- identify relative strengths and weaknesses of given theories
- discuss contemporary social and cultural phenomena in light of the theories learned in course