Critical Thinking about Social Problems

Catalog description

This utilizes critical thinking and the sociological imagination to explore, discuss, and analyze social problems. The course reviews the role of power and ideology in defining social problems, explores various causes consequences; evaluation possible solutions and methods of intervention of social problems. The course applies critical thinking skills using both inductive and deductive forms of reasoning, including identifying formal and informal fallacies and analyzes the evidence on which conclusions are based. The application of critical thinking strengthens and heightens the social awareness of students concerning major social problems today. ADVISORIES: Sociology 1A and English C1000 or C1000H. (A, Cal-GETC, CSU, UC) (C-ID SOCI 115)