If you do well in this course, you will be able to:

• Demonstrate the analytic concepts and thinking skills needed to respond to real life social problems encountered as citizens, workers, victims, family members, friends, etc.
• Discuss each of the major social theories.
• Discuss the various major contemporary social problems found in modern American society.
• Define the working concept of social problem.
• Explain sociological perspectives.
• Apply concepts and theories in discussing topics in social problems.
• Conduct online research on selected social problems.
• Discuss the main standpoints of the liberal, conservative, and libertarian ideologies.
• Interpret and utilize data in analyzing the extent of specific social problem.
• Utilize media resources in studying social problem topics.
• Analyze the process by which social conditions get elevated to the status of social problems.