This 10-week course for undergraduate community college students is designed for asynchronous online delivery. The course covers the central questions, schools of thought, forms of research, and theoretical debates about social issues and how social institutions and systems are organized and change over time. Topics for the course include how collective behavior can lead to social change over time and how social contexts, historical events, institutional structures, and unequal relations of power shape society. The coursework for Social Change is designed to develop skills needed to think critically about how and why societies change and how the causes and consequences of social change shape the world.
Included in this course are a complete course map, instructor guide, assessment prompts and rubrics, as well as weekly module introductions, self-guided lesson content, discussion prompts, and writing assignments. The course readings include an open textbook for each module.
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Creator: Curated and Designed by Aimee Samara Krouskop, Portland Community College
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Relevance: Course based on SOC 205 Social Change
Level: Undergraduate
License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Analyze social change using sociological perspectives.
Describe how individual life experiences relate to social structures and cultures using the sociological imagination.
Identify data trends, causes of change, and outcomes on groups, institutions, and society, using appropriate social research methods.
Explain how social change relates to social inequality and systems of power.
Identify ways to participate as active citizens.