2024-25 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
    Nov 21, 2024  
2024-25 Undergraduate Catalog
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SOC 315 - Development Sociology

Anthropologists' and development sociologists' specific roles in economic development, public health, other projects involving cross-cultural planned change. Concepts of socioeconomic change emphasizing classic case studies of applied anthropology and sociology; modern roles in project planning, design, instrumentation and evaluation. Social scientists' responsibilities in understanding recipient culture, in encouraging participatory approaches to development as part of interdisciplinary development project team emphasis. Fulfills Category C. Prerequisite: SOC 150 or ANT 102. Also listed as ANT 315. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
Frequency code O = offered occasionally

Student Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

  1. Define the processes of development/underdevelopment and the problems of poverty.
  2. Analyze the involvement of anthropologists/sociologists in development and the socio-anthropological models of culture change.
  3. Apply socio-anthropological knowledge to finding solutions to global development problems.



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