Academic Calendar 2017/2018 - Social Problems (formerly SOCI 2506)

SOCI 3506  Social Problems (formerly SOCI 2506)

Prerequisites:

SOCI 1016 or SOCI 1015

Antirequisites:

SOCI 2506

Hours:

Three hours of lecture per week for one term.

Credits:

3

Description:

The course is concerned with a theoretical and empirical examination of major contemporary social problems and their international and national interconnections. Such problems as poverty, effects of industrialization, living and working conditions, population growth, alienation and urbanization, are discussed. Various views/programs generated to deal with such problems are also be analysed and evaluated.