Course includes an interpersonal group experience each week. An interdisciplinary approach to understanding the dynamics and challenges of urban life and ministry. May include travel. Offered in alternate years. The development of research skills with emphasis on social research as a scientific inquiry and problem-solving tool in explaining human social behavior.
Students learn how to formulate problems for research and implement appropriate research methods.
An examination of the development and trends of cities. Special emphasis is placed on Boston and its surrounding area. SO392 Special Topics in Sociology Exploration of topics of particular interest within Sociology. SO401 Sociological Theory Consideration of the contributions to modern sociological thought by the principal sociologists from 1850 to the present. An introduction to the concepts and procedures employed in quantitative research in the social sciences.