Crosslisted with Sociology 5325. This course is a survey of classical social theory, work done prior to 1950. You will become conversant with some core ideas and problems in social science and you will learn to create or identify and use assumptions to create your own theory of what you are interested in knowing about. Requirements and Grades Grades are derived from class presentations of readings, the process of creating your paper and the final paper. I encourage you to read and criticize and share work together.
Social science is a social enterprise.
However, ironic as it seems, you are graded individually. 0. The course is organized as a seminar, so there is little or no lecturing, instead each student comes prepared to discuss each week s readings. I will provide a format for producing outlines and the paper. This course is listed as a community partnerships course. This means that you have the option of writing a paper a paper on the community partnership immigration task force project.