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SOCIOLOGY/ANTHROPOLOGY Soc 122 Introduction to Sociology. General Education Requirement Category: Social Science. LEARNING OBJECTIVE #1. Students will demonstrate understanding of the techniques used for observation of social phenomena. . ASSESSMENT MEASURES.
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SOCIOLOGY/ANTHROPOLOGYSoc 122Introduction to Sociology General Education Requirement Category: Social Science
LEARNING OBJECTIVE #1 • Students will demonstrate understanding of the techniques used for observation of social phenomena. ASSESSMENT MEASURES • Students will conduct content analysis, participant observation, or field study of a particular social setting or visual media, and complete an essay, scored by two raters using a criterion list.
LEARNING OBJECTIVE #2 • Students will demonstrate understanding of hypotheses development in the social sciences. ASSESSMENT MEASURES • Students will create and apply hypotheses to explain correlations between social variables (ex.: education and income, unemployment and crime rates, social class and religious affiliation, etc.) in objectively-scored short answer test items.
LEARNING OBJECTIVE #3 • Students will demonstrate understanding of measurement and data collection in the social sciences. ASSESSMENT MEASURES • Students will successfully complete a computer-generated, short answer exercise, scored with answer key, that uses survey and census data to explore suicide in the United States.
LEARNING OBJECTIVE #4 • Students will demonstrate understanding of mathematical (statistical) findings, and the interpretation and evaluation of research. ASSESSMENT MEASURES • Students will successfully demonstrate understanding of the logic of basic statistical measures (measures of central tendency, correlation, statistical significance, etc.) on short answer test items scored with criterion list.
LEARNING OBJECTIVE #5 • Students will demonstrate knowledge of major concepts, models and issues in the social sciences. ASSESSMENT MEASURES • Students will complete essays demonstrating an understanding of sociological concepts as follows: theory, culture, socialization, stratification, social change. Scores will be obtained by two raters using criterion list.
SOCIOLOGY/ANTHROPOLOGYSoc 228Society and Health General Education Requirement Category: Social Science
LEARNING OBJECTIVE #1 • Students will demonstrate an understanding of the techniques used for observation of social phenomena. ASSESSMENT MEASURES • Students will successfully conduct participant observation of a health care setting and complete a written essay, scored by two raters using a criterion list.
LEARNING OBJECTIVE #2 • Students will demonstrate understanding of hypotheses development in the social sciences. ASSESSMENT MEASURES • Students will create and apply hypotheses about why rates of cancer, heart disease, HIV/AIDS, etc., vary across social groups on objectively-scored short answer test items.
LEARNING OBJECTIVE #3 • Students will demonstrate understanding of measurement and data collection in the social sciences. ASSESSMENT MEASURES • Students will correctly describe epidemiological concepts of rate, incidence, and prevalence and the application of these concepts, on objectively-scored short answer test items.
LEARNING OBJECTIVE #4 • Students will demonstrate understanding of mathematical (statistical) findings, and the interpretation and evaluation of research findings. ASSESSMENT MEASURES • Students will correctly describe calculation of life expectancy and infant mortality on objectively-scored short answer test items.
LEARNING OBJECTIVE #5 • Students will demonstrate knowledge of major concepts, models and issues in the social sciences. ASSESSMENT MEASURES • Students will correctly explain in essays the concepts of the sociology of health, illness and health care as follows: theory, social factors and illness, meaning and experience of illness, health care systems (U.S. and global), health care providers, bioethics. Scored by two raters using criterion list.