SOC 463 - Social Change

3 credit(s)
Social change occurs more rapidly each year, but we can cope with it better if we understand its causes. This course focuses on changes over the last 50 years in the United States and the world, then examines future possibilities. Lectures, readings, and videos cover key social trends, social movements and revolutions, globalization, and theories of these change processes and the interconnected contributions of politics, technology, ideas, and the environment. Some practical guidelines for producing social change are included. This course satisfies a writing-intensive requirement when listed as SOC 463W.
Prerequisite(s): SOC 110 and one foundation-level course, or permission of instructor.

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