Course Details
Course Information Package
Course Unit Title | INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY | ||||||||
Course Unit Code | ASOC101 | ||||||||
Course Unit Details | BA Journalism (Required Courses) - BA Audio Visual Communication (Human & Social Sciences ) - | ||||||||
Number of ECTS credits allocated | 5 | ||||||||
Learning Outcomes of the course unit | By the end of the course, the students should be able to:
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Mode of Delivery | Face-to-face | ||||||||
Prerequisites | NONE | Co-requisites | NONE | ||||||
Recommended optional program components | NONE | ||||||||
Course Contents | Basic Definitions: Society, social structure, socio-economic systems, gender, race, nation, population, social classes, nationalism, racism, chauvinism.
Pioneers of Sociology: The Auguste Comte, Emile Durkhim, Karl Marx, Max Weber, Georg Simmel.
Society: The human society, the structure and its operation, the society as a system.
Historical forms of social living together: Gender, race, family, nationality, nation, state and synchronous society. Social-economic systems. Analysis of the phenomenon of nationalism and racism.
Family and Society: Forms of family, social changes, relations in the family, divorces, violence in the family.
Sociological methods of research: Basic methods of research,(archival research or Historical methods, longitudinal study, observation, survey research, experimental research) advantages and disadvantages.
Basic sociological theories: Introduction of the basic sociological theories e.g. posivitism, marxism, functionalism, phenomenology,etc. | ||||||||
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods | The teaching methods that we are using during the lesson periods are lectures, discussions, power point presentation, individual and group projects. Lectures are supplemented with film presentations and panel discussions.
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Language of instruction | Greek | ||||||||
Work placement(s) | NO |