SOC 3300 - Sociology of Poverty

• Students will be able to describe recent patterns and trends in poverty.
• Students will be able to explain and critically evaluate major sociological concepts, theories, and empirical research used to understand and explain poverty at home and abroad.
• Students will be able to identify and discuss the multiple measures sociologists use to understand and analyze poverty.
• Students will be able to incorporate different points of view to discuss and critically evaluate sociological research and contemporary debates regarding poverty.
• Students will be able to describe and discuss intersectional poverty relating to class, race, gender, sexualities, globalization, immigration, and politics, and how it impacts the lived experiences of individuals.
• Students will be able to articulate their own assumptions about poverty, poverty in their local communities, and how their lived experience compares to that of other groups.
• Students will be able to apply knowledge about poverty to their everyday interactions and in support of others.
• Students will be able to discuss and critically evaluate the possibilities for individual and structural change of structures of poverty.
• Students will be able to identify and assess efforts of social movements and policy makers to address poverty.
• Students will be able to explain cultural differences in verbal and non-verbal communication that relate to poverty and critically assess contemporary media portrayals of poverty.
• Students will be able to discuss how globalization impacts poverty, and how global poverty is connected to complex cross-cultural problems of conflict, hunger, and the environment.