Apr 12, 2025  
2025-2026 Cal State East Bay Catalog (BETA) 
    

SOC 201 - Social Problems


Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-4
Survey of social problems in present-day American culture and application of sociological theory and analysis to issues such as poverty, racism, crime, healthcare, education, and the environment.

Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-4 - Lower Division Social and Behavioral Sciences
Strongly Recommended Preparation: SOC 100
Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground, or Hybrid, or Online-Asynchronous, or Online-Synchronous.
Grading: A-F grading only.
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring


Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:
  1. Define a “social problem.”
  2. Analyze, compare and contrast theoretical approaches to social problems.
  3. Evaluate alternative strategies and solutions to social problems using evidence from social research.


GE-4. Lower-division Social and Behavioral Sciences Electives Learning Outcomes
  1. Explain how social, political, and economic institutions and/or principles intersect with each other.
  2. Describe how people produce, resist, and/or transform social, political, and economic institutions/principles.
  3. Investigate contemporary and/or historical events/issues from a social science perspective.



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