Learning Objectives

• Looking to the reasons and outcomes of social phenomena and changes in the globalising and rapidly changing world from a sociological perspective.
• Becoming skilled at defining problems, formulating them and finding solutions for them, and using appropriate analyses and models for this purpose. 
• Developing contemporary approaches with the knowledge of classical and modern theories on how to analyse facts, phenomena and incidents better.
• Using acquired knowledge and skills in developing critical approaches on social issues. Using acquired knowledge in the policymaking processes for social problems.
• Participating in the designing or application phases of qualitative and quantitative research; translating data into analysis with the help of computers; having knowledge on the social outcomes of the researches, and evaluating these outcomes in terms of ethics and law. Behaving responsibly all the time taking these possible outcomes and effects into consideration.