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Sociology

ACT 103 Visual and Performing Arts
1 Term; 3 Credits
This course explores traditions and developments in interconnected genres of visual and
performing arts including music, dance, theatre, and visual arts. Instead of viewing these
genres as separate domains, it emphasizes the relationships between the performative and
the visual, while still exposing students to distinct elements of these traditions around the world,
with an emphasis on Asia. It also situates performing and visual arts as practices embedded
within communities and societies, and students will analyse how these practices both shape
and reflect diverse perspectives about social structures, cultural and religious beliefs, and
political and economic systems.

SOC 100 Introduction to Sociology
1 Term; 3 Credits
This course provides a concise introduction to sociology which enables students to
acquire a better understanding to the essence of sociological inquiry. The course content
covers key paradigms in sociology, the importance of culture and socialization, the dynamics
of social interactions in everyday life, and various essential institutions of modern society.

SOC 103 Introduction to Anthropology
1 Term; 3 Credits
This course aims to provide a general introduction to the discipline of anthropology. This
course offers students living in a globalized world a good opportunity to learn more about their
own culture as well as other cultures and to examine cultural differences in an anthropological
way (in particular, using cultural relativism perspective). As such, some key concepts, the main
theoretical perspectives and the unique research methods that anthropologists use are
explored. Major topics to be covered include the brief history of anthropology, studying culture,
research methods and theories in anthropology, language and communication, religion,
marriage, family, kinship, economic anthropology, ethnicity, cultural change, and applications
of anthropology. In so doing, students will learn how to appreciate cultural diversity, evaluate
culture in its own terms and reduce biases and prejudices associated with ethnocentrism.

SOC 108 Introduction to Statistics
1 Term; 3 Credits
This course provides sociology students with training in the principles and application of
statistics to the social sciences. Topics covered include: basic concepts of statistics; the
measures of central tendency and dispersion; probability and sampling theories; bivariate
measures of association; and hypothesis testing. The meanings of statistics and statistical
conclusions are stressed.

SOC 204 Cultures in the Contemporary World
1 Term; 3 Credits
This course investigates social life from a perspective that is based on comparison,

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