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Eligibility Criteria

Bachelor's Degree or equiv. international education

Credit Hours

60 Hours

Course Duration

1 Year (Self-Paced)

Courses Offered

10

Courses Offered In MASTERS DEGREE

  • Courses Name

  • Courses Description

  • Credit Hours

  • Sociology

  • Sociology is a comprehensive course that offers you a global perspective to help you better understand your own lives, provides strong focus on social diversity that allows you to see the impact of race, class, and gender, and focuses

  • 6 Credits

  • Economics

  • This Economics course engages you with familiar real-world examples and applications that bring economics to life. The course explains you with easy-to-understand concepts that how economics is a part of your everyday life, and how it can be a useful tool in making personal decisions and evaluating policy decisions. 

  • 6 Credits

  • English Literature

  • English Literature course is an introduction to reading and writing, it’s founded on the principles of writing about literature. This course emphasizes literature, critical thinking, and the writing process. You learn how thinking, reading, and writing relate to one another by studying poetry, fiction, drama, art, music, and film.

  • 6 Credits

  • Mass Communication

  • This course retains the emphasis on the challenges of today's media while building on its extensive coverage of media history, effects, technology, and culture. The five part-organization-the media, media channels, media messages, media effects and media issues-provides a framework for you to understand the big picture behind today's media issues.

  • 6 Credits

  • World History

  • World History course present the big picture, to facilitate comparison and assessment of change, and to highlight major developments in world's history. This course emphasizes the global interactions of major civilizations so that you can compare and assess changes in the patterns of interaction and the impact of global forces.

  • 6 Credits

  • Applied Social Psychology

  • Presented with a multicultural perspective, this course presents research and concepts about culture, ethnic minorities, and established principles as they relate to standard topics of social psychology. The course reflects the field's diverse methods for conducting research. Context-setting introductions encourage you to carefully consider each topic's applications-and implications.

  • 6 Credits

  • Industrial Sociology

  • This course uses a dual approach to introduce an analysis of work in industrial societies. It analyzes how industrial societies and specific contemporary industrial societies evolved. Using actual situations to provide a real-world context, the course encourages you to consider the questions inherent to industrial societies. 

  • 6 Credits

  • Advanced Sociology

  • This course offers an integrated social science view of the world, emphasizing that social change is the pervasive reality of our era. This course also illustrates the increasing fragmentation of the social order, which leads people away from community and a common purpose to conflict and disunity.

  • 6 Credits

  • Methods of Analysis in Inequality

  • This course provides introduction to research methods. Includes discussions about scientific methods; incorporates common types of research models. It provides coverage of research process, problem-selection, sampling and generalizability. It describes how to collect and analyze data, and provides thorough instruction on how to prepare and write research proposal and manuscript.

  • 6 Credits

  • Contemporary Social Theory Application

  • This course examines contemporary sociological theory as it emerged in the 20th century and developed into the present day. Major thinkers will be introduced and you will develop an understanding of how to relate theory to contemporary social experience. Cutting edge developments in Marxist theory are also examined.

  • 6 Credits
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Sociology

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The sociological perspective
    Sociological investigation
    Culture
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Society
    Socialization
    Social interaction in everyday life
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Groups and organizations
    Sexuality and society
    Deviance
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Social stratification
    Social class in the united states
    Global stratification
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Gender stratification
    Race and ethnicity
    Aging and the elderly
    The economy and work
    Politics and government
    Families
    Religion
    Education
    Health and medicine
    Population, urbanization, and the environment
    Collective behavior and social movements
    Social change: traditional, modern, and postmodern societies

Economics

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The economic perspective.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Production and trade.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Demand and supply.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The power of prices.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Measuring national output.

English literature

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Fiction: an overview.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Structure: the organization of stories.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Characters: the people in fiction.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Point of view: the position or stance of the works narrator or speaker.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Setting: the background of place, objects, and culture in stories.
    Tone and style: the words that convey attitudes in fiction.
    Symbolism and allegory: keys to extended meaning.
    Idea or theme: the meaning and the message in fiction.
    Six stories for additional enjoyment and study.
    Meeting poetry: an overview.

Mass communication

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Mass media literacy
    Books
    Newspapers
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Magazines
    Sound recording
    Movies
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Radio
    Television
    Internet
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    News
    Public relations
    Advertising
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Entertainment
    Research
    Mass communication
    Mass media effects
    Mass media and society
    Global mass media
    Mass media and governance
    Law
    Ethics
    Visual messages
    Media and political systems

World History

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    From human prehistory to the rise of agriculture
    Early civilization
    Nomadic societies
    Classical civilization: china
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Classical civilization: india
    Classical civilization in the mediterranean: persia, greece and rome
    The classical period: directions, diversities, and declines by 500 c.e.
    The rise of islam: civilization in the middle east
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    India and southeast asia under the impact of islam
    Africa and islam
    East european civilization: byzantium and russia
    Western civilization: the middle ages
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The spread of east asian civilization
    Centers of civilization in the americas
    The mongol interlude and the end of the postclassical period
    The west and the world: discovery, colonization, and trade
    Western civilization changes shape in the early modern centuries
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The rise of eastern europe
    The ottoman and mughal empires
    East asia: vital trends in politics and trade
    The first industrial revolution: western society, 17801914
    World economy and western imperialism: africa and south asia
    The settler societies: the west on frontiers
    The development of latin american civilization
    The middle east and china in the imperialist century
    Russia and japan: industrialization outside the west
    World war i and the end of an era
    The west in the contemporary period
    Eastern european civilization
    East asia in the 20th- 22nd centuries
    India and southeast asia

Applied Social Psychology

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The study of culture, ethnicity, and race in american psychology,
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    -most of the subjects were white and middle class-: trends in published research on african americans in selected apa journals, 1970-1989,
    Standing out and standing in: the psychology of control in america and japan,
    Token status and problem-solving deficits: detrimental effects of distinctiveness and performance monitoring,
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Perceptions of social responsibilities in india and in the united states: moral imperatives or personal decisions?,
    Universals and cultural differences in the judgments of facial expressions of emotions,
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Culture and the self: implications for cognition, emotion, and motivation,
    Persuasion and culture: advertising appeals in individualistic and collectivistic societies,
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Psychological impact of biculturalism: evidence and theory,
    Negotiating social identity when contexts change: maintaining identification and responding to threat,
    Collectivism-individualism in everyday social life: the middle kingdom and the melting pot,
    Individualistic and collectivistic perspectives on gender and the cultural context of love and intimacy,
    Cooperation-competition and self-esteem: a case of cultural relativism,
    Violence and u.s. regional culture,
    Race and the schooling of black americans,
    The sociocultural context of african-american and white american women's rape,

Industrial Sociology

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Industrial sociology.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Early societies.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Pre-industrial europe.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The industrial revolution.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Social and economic characteristics of industrial societies.
    Forms of industrial relations.

Advanced Sociology

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Through the lens of science.
    In the beginning . . .
    Culture: product and guide to life in society.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Group interaction: from two to millions.
    Becoming a person: the birth of personality.
    Deviance and criminality: the need for social control.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    The great divide: ranking and stratification.
    Minority status : race and ethnicity.
    Minority status: age, gender, and sexuality.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    From the plow to the computer: change, collective behavior, and social movements.
    Population, urbanization, and environment.
    Pivotal institutions: marriage and the family.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Pivotal institutions: religion and education.
    Government: the institution and the ideologies that underlie it.
    The government of the united states of america.
    Democracy in action: we the people and hellip;.
    The economy: concepts and history.
    Principles of economic behavior : microeconomics and macroeconomics.
    Nation among nations: perspectives on international relations.

Methods of Analysis in Inequality

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The role and importance of research.
    The research process: coming to terms.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Selecting a problem and reviewing the research. part 2:
    Sampling and generalizability.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Measurement, reliability, and validity.
    Methods of measuring behavior.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Data collection and descriptive statistics.
    Introducing inferential statistics.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Nonexperimental research: descriptive and correlational methods.
    Nonexperimental research: qualitative methods.
    Pre- and true experimental research methods.
    Quasi-experimental research : a close cousin to true experimental research.
    Writing a research proposal. 14. writing a research manuscript.

Contemporary Social Theory Application

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The contemporary relevance of old theories.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The janus-faced nature of society.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Private lives and public connections.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Separatism and status.
    Cynicism, distrust, and corruption
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Commodification and the value of human life.
    The polarization of economic resources.