This course aims to inculcate students with the basic reading skills that are necessary for understanding sociological literature, and in this way to acquaint students with the distinctive approach of sociology as an academic discipline and a way of seeing. Foundational concepts such as culture and social interaction are introduced by way of intensively reading elementary and classic texts. By the time the students finish this course, they should be able to read and analyze sociological texts with a reasonable level of language proficiency and intellectual literacy.

CILO-1: Acquire reading skills such as differentiating different types and styles of texts, identifying the intents of the author and the communicative objectives of the texts, increasing the reading speed, recognizing the differences between evidence/data, opinions, arguments, analysis and conclusion. CILO-2: Evaluate academic texts in sociology and general social sciences critically. CILO-3: Write literature review in scholarly convention and present research data and findings visually.