Urban Sociology

 

Course Description:

This course serves as a study of fundamental concepts and computational techniques of elementary statistics. Among the topics studied are: measures of central tendency, standard deviation, percentiles, statistical graphs, binomial and normal distributions, probability, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, regression and correlation. A statistical software package will be used by students to obtain basic sample statistics, to simulate fundamental theorems and to assist with hypothesis testing. A graphing calculator will be used by students to assist with computations, as well as with tabular and graphical displays of data.

Reflection:
This course provides students with an overview of the development of cities and how the structure and changing nature of cities have impacted the lives of urban dwellers. The course explored the relationship between the social structure of cities & family life, gender, education, work, ethnicity/race, religion, and politics. It helps me to familiarize myself with how city life impacts the lives of urban dwellers, with particular emphasis on New York City. In the class, we analyzed the changing nature of cities together with our professor. Meantime, it demonstrate the importance of urban planning from a sociological perspective, and demonstrated the value of basic qualitative research when studying urban life, neighborhoods, race/ethnicity, social institutions, and social problems.

“Real Eve” is one of the videos that our professor showed us in our class. It begins with show us that all human beings came from Africa. It is very new idea for me and I believe that for most of our classmates too. It says all the white people and most of the Asian people looks similar but all the black people look different where the researcher believed that all of  mankind come from Africa. It also talked about the origin of the first city and it was in the Middle East.



 

Assignments:

City Research Paper-Seattle

City visual Display

 

 
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