2020su-apmodr1730g-06

AP/MODR1730 6.0 G: Reasoning About Social Issues

Offered by: MODR


 Session

Summer 2020

 Term

SU

Format

ONLN (Fully Online)

Instructor

Calendar Description / Prerequisite / Co-Requisite

This is a skills-based course focusing on critical thinking, research-based writing, and qualitative and quantitative analysis. The particular focus will be on different positions taken within the social sciences on issues such as abortion, euthanasia, pornography, immigration etc. Typical examples are to be analyzed. Course credit exclusions: AP/MODR 1760 6.00, AP/MODR 1770 6.00.


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    Additional Course Instructor/Contact Details

Philip MacEwen

pmacewen@yorku.ca

    Expanded Course Description

This course introduces students to a variety of critical skills and uses them to study some major social issues of our time

    Required Course Text / Readings

All the course texts/readings will be posted on the course Moodle site

    Weighting of Course

Five short writing assignments, each worth 20% of the final grade (5 x 20%=100%).

    Organization of the Course

The course is divided into three sections: 1) logic, argument, and the fallacies; 2) conceptual analysis, and 3) the application of 1) and 2) to studying some of the major social issues of our time.

    Course Learning Objectives

Students will learn how to think, read, and write critically and use these skills to analyze some of the major social issues of our time.

    Additional Information / Notes

The Senate Grading Scheme and Feedback Policy stipulates that  (a) the grading scheme (i.e. kinds and weights of assignments, essays, exams, etc.) be announced, and be available in writing, within the first two weeks of class, and that, (b) under normal circumstances, graded feedback worth at least 15% of the final grade for Fall, Winter or Summer Term, and 30% for ‘full year’ courses offered in the Fall/Winter Term be received by students in all courses prior to the final withdrawal date from a course without receiving a grade (see the policy for exceptions to this aspect of the policy - http://www.yorku.ca/secretariat/legislation/senate/gradfeed.htm 

 

 “Final course grades may be adjusted to conform to Program or Faculty grades distribution profiles.”

If Term Test will be held outside of regularly scheduled class time, include announcement of day, date and time here (e.g., Saturday, October 28, 2006, 10 am to 11:30, room TBA). 

 

     "20 % Rule"

No examination or test worth more than 20% of the final grade will be given during the last two weeks of classes in a term, with the exception of classes which regularly meet Friday evenings or on the weekend (Saturday and/or Sunday at any time). (Approved by Senate, November 28, 1996)

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