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Bachelor of Arts Sociology

Introduction

Students registered under Sociology and Anthropolgy programmes, take courses in Both Sociology and Anthropology  in first and second year of study.They specialize in their third year of study leading to award of degree either in Bachelor of  Arts  Sociology with IT or Bachelor of Arts  in Anthropolgy with IT.

 

Programme Courses

FIRST YEAR  FIRST SEMESTER 
 

ASO 101

Introduction to Sociology

ASO 103

Introduction to Social Psychology

ASO 105

Introduction to Communication and Survival Skills

ASA 101

Introduction to Anthropology

ASA 103

Introduction to Anthropology

ASA 105

Introduction to Ethnology

 

FIRST YEAR  SECOND    SEMESTER
 

ASO 102

Introduction to Social Statistics I

ASO 104

Introduction to Crime and Deviance

ASO 108

Social Work Practice

ASA 102

Linguistic Anthropology

ASA 104

Cultural Anthropology

ASA 106

Anthropology and conflict resolution

 

SECOND YEAR FIRST SEMESTER 

 

ASO 201

Classical Sociological Theories

ASO 203

Social Research Methods I

ASO 205

Environmental Sociology

ASA 201

Comparative ethnography

ASA 203

History of anthropological thought

ASA 205

Political Anthropology

 

SECOND YEAR SECOND SEMESTER

 

ASO 202

Rural Sociology and Development

ASO 204

Kenyan Social Welfare System

ASO 208

Community Development

ASA 202

Urban Anthropology 

ASA 204

Ethnicity and Nationalism

ASA 208

Ecological Anthropology

 

THIRD YEAR FIRST  SEMESTER 

 

ASO 301

Contemporary Sociological Theories

ASO 303

Social Research Methods II

ASO 305

Social Change and Development

ASO 307

Social Policy

ASO 309

Sociology of Poverty 

ASO 311

Drug Abuse and Rehabilitation

 

THIRD YEAR SECOND SEMESTER 

 

ASO 302

Social Statistics II

ASO 304

Sociology of the Family

ASO 306

Sociology of Formal Organizations

ASO 308

Social Security & Welfare Administration

ASO 310

Project Monitoring and Evaluation

ASO 312

Sociology of Religion

 

THIRD YEAR THIRD SEMESTER 

 

 

Industrial Attachment

 

FOURTH YEAR FIRST SEMESTER

 

ASO 401

Class, Power and Inequality

ASO 403

Sociology of cultural Relations

ASO 405

Sociology of Medicine

ASO 407

Counseling 

ASO 409

Sociology of Ageing

ASO 411

Sociology of Law

 

FOURTH YEAR SECOND SEMESTER

 

ASO 4O2

Labour, Welfare and Industrial Relations

ASO 406

Sociology of Development

ASO 408

Sociology of Industrialization

ASO 410

Political Sociology

ASO 412

Social Demography

ASO 414

Social Aspects of Science and Technology