Course Overview
               This course aims to impart the students with up-to-date knowledge in Sociology. Specifically, this course aims to begin students' exposure to theoretical, methodological and empirical debates in the discipline and about different facets of Nepali society. While the students will engage primarily with prescribed reading, comprehending, synthesizing and analysing the texts, attention has also beengiven to encourage thern in applying the insights they learn from these texts in understanding contemporary Nepali society (particularly the community) in which they are a member.
               Reading the texts, being active in classr'oom discussions, and making effofts while thinking and writing to link it with key facets of one's society are the three activities the students are expected to engage in as the course progresses.The course has a relatively heavy emphasis onthe practicum (worth 30 full marks out of total 100 in each module and that demands 50 hours equivalent of academic engagement on each paper). In each module, students are required to link the texts they read and discuss in the class with (any part of) society they come from or they are living in. Hence, whereas understanding Sociology is important, their ability to apply such understanding to their own community and society is also important.
                 Finally, to enhance their ability to organize ideas systematically and enable them in writing, and communicate such ideas in effective ways, skills in research and writing have also been emphasized.