Make up class-3 What did I learn from this class?

After 14 weeks of classes 

 Throughout 14 weeks of “Invitation to Sociology” class, I was able to grasp a bit of sociology. I think I can step on sociology through this class. At first, I had a lot of worries because I took a difficult sociology class in English. Sociology itself is difficult, but I wondered if I could understand it if I learned it in English, not in Korean. But after 14 weeks of classes, I think I got more help thanks to English instead of Korean. As it was conducted in English, I invested more time and effort, and I think I was able to grow as much as I invested a lot of time and effort. It is still difficult to understand and listen to English class, but I thought I now have some what confidence that I might be able to catch up with English major classes if I try hard through this class.

 This class also made me interested in sociology. It can be thought that learning is very difficult, professional, and old-fashioned. However, I think I became more interested because I was given a lot of opportunities to think about sociology as a class to participate and explore rather than just listening. I found out that we are more familiar with our daily lives than we thought and that it is not just as difficult as we think. And I think I got curious about the society we live in.

 Especially, I liked it because I could taste various colors of sociology, not only in Korea. And it was really nice to see other friends' thoughts and opinions as well as upload my thoughts through blog activity. I don't have many opportunities to listen to other friends' thoughts or stories about a topic, so I think this class helped me learn more about my friends.

 Thanks to the class, I found out that Wikipedia has so much information. It was sad that many Wikipedia articles are written in English and Korean documents are often poor in information. Although due to Covid19 we unwillingly had to have online classes instead of face-to-face classes, it was good to learn a lot during the semester. I think the class was more interesting by using various media that other classes do not use.

Thank you so much Professor Piotr for the great class this semester! 😊

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