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Soc 100
Introduction
to
Sociology
Fall 2009
Instructors: Dr. Gonzalo Santos & Ms. Melanie Hatfield |
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Classroom: DDH-G102 |
Class Time: MWF 12:20 pm - 1:40 pm |
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Offices: DDH-AA205 (GS)/AA204 (MH) |
Phones: 654-2191 (GS)
& 654-2718 (MH) |
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CSU Employee
Furloughs
– Impact on Classes
This year across this campus and around the CSU system some class days
will
be cancelled because of furloughs. A furlough is mandatory un-paid time
off; faculty and staff on each CSU campus are being “furloughed” two
days per month.The CSU has suffered chronic underfunding for at least 10 years. This year the budget cuts are the worst in the history of our university system — $584 million or 20% of our budget. The CSU administration is attempting to deal with these cuts with huge increases in your student fees (32%), eliminations of your classes, and lay-offs of faculty and other university employees. In addition to paying higher fees, you will be affected by reduced services and classes. The library will have shorter hours. Many campus support services will be decreased or eliminated. It will be more difficult to get signatures to meet deadlines. Classes you need may have been cut from the class schedule or are full. In this course, as an alternative to cancelling classes twice a month, we will cancel the mid-term and final exams and reduce the number of office hours. It is important to recognize that these reductions in the quality of your education are not holidays to celebrate. Instead, they are concrete examples of how massive state budget cuts have consequences for you as students and for us as faculty members. If you would like to take action or simply learn more, we recommend you contact the California Faculty Association and your Associated Students leaders on campus. |
Textbook: Robert J. Brym and John Lie, 2010. Sociology:
Your
Compass for a New Word,
Brief, 2nd
ed., Research Update. Wadsworth/ Cenage Learning. ISBN-10: 0495598933.
PLEASE NOTE: If you order on the
web, do not order
the "2007 2nd. brief edition", nor any of the regular, larger versions
of the
book either -- THIS texbook is the 2010 "research updated" version of
the "brief, 2nd. edition"; it's cheaper and all the chapter tests
will be based on it, so you should only order the book that matches
exactly
the ISBN number, which will, by the way, be
available at the Runner
Bookstore soon.
Course
content:
This course is designed to
introduce the field of Sociology to lower
division college students. Students learn why and how the systematic
study of
our contemporary, highly complex social world is important (in fact,
urgently
needed), possible, and rewarding. General areas of interest are
culture;
socialization; social interaction; networks, groups, and organizations;
deviance,
crime, and social control; social stratification; globalization,
inequality,
and development; race and ethnicity; sexuality and gender; family,
collective action
and social movements. Specific social institutions student may choose
to explore include religion, education, politics, work, health and
aging. All
these areas and topics will be approached at three levels:
global/national
(mega), institutional/ethnic (meso), and community/family/individual
(micro).
Classroom
activities: The class meets on Mondays, Wednesdays,
and
Fridays for hour-and-a-half sessions. Attendance is mandatory. We will
cover in
ten weeks twelve chapters from the textbook. Other chapters will be
offered on a voluntary basis, for extra credit. Usually, Dr. Santos on
Fridays, and
Ms.
Hatfield on Mondays and Wednesdays, will lecture, then have class
discussions &
exercises. Occasionally, there
may be a video
shown. The instructors will try to place Power Point presentations on
this web site.
Most of the weeks there is only one chapter assigned, but on two weeks there are two chapters assigned on each of them - see the schedule below.
The tests shall be taken through WebCT (also known as BlackBoard), the campus computer testing service, accessible in the internet (see detailed instructions below). Students are free to test at anytime during the week in which a chapter is assigned, from Monday to Sunday midnight. In fact, students may take chapter tests ahead of the week it is assigned, but NOT fall behind. The tests are one hour long and consist of 20 randomly chosen, multiple-choice/truth-false questions.
Instructions
on Taking Chapter Tests at CSUB's WebCT/BlackBoard:
To
gain access:
go
to the CSUB WebCT/BlackBoard site: click and bookmark the
following URL address:
http://webct.csub.edu/webct/public/home.pl
If
you are doing it from an off campus computer, make sure your browser
is properly configured (click around WebCT support links and read
how you
can ensure your browser is properly configured).
You
will need to know your WebCT ID and password.
All CSUB enrolled students have a "Runner" email account. Your
WebCT
ID is
the
same as
your Runner Mail Logon ID -- that is, whatever prefix goes before
the
"@runner.csub.edu" domain. For example, the WebCT ID for John
Smith (jsmith4@runner.csub.edu) would be jsmith4. Your initial
WebCT
password is the last five digits of your CSUB ID Number.
Once logged
on to WebCT, you will be asked to change it immediately (if you have
used WebCT
before you'll need to enter your old password). Choose an easy to
remember,
easy to type new password. We also suggest that you set up your login
hint immediately - and write all these codes somewhere where
you will not loose them, nor expose them to theft by others.
If
you need help:
If
you don't know your CSUB RunnerMail Logon ID or if you've changed your
password
and have forgotten it, contact the Student Technology Help Desk in the
library
at (661) 654-2315
or the Student Help Desk at
(661) 654-6677, or simply go to the Library, Lower Level Room 1, during
office
hours.
Be
prepared!
The maximum duration for each chapter
test
is 60 minutes. After
each chapter deadline
passes, access to each chapter test will be closed and no late testing
will be
possible. So make sure you have prepared well, chosen a day, time &
place
well, and have ample time and tranquility (with no distractions)
to
begin testing; take time to read carefully each question before
you
answer it - do not rush! (a common mistake). You may take the
test with
the open book, but exclusively on your own, please. Never
plan to take a
test in two or more sittings; plan always to take each test in a single
session (the computer usually freezes incomplete tests).
Save
your answers every time.
If
you change your mind
on a specific answer, don't forget to save
it again! And
don't forget to send your
quiz/test
to grade when you are done (lots of students forget this last step and
their
scores are not computed!).
Cheating Warning: Students are hereby formally forewarned that anybody caught cheating on the tests will automatically fail the course. WebCT has a monitoring capability that automatically "flags" for instructors a variety of potential cheating cases and situations -- including comparing student answers, times of testing, etc..
Extra
Credit: There are several
ways students may obtain extra points:
2)
Extra Chapters: Students can study and test, on a voluntary
basis, on any and all of the four extra chapters in the book that are
not
assigned (Chapters 12, 13, 14, and 16). Students may take as many of
these extra chapter tests as they wish at any time during the course.
The idea is
that by getting better grades on these extra chapters, the students may
improve their overall grade, which is based on the average of all the
tests taken. But beware:
if a student does poorly
on these extra chapter tests, their average score may actually be lowered.
So students should only opt to do extra chapter tests when they are
sure they can commit
the time and effort to doing well
in them.
3) Extra Campus Activities:
Occasionally, students will be encouraged to attend certain events on
campus and write a one-page report on it, for extra credit.
Grading: The average of the twelve
assigned chapter test scores will count for up to 100 points. Extra
(un-assigned) chapter tests, taken on a voluntary basis, may enhance or
lower that average depending on the scores obtained. Other extra credit
will be added, and un-excused absences subtracted, and the final grade
will be assigned according to
the following table:
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94-100 = A |
87-89 = B+ |
77-79 = C+ |
65-69 = D |
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90-93 = A- |
84-86 = B |
74-76 = C |
< 65 = F |
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80-83 = B- |
70-73 = C- |
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| Monday | Wednesday | Friday |
| Sept. 14 | Sept. 16 | Sept. 18 |
| INTRODUCTION TO CLASS | Ch. 1: A Sociological Compass | Ch. 1: A Sociological Compass |
| Sept. 21 | Sept. 23 | Sept. 25 |
| Ch. 2: Culture | Ch. 2: Culture | Ch. 2: Culture |
| Sept. 28 | Sept. 30 | Oct. 2 |
| Ch. 3: Socialization | Ch. 3: Socialization | Ch. 3: Socialization |
| Oct. 5 | Oct. 7 | Oct. 9 |
| Ch. 4: Social Interaction | Ch. 4: Social Interaction | Ch. 4: Social Interaction |
| Oct. 12 | Oct. 14 | Oct. 16 |
| Ch. 5: Networks, Groups, and Organizations | Ch. 5: Networks, Groups, and Organizations | Ch. 5: Networks, Groups, and Organizations |
| Oct. 19 | Oct. 21 | Oct. 23 |
| Ch. 6: Deviance, Crime, and Social Control | Ch. 7: Social Stratification: United States and Global Perpsectives | Ch. 7: Social Stratification: United States and Global Perpsectives |
| Oct. 26 | Oct. 28 | Oct. 30 |
| Ch. 8: Globalization, Inequality, and Development | Ch. 8: Globalization, Inequality, and Development | Ch. 8: Globalization, Inequality, and Development |
| Nov. 2 | Nov. 4 | Nov. 6 |
| Ch. 9: Race and Ethnicity | Ch. 9: Race and Ethnicity | Ch. 9: Race and Ethnicity |
| Nov. 9 | Nov. 11 | Nov. 13 |
| Ch. 10: Sexuality and Gender | HOLIDAY | Ch. 10: Sexuality and Gender |
| Nov. 16 | Nov. 18 | Nov. 20 |
| Ch. 11: Familes | Ch. 15: Collective Action and Social Movements | Ch. 15: Collective Action and Social Movements |