Soc 101

Syllabus

Grading Rubric for Essays

How to Write the Essays

How to do Well on the Quizzes

How to Read the Assigned Chapters

Week #1:

Ch 1:

Sociology: Perspective, Theory, and Method

Film: The Sociological Perspective (must view films in IMS viewing room: DP 1815)

Film Discussion Questions

Test

Writing Assignment

Week #2:

Ch 2:

Culture

Film: The Amish: A People of Preservation (must view films in IMS viewing room: DP 1815)

Film Discussion Questions

Test

Writing Assignment

Week #3:

Ch 3:

Socialization: From Infancy to Old Age

Stages in the Life Course Project

Film: Raising Cain (must view films in IMS viewing room: DP 1815)

Film Discussion Questions

Test

Writing Assignment

Week #4:

Ch 4

Social Interaction in Everyday Life

Film: Bound for Baghdad: Devil Dog Diaries (must view films in IMS viewing room: DP 1815)

Film Discussion Questions

Test

Writing Assignment

Week #5:

Ch 7:

Deviance

Film: Milgrim's Obedience Experiment (must view films in IMS viewing room: DP 1815)

Film Discussion Questions

Test

Writing Assignment

Week #7:

Ch 11:

Race and Ethnicity

Website: Race: The Power of an Illusion (Please Study)

Film: Skin Deep (must view films in IMS viewing room: DP 1815)

Test

Writing Assignment

Week #9

Ch 13:

Family

(omit Religion from your reading)

Marriage Survey

Films: Both of My Moms' Names are Judy (must view films in IMS viewing room: DP 1815)

Film Discussion Questions

Test

Writing Assignment

Week #10:

Ch 14:

Education

(omit Health and Medicine from your reading)

Eric Research project

Film: Two Schools of Thought: U.S. and Japan (must view films in IMS viewing room: DP 1815)

Film Discussion Questions

Short Literature Review based on Eric Research Project

Week #11

Final Comprehensive Exam to be taken in Testing Center on Agreed Upon Date