Course Objectives:
1. To develop a sociological perspective on social behavior that is based on the scientific method rather than common sense.
2. To identify fundamental patterns of conflict that is present in our society as well as social order and integration.
3. To understand some of the underlying causes of what we call social problems and to see how
sociological data enter into policy decisions.
4. To become a more informed consumer of social science data.
5. To gain insight into the social behavior of other people in other cultures and adopt a position of
cultural relativism.
6. To understand the process of socialization and how we become social beings.
7. To become aware of the different ways in which people act, feel, think, and define their situations based on their “sex, class, age, ethnic group, geographic region and nationality.”
8. To become aware of the impact of social institutions.
9. To improve writing skills in terms of content and ideas: structure (sentence and paragraphical development) and mechanics through assignments and sociological exercises.
Welcome to my blog
The purpose of taking this course is to come up with new ideas of presenting my online SOC101 course. I find the way that I am presenting it a tad boring to me, I can't imagine what my students think.
Although this is my first time teaching online using Blackboard I am discovering some very interesting things. I completed my master's degree online through the University of Phoenix. There is a big difference in being an online student and being an online instructor. I am finding a lot of students who don't like that I facilitate the course weekly requiring weekly accountability. Many of my students have overflowed their plates (like myself) and are struggling to keep their head above water, but thought adding an online class would be easy.
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About Me
- Barbara
- Oh goodness, where to begin. I have been adjunct faculty for two years, teaching Sociology. I primarily work for Glendale CC, usually pick up a class for Mesa Red Mountain every semester, I have also taught at South Mountain CC. I am teaching my first online SOC101 course for GCC using Blackboard. I think my class is a little (okay a lot) boring so I took this course to try and jazz it up a bit. And because I have so much free time (haha). I am also a licensed real estate agent and I work full-time in North Scottsdale.
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Wow...I'm thinking blogs could be really useful to your students. They can be learning logs/diaries that would allow them to reflect on their various social interactions. I also wonder if you can get students to take advantage of all the cool mobile technologies that would allow them to easily move stuff from their cell phones (pictures, videos, voice recordings, even micro-blogs) that they instantly capture and/or reflect on what they experience. If any of this sounds crazily interesting, I will happily take some more time explaining what tools and how/why I think you and your students might like them.
Humm...I'm even thinking you can have them present multi-modal projects (videos, slide shows, podcasts, etc.). Such cool possibilities with these outcomes.
I think you're right there are more cool things that I can do. I remember in college I had this college instructor that made us construct web-pages that wrapped up the entire semester. It was a great sense of accomplishment in the end and I could email the web link to my friends an family for their input.
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