Welcome to Sociology!
You are all sociologists, but many of you don’t know it yet. This course is designed to help you develop your “sociological imagination” and to analyze sociological concepts that many of us take for granted. One of the major requirements for this course is an open mind.
There are many advantages to taking hybrid courses. You have the structure of meeting regularly in the classroom, but some flexibility of doing some work online.
We will meet every Monday and Wednesday for the entire semester. We will not meet on Fridays. Instead, you will be required to complete work online. Your classroom attendance is required. We will talk more about this when we meet on the first day of class.
I look forward to working with you all this semester.
Best, Max Probst
Orientation: There will be orientation information posted on our canvas site to familiarize you with the objectives and requirements of the course. We will go over the class syllabus and format in the classroom on the first day.
Course Objective: To expose students to basic concepts, relationships, and interactions among sociological factors as well as mainstream sociological philosophies and theories. To this end the study guide/course outline will be followed sequentially. The instructor reserves the right to modify the course as deemed prudent and appropriate.
Student Learning Outcomes:
- Define major sociological concepts and identify behaviors studied by sociologists.
- Identify major research techniques in this discipline.
- Discuss the contribution of norms, roles, and culture to the socialization process.
- Identify social variables which contribute to social inequality among groups.
- Identify the primary characteristics of the following social institutions: family, religion, economic, political, and educational.
- Discuss various types of theories which attempt to explain social change.
- Discuss deviance as a sociological phenomenon.
You will need to have access to a computer to participate in the on-line discussion questions and to submit assignments.
Contact With the Professor: Regular and frequent contact with me is encouraged and expected. You should feel free to contact me at any time with questions you may have. My office is in Grupp Hall Room 247 on the Newtown campus. My office phone number is 215-968-8274 or if you are on campus dial Ext: 8274. You can e-mail me on our Canvas site - simply go to the "E-Mail" function and click on 'Compose.' You can also send an email to me directly at max.probst@bucks.edu.
We will be utilizing several features of Canvas, but most frequently the "Discussion" tool and the "Quizzes" link, the "Assignments" link in our course space. Please log into Canvas and review the Student Orientation and Student Materials which are available to students before the start of the semester. The Canvas Basics course can be found at https://bucks.instructure.com/courses/36545. There is no login required. |