Nice to meet you all today. Introductions ate up a good bit of time, so we’ll go over the syllabus and do a broad course overview on Wednesday.
Prep
- Ground Rules for the Classroom
- Caroline Hodges Persell, Kathryn M. Pfeiffer, and Ali Syed, ‘What Should Students Learn After Taking Intro Sociology?’, Teaching Sociology 35 (October 2007)
In Class
- Low-Stakes Writing Assignment: What Are Your Goals for the Course?
- Prologue: What Is Sociology?
- Ten Things You Should Understand (Better) After This Course
- Review for the Final
- Review of the Syllabus
- For Next Time
For Next Time
- C. Wright Mills, ‘The Promise’ (Mills 2000)