Welcome to SOC 1101! I’m Professor George Murray, and this space will tell you everything you need to know in order to walk into each day of class fully prepared. So here’s our agenda for the first day of class:
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
- Attendance and Introductions
- Prologue: What Is Sociology?
- Ten Things You Should Understand (Better) After This Course
- Low-Stakes Writing Assignment: What Are Your Goals for the Course?
- For Next Time
For Next Time
- C. Wright Mills, ‘The Promise’ (Mills 2000)
