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
- Michael A. Caulfield, Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers (2017), Part I (‘Four Strategies and a Habit’); Part II (‘Look for Previous Work’), Sections 1 (‘How to Use Previous Work’), 2 (‘Fact-Checking Sites’), 3 (‘Wikipedia’); Part III, Section 1 (‘Going Upstream to Find the Source’); Part IV (‘Reading Laterally’), Sections 1 (‘What Reading Laterally Means’), 18 (‘Basic Techniques: Web Domains, WHOIS’); 20 (‘Stupid Journal Tricks’); 21 (‘Finding a Journal’s Impact Factor’); 22 (‘Using Google Scholar to Evaluate Author Expertise’), 23 (‘How to Think About Research’), 25 (‘Choosing Your Experts First’), 26 (‘Evaluating News Sources’), 27 (‘National Newspapers of Record’), [Part VI (‘Field Guide: Unfinished Articles’)
