Spring 2020 | SOC 8090 Section 001: Topics in Sociology -- Sociology & Its Publics (65584)
- Instructor(s)
- Christopher Uggen (Proxy)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 1.5 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- Instructor Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- Topics Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/21/2020 - 05/04/2020Fri 10:00AM - 11:30AMUMTC, West BankSocial Sciences Building 1114
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (4 of 12 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Topics specified in Class Schedule. prereq: instr consent
- Class Notes:
- By instructor consent. Click on these links for more detailed course information: http://classinfo.umn.edu/?hartm021+SOC8090+Spring2020 http://classinfo.umn.edu/?uggen001+SOC8090+Spring2020
- Class Description:
Students in this workshop will serve as the graduate student board for The Society Pages, an online social science journalism project housed at the University of Minnesota. Participation is based on application. In addition to experience and qualifications, the board is selected so as to involve students from different stages in the program, substantive interest areas, and methodological specialties. Most participants are expected to make a year-long commitment to the project, though membership will rotate on an annual basis.- Who Should Take This Class?:
- Graduate students in sociology
- Learning Objectives:
To deepen students' substantive research expertise
by engaging cutting edge sociological scholarship. Students will unearth the most interesting findings and best evidence from new research in their areas of study. This provides students with a broader vision of the sociological field and offers an opportunity to diversify their reading in the prelim and dissertation processes.To develop writing and communication skills
in addressing academic and non-academic audiences. Grad board members regularly write for the website, and our supportive, professional editorial team gives direct feedback designed to improve these skills as the pieces are published online.
To gain deep, practical appreciation of the process of editorial decision-making
and public scholarship.
TSP
had almost 11 million unique page views last year. Working with the site allows students to engage in critical and constructive discussion of the field of sociology, while participating in a collaborative public outreach project by shaping and improving the site as an online vehicle to disseminate great research.
- Class Format:
- Weekly seminar
- Workload:
- 4-6 hours a week
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/65584/1203
- Past Syllabi:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/syllabi/hartm021_uggen001_SOC8090_Spring2024.docx (Spring 2024)
http://classinfo.umn.edu/syllabi/hartm021_uggen001_SOC8090_Fall2023.pdf (Fall 2023)
http://classinfo.umn.edu/syllabi/hartm021_uggen001_SOC8090_Fall2021.pdf (Fall 2021) - Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 10 March 2017
Spring 2020 | SOC 8090 Section 003: Topics in Sociology -- Getting Your Paper Published (65781)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- Instructor Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- Topics Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/21/2020 - 05/04/2020Tue 11:45AM - 02:15PMUMTC, West BankSocial Sciences Building 1183
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (4 of 15 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Topics specified in Class Schedule. prereq: instr consent
- Class Notes:
- By instructor consent. 5 seats reserved for Sociology grad students. Click on these links for more detailed course information: http://classinfo.umn.edu/?warre046+SOC8090+Spring2020
- Class Description:
Graduate students in this course will submit a paper to an academic journal by the end of the semester.
Students should start the semester with (1) a research project that is essentially completed but (2) a manuscript describing that research that has not been started or is not very far along. The objective of the course is to help students develop a strong, persuasive, and publishable research manuscript.
The class is open to students who use any methodological and theoretical approaches, who study any substantive topic, and who are from any discipline or program.
Throughout the class, students will develop their manuscripts through writing and revising based on the instructor's and their classmates' feedback and examples.
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- Any graduate student who has essentially completed some research project but who does not have a well developed manuscript describing that research.
- Learning Objectives:
- Fully experiencing the process of developing a research paper that is of the style and quality sufficient to submit to an academic journal.
- Grading:
- Students will be evaluated based on (1) their work developing a research manuscript for submission to an academic journal and (2) the quality of their feedback on their classmates' manuscripts.
- Exam Format:
- Not applicable.
- Class Format:
- Each class session will consist of in depth discussions of one or two students' manuscripts, which the class will read ahead of time.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/65781/1203
- Syllabus:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/syllabi/warre046_SOC8090_Spring2020.pdf
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 5 January 2020
Spring 2020 | SOC 8090 Section 004: Topics in Sociology -- Advanced Topics in Sociological Research & Writing (66218)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- Instructor Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- Topics Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/21/2020 - 05/04/2020Wed 11:45AM - 02:15PMUMTC, West BankSocial Sciences Building 1114
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (5 of 12 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Topics specified in Class Schedule. prereq: instr consent
- Class Notes:
- 5 seats reserved for Sociology grad students. Click on these links for more detailed course information: http://classinfo.umn.edu/?page+SOC8090+Spring2020
- Class Description:
- This is a unique, one-time only grad seminar on the craft of writing. The goals of this class are threefold: 1. Identify good writing, 2. Explore what makes writing good, and 3. Practice good writing. To those ends, we'll read and discuss good writing, including fiction, narrative non-fiction, and social science. We will also meet with professional writers and editors.
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- This 3-credit seminar is reserved for sociology graduate students, and my consent is required for enrollment. There are no prerequisites.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/66218/1203
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 4 November 2019
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