SOC 4978V is also offered in Spring 2024
SOC 4978V is also offered in Spring 2023
SOC 4978V is also offered in Spring 2022
Spring 2015 | SOC 4978V Section 001: Senior Honors Proseminar II (47192)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- Department Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Delivery Medium
Honors
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
UMTC, West Bank
Social Sciences Building 1183
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Developing the methodology of senior project, researching it, and writing the thesis. Students work individually or in small groups in consultation with seminar director and other faculty. Group discussion of individual projects. prereq: [4977V or instr consent], 3701, 3801, 3811, at least 9 additional upper div soc cr, sr soc honors major, dept consent
- Class Notes:
- Must obtain permission number from instructor to register.
- Class Description:
- The Senior Honors Proseminar I is the second of two courses designed for honors students majoring in sociology. Students in Sociology 4978 will conduct their empirical analyses, write the results, discussion, and conclusion sections of their theses, and develop a plan for disseminating their research. By the end of the semester, students will have unified the component parts of their thesis into a coherent whole and defended it before a three-person faculty committee. The course will operate as a seminar, with students leading discussions and critiquing their peers. In the first (Fall) Senior Proseminar, we emphasized conceptualization and measurement. Students narrowed their topic to a thesis-sized research question, identified or secured the data and permissions necessary to proceed with their work, identified their thesis committee, and (in some cases) taken their first cut at the analysis. In the second (Spring) Senior Proseminar, they focus on executing, writing, and rewriting the thesis.
- Grading:
- 75% Reports/Papers
10% Special Projects
5% In-class Presentations
10% Class Participation Other Grading Information: ? 50% Final Thesis ? 10% Results section draft ? 15% Discussion section/Complete draft ? 5% Oral presentation ? 10% Two written critiques and proofreading (5% each) ? 10% Participation and short exercises
- Exam Format:
- None
- Class Format:
- 15% Lecture
5% Film/Video
40% Discussion
10% Laboratory
10% Small Group Activities
10% Student Presentations
10% Demonstration Individual meetings with instructor to discuss your work
- Workload:
- 25 Pages Reading Per Week
65 Pages Writing Per Term
1 Paper(s)
2 Presentation(s)
Other Workload: Individual meetings with course instructor and committee
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/47192/1153
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 3 December 2014
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