SOC 4966W is also offered in Spring 2025
SOC 4966W is also offered in Fall 2024
SOC 4966W is also offered in Spring 2024
SOC 4966W is also offered in Fall 2023
SOC 4966W is also offered in Spring 2023
SOC 4966W is also offered in Fall 2022
SOC 4966W is also offered in Spring 2022
SOC 4966W is also offered in Fall 2021
Fall 2024 | SOC 4966W Section 001: Capstone Experience: Seminar (17241)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- Instructor Consent:
- Department Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
Community Engaged Learning
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Tue,
Thu 02:30PM - 03:45PM
UMTC, West Bank
Hubert H Humphrey Center 25
- Enrollment Status:
Open (41 of 55 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- This course is designed to: a) provide students with an opportunity to reflect on what they have learned as a sociology major; b) use that knowledge to write a sociological analyses - often based on community service learning; and c) think about how the knowledge, skills, and insights of the sociological enterprise can be used and applied outside of the University. Through this course sociology majors will emphasize the relationship between a sociological perspective and critical thinking, effective communication, and meaningful civic engagement. This class is the final step in the sociology undergraduate major. prereq: 1001, 3701, 3801, 3811, 12 cr upper div sociology, dept consent
- Class Notes:
- Must obtain permission number from Department office to register. Click this link for more detailed course information: http://classinfo.umn.edu/?mgoldman+SOC4966W+Fall2024
- Class Description:
- The purpose of this course is to assist students in fulfilling CLA's senior project requirement, the 'capstone' of the undergraduate career, by creating the learning environment to write a final research paper. Enrollment is limited to student majors in Sociology. The class provides a structure and guided format for completing the senior project. Students select a topic, formulate a research question, read on the topic, conduct preliminary research or use already experienced research, analyze your material and locate within existing debates, and write up the materials as a final analytic paper. Students can choose to focus their project on a new topic, or materials from a previous class, or from an already experienced study abroad, service learning, or employment opportunity. Each week we will discuss specific aspects of the research-and-writing process, so that the final paper will be thought through and written, step by step, throughout the semester. Course work requires intensive engagement in the design of a project and active class discussion of the issues students face in the process.
- Grading:
- 75% final paper
25% weekly short assignments and class participation
- Class Format:
- Class discussion, small group activities, writing exercises, and in-class presentations
- Workload:
- Weekly readings that are mostly related to your own research project; short writing assignments due throughout the semester as building blocks to your final paper; and the final paper, which will be approximately 15 pages
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/17241/1249
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 29 October 2021
ClassInfo Links - Fall 2024 Sociology Classes