SOC 4977V is also offered in Fall 2024
SOC 4977V is also offered in Fall 2023
SOC 4977V is also offered in Fall 2022
SOC 4977V is also offered in Fall 2021
Fall 2024 | SOC 4977V Section 001: Senior Honors Proseminar I (17262)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- Department Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Honors
- Enrollment Requirements:
- honors student
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
UMTC, West Bank
Social Sciences Building 915
- Enrollment Status:
Open (9 of 10 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Exploring contemporary research for senior thesis. Guidance in defining a problem and reviewing prior theory/research. Presentation/discussion with faculty researchers. prereq: 3701, 3801, 3811, 9 additional upper div sociology cr, sr soc honors major, dept consent
- Class Notes:
- Must obtain permission number from Department office to register. All seats reserved for Honors students majoring in Sociology. Click this link for more detailed course information: http://classinfo.umn.edu/?gerte004+SOC4977V+Fall2024
- Class Description:
- The Senior Honors project sequence is designed to help students in the process of researching and writing the Honors Thesis in sociology. The first semester is a seminar-format course dedicated to a set of interrelated goals: (1) thinking through the relationship between our personal biographies and our intellectual interests; (2) identifying and sharpening research topics and questions; (3) finding the relevant social scientific research, mastering it, and locating our interests in relation to it; (4) producing an initial research proposal; (5) considering and addressing the ethics of research concerning human subjects; and (6) finalizing a plan of research which will guide our research as we work toward the final paper. In the Spring semester, students are working primarily with their thesis supervisor under directed studies credits as they engage in in the process of collecting and analyzing data, drafting and polishing written work into a full thesis paper, and presenting the work.
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- Honors students in Sociology entering their senior year, or (with departmental permission) other Sociology majors who wish to engage in substantial original research projects.
- Learning Objectives:
- Students in this class will learn to: a) formulate sociological research questions; b) identify appropriate methods and find relevant literatures; c) build a research proposal in conversation with existing work.
- Grading:
- 80% Reports/Papers
20% Class Participation
- Exam Format:
- No exams.
- Class Format:
- 40% Discussion
40% Small Group Activities
20% Student Presentations
- Workload:
- 20-30 Pages Reading Per Week
15-20 Pages Writing Per Term
4 Reports
2 Presentations Other Workload: Much of the work for the course is done on your own, to further the projects you will outline. Coursework is designed to help you on that path.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/17262/1249
- Syllabus:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/syllabi/gerte004_SOC4977V_Fall2024.pdf
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 April 2024
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