Course Title: Introduction to Sociology

School District: Schalmont School District

Instructor: Bronson Knaggs
Phone Number: (518) 355-6110 ext. 3520
E-Mail - bknaggs@sabrenet.net

Half-Year Course Credit Hours: 3

Maximum Total Class Enrollment - All Sites: 24

Course Prerequisites: Juniors or seniors who are serious students.

Final Exam Required: Yes

Course Description and Objectives: A systematic introduction to the major sociological concepts for
understanding the structure and dynamics of contemporary society. Major topics include an introduction
to social methods of inquiry, major schools of thought, culture, social structure, socialization, self and
social interaction, groups and social organizations, and racial and ethnic relations.

Students will learn more about their interactions with other people and with social institutions as they
proceed through this area of study. Students will participate in various classroom activities, complete
a final project, and take quizzes and tests in order to be evaluated in this course.

Students will receive a grade each quarter worth 40% of their final grade. Each student will complete a
final exam worth 20% of his or her course grade at the end of the semester.

Upon completion of this course students should be able to; credit specific individuals with the emergence
of sociology as a field of social science, understand, research, and evaluate major sociological concepts in
contemporary society; identify and define various sociological concepts through sociological perspectives;
comprehend the role of social institutions in our society, explain social inequalities

Equipment/Materials/Media:
Students will make use of assigned Blackboard accounts and must have access to the Internet outside of
class.

Instructional Methods:
Lectures, guest speakers, classroom and on-line discussions, reading, web-quests, visual media
presentations, PowerPoint presentations, testing.

Evaluation Methods:
Written examinations, on-line assessments, on-line discussion boards, vocabulary quizzes, test, and
term projects.

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