COURSE NAME: Sociology, Introduction to

SCHOOL DISTRICT: Schalmont

INSTRUCTOR: Bronson Knaggs

HALF YEAR:

COURSE PREREQUISITES: Juniors or seniors who are serious students.

BRIEF COURSE DESCRIPTION / OUTLINE: 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/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.

OTHER NOTES / MISCELLANEOUS:
Students will make use of assigned Blackboard accounts and must have access to the Internet outside of
class.

Instructional methods used will be lectures, guest speakers, classroom and on-line discussions, reading,
web-quests, visual media presentations, PowerPoint presentations, and testing.

Evaluation methods used will be written examinations, on-line assessments, on-line discussion boards,
vocabulary quizzes, test, and term projects.

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