Le Moyne College

SOC 200

Careers, Practice, and Professional Computing for Sociology 
Spring 1998

[Sociologists hard at work]
Sociologists Hard At Work Rationalizing Their Behavior


Instructors:  Robert F. Kelly
Raymond A Bucko, S.J. 
Offices:  RH 414 (Dr. Kelly)
RH 417 (Fr. Bucko) 
Phones:  445-4481 (Dr. Kelly)
445-4594 (Fr. Bucko) 

E-mail: 

 kellyrf (Dr. Kelly)  Mail for Dr. Kelly 

bucko (Fr. Bucko)  Mail for Fr. Bucko 

We check for e-mail several times daily, so if you have any questions or concerns always feel free to send a message. 
Office Hours:  Dr. Kelly:
Monday 9:30-10:15
Wednesday 9:30 - 10:15
Friday 9:30 - 10:15
and by appointment 

Fr. Bucko:
Monday 8:00 - 8:30 AM, 1:30 - 2:30 PM
Tuesday 8:00 AM -10:00 AM 
Wednesday 8:00 AM - 8:30 AM, 1:30 - 2:30 PM
Thursday 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM 
and by appointment 

We keep sign-up sheets on our office doors if you wish to reserve a specific block of office-hour time. If you sign-up for a block of office-hour time and are unable to keep your appointment, we expect you to inform whomever you made the appointment with of this fact in advance so that he can make the time available to another student (Note: messages can be left on our voice-mail service (445-4481- Dr. Kelly, 445-4594 Fr. Bucko), with the College operator (445-4100) or at the appropriate e-mail address). You can certainly expect that we will give you advance notice if we are unable to keep an appointment with you. We are also in most days from 8:30 to 4:30, so always feel free to stop by and we will try to meet with you immediately.
Meeting Times  Monday: 2:30 - 3:20  
Wednesday 2:30 - 3:20 
3-D Classroom Locations   Reilly Hall 445 (computer lab)
 
Virtual Classroom Location:  http://vc.lemoyne.edu 
 
Sociologist At Work I. Course Description and Objectives 

This course focuses on: (1) the discipline and profession of sociology; (2) career exploration and career development skills for undergraduate sociology majors; (3) professional writing skills; (4) graduate and professional school exploration and advising; (5) applied sociology and action anthropology; (6) professional socialization; (7) computer literacy in research and dynamic professional presentation of self both in a secure workspace and on the internet; and (8) professional ethics.

Through this course students will demonstrate that they have certain computer skills essential to their work as sociology majors at Le Moyne, specifically basic familiarity with the ALPHA system (Maple), e-mail, the world wide web, telnet, ftp, and search engines. Students will also gain basic communication skills utilizing the Web (html page authoring) and shared workspace communicating (using our Basic Support for Cooperative Work software). Students will also learn how to use an HTML editor (Webber), a file transfer protocol program (WS_FTP), and a web browser (Netscape).


[Sociologist At Work] II. Reading Materials 

The instructors will provide you with a coursepack and many handouts over the course of the semester. To partially cover the costs of acquiring, preparing, and producing these materials, there will be an $8.00 fee payable by the second week of the term. Also, you are welcome to use The Excellent Vax Manual produced by the college to assist students in using our computing facilities as well as fliers which information system provides (only available on-line).


Sociologist At Work III. Attendance and Participation 

Class Preparation and Participation:

  • Each class meeting in this two-credit course will analyze issues and/or develop skills crucial to your maturation as a professional sociologist. Hence, class attendance and participation are essential. To properly participate, it is essential that you prepare assigned readings before attending class and engage in class discussion. To encourage preparation and participation, we periodically will ask you to write five-minute a response to a question related to the readings of the day's class. These in-class quizzes will be unannounced and contribute to the participation component of your grade. We also will evaluate the quality of your oral class participation, i.e. contributions of informed comments, questions, suggestions to improve the class, and responses to question we pose to individual students. Quality of class preparation and participation is worth 10% of the final grade.
Class attendance:
  • We follow College policy (see Le Moyne College Catalog), i.e. five (5) absences are allowed for a three credit MWF class. This means that four (4) absences are allowed for SOC 200, a two-credit course.

  • If more than four classes are missed, our policy is that two (2) points will be deducted for each class missed in excess of four from the 100 points a student might earn on the final exam. A sign-in sheet will be used to keep attendance once we have learned each others names.

  • If you enter class after the sign-up sheet has gone around (i.e. the first five minutes of class), you may sign in after class, but we will note on the sheet that you were late for class. Two 'late' designations on the sign-up sheets will be treated as one absence.

  • Whenever you are absent for any reason, upon your return you must provide us with an explanation of your absence that you have written and a plan for making up the work you have missed. This written explanation and plan will not result in your absence being 'excused.' Rather, it is our way of assuring that you stay current with class work. Failure to provide this written explanation and make-up plan within in one week after your absence will result in two and a half (2.5) points rather than two (2) being deducted from your final exam, if you have missed more than four classes.

  • Absences beyond the four allowed by college policy will only be treated as 'excused,'i.e. not result in the loss of points on the final exam as discussed above, in substantiated cases of severe illness, family emergency or representation of the college on official business.



[Sociologist At Work] IV Course Requirements and Grading 

NOTE: You must turn in two copies of all written assignments for this class. Failure to do so will result in a 15% discounting of the assignment's grade at the end of the term.
A. Résumé Preparation: It is essential that you develop résumé preparation skills early in your academic and professional career. Hence, the Department requires that you demonstrate that you possess these skills upon completing SOC 200, a course required of all sociology majors. The résumé will become part of your departmental file which is held by your advisor. See Topic 2 for a more detailed discussion of the resume preparation requirement for this course. The resume is worth 10% of your final grade. This resume must be formatted for and posted on the internet. You must also register your resume site with at least one search engine.

B . Applied Sociology Reflection Paper (10% of final grade). See Topic 8 for a description of this assignment.

C . Executive Summary Writing Exercise (10% of final grade). See Topic 12 below.

D. Career Exploration Exercise (15% of final grade). See Topic 16 below.

E . An electronic portfolio on either the BSCW Workspace or an Internet Web Page (15% of final grade). Each student is expected to create a professional quality portfolio utilizing the internet. The student may choose between a personal home page format or, the facilities of the BSCW Workspace. The student is expected to show his/her competence in both areas by completing periodic exercises. The Portfolio must contain the following data: 1) The student's resume formatted in HTML 2) At least one sample of the student's writing 3) A professional picture, 4) at least five links to other internet sites presenting the student's professional interests 5) at least five links to other internet sites to graduate and other professional schools, 7) links to at least five internet sites that have inspired the student in designing his or her own page or priovided instruction beyond what was provided in class.

F.Computer Assignments In the course of the semester, there will be eight short Computer Assignments in addition to Requirement E above. Collectively, these assignments are worth 10% of the final grade.

G . Final Examination (20% of final grade). This exam is scheduled for Friday,May 8 at 4:00 PM in RH 445. After the completion of most major topics on the syllabus, we will hand out sheets with two or three essay questions that may be chosen for the final exam. By the end of the semester, you should have a bank of fifteen or more questions. We encourage you to form study groups to develop wonderful answers to these questions. We encourage the study groups to divide up the work of developing answers to the questions and then to work as a group to critique and improve answers and then to share the results of this group work among the members of the group. The e-mail and interactive messaging of the BSCW (Basic Support for Cooperative Work, the workspace program we will use for this class) should be a great help to individuals and study groups in preparing responses to these questions. On the day of the final exam we will give each of you a randomly selected set of three of the essay questions. We will designate one question that you must answer and you may choose from among the remaining questions a second one to answer. You may not bring your answers or any other materials with you to the examination.
Grading Scale: In determining final grades we use the following scale:

92-100 A 
87-91  B+
82-86 B 
77-81 C+ 
71-76  C 
65-70 D
65-0  F 
  Late Assignments: We will announce due dates for all assignments when they are given. If there are special circumstances that may inhibit you from meeting a deadline you must discuss this with one of us at least three week days prior to the due date. Extensions will only be granted in extreme circumstances. Assignments that are late and have not received an extension will incur the following penalty: Ten percent (10%) of the value of the assignment will be subtracted for each two day period and/or fraction of a two day period that the assignment is late.


Sociologist At Work V. Material Requirements 

You are required to submit the following items to one of your professors:

  • An informal picture of yourself to be scanned for the workspace (due the first week-- the picutre will be returned to you)
  • A professional picture of yourself to be scanned for your professional presentation (due by the third week of class -- the picture will be returned to you).  This need not be a picture of yourself taken by a professional photographer.  This picture should be a formal one in which you are professionally attired.
You are required to bring the following items with you to each computer lab (labs normally meet on Mondays):
  • Two high density 3.5 inch computer disks labeled with your name, course name, and course  number.  One of these disks should be labeled "original" and the other disk should be labeled "backup."  You are expected to keep two copies of all of your work on these disks.  No other school work should be on these disks other than your computer work.  You may carry more than two disks but you are required to have these two.
  • Three file folders.  One should be marked with you name and "BSCW".  A second should be labeled with your name and "HTML".  The third should be labeled with your name and "Programs and Utilities".  This system is intended to help you keep track of the different techniques you will learn for web publishing.  You will be expected to have your notes and print outs of help files you will need to utilize properly sorted out into the correct folders.
  • Loose leaf paper so that you can sort your notes among the three folders.



Sociologist At Work VI. A Note on Mutual Expectations

Over the year, we have found it useful to outline some of the basic expectations we share with our students:

You can expect us to:

  • be on time for class and office hours
  • be prepared for class
  • return tests and papers in a timely fashion
  • be respectful and attentive when you speak
  • tell you when we don't know the answer to a question and to help you find the answer to specific questions
  • give prior notice of any changes made in the syllabus
  • treat you with respect and impartiality
We expect you to:
  • be on time for class and office-hour appointments (Note: When people arrive late for class, they interrupt the work that has begun. If you are late, we believe an explanation is due us immediately after class.)
  • be respectful and attentive when we speak
  • treat each other and us with respect consistent with the norm of academic freedom and the Jesuit tradition's focus on the dignity that is due all individuals
  • not leave class once it has begun unless some truly critical situation arises (Note: If you know you must leave class before the period ends, you should explain this to us before class; if you find that you must leave class without prior notice, you should explain the situation to one of us by the next class meeting.)
  • give us prior notice of important events/conditions (e.g. disabilities, medical conditions, child and other care-providing obligations, work schedules, etc.) in your life that may influence your performance in the class, if you believe that these events/conditions put you at an unfair disadvantage relative to other students and you believe that there is some way in which we can assist you (Note: prior notice is essential. Once exams are taken and papers turned in, our ability to assist you is extremely limited.)
 
[Sociologist At Work] VII. Notice to Students with Disabilities
 
  • If you have a documented disability and wish to discuss academic accommodations, please meet with us within the first week of class or as soon as possible thereafter.

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  • Students who believe that they have a disability that may influence their academic performance, but who have not yet had the disability documented should immediately contact and meet with Ms. Anne Herron, Director of the Academic Support Center. This center also provides resources for all Le Moyne students.


[Sociologists at Rest]
Sociologists Take a Break after Maximizing Their Potential
 

Sociologist At Work

VII. Course Outline

 [Sociologist At Work]
Because many of the topics that we will cover involve cooperating with other divisions of the college, i.e. Career Services, Information Services, etc., it may be necessary to rearrange the order in which we cover the topics listed. If we need to do any rearranging, we will make every effort to give you ample prior notice. Stay tuned to the BSCW site!!

Topic 1- Introduction: Professional Computing at Le Moyne and in the Social Sciences

The ALPHA (also named MAPLE) is the mainframe computer at Le Moyne with which student and faculty social scientists do a great deal of work, in particular, statistical analysis (we deal with statistical analysis in SOC 201), and electronic mail (e-mail). We will also use Windows 3.11 to access programs mecessary to produce and post your own web pages. You should already have a computer account at Le Moyne. If you do not have one please apply for one at Information Systems as soon as possible.

[carrot]Student Survey: If you are registered for this course for the SPRING SEMESTER of 1998 please take the time to fill out this survey. This information will be kept confidential by the professor and is for use in contacting you in an emergency and in gearing the course to your specific needs and interests. Simply fill in each box and then press the submit button and the survey will be mailed to your professor.

Computer Assignment #1 Due one week after this topic is covered. For each of these assignments you are expected to print out this form, indicate which computer tasks you have completed successfully, and submit it to the professor the week after the class takes place. You may sign up for office hours if you have difficulty with any of the tasks. You receive a ++ grade for completing all the requirements, a + grade for completing all the assignments except one, and a - grade for missing more than one requirement or for failing to hand in the form on time.

Readings:
  • The Le Moyne College Virtual Classroom Help Resources
    •  Topic 2- Developing A Career Exploration Strategy (Part I): Building Career Portfolios and Résumés Readings:
  • Resume Workbook. Le Moyne College Career Services Office (Coursepack Item 2).
  • "Writing the Resume: Professional Soul-Searching to Launch Your Career," Janet Mansini Billson (from The Student Sociologist (Spring 1995) (Coursepack Item 3)).
  • Qualities Employers Seek in Entry Level Employees Janet Mancini Billson (reprinted from the American Sociological Association's The Student Sociologist (Spring 1994)(Coursepack Item 4).
  • Basic Sections of a Resume, R. Kelly (handout).
  • Dr. Kelly's Reference Letter Information Form (handout)
    •  Resume Exercise: To prepare yourselves for this exercise carefully review the 'resume' readings listed above. Also, we will do a discussion of resume preparation in class. You should then draft your own resume working with the assumption that you are applying for your 'ideal' internship. If you already have a resume, you should revise it based on your reading and our class discussion. Next, your should visit the Career Services Office (RH, Third Floor) and request that a member of the staff 'critique' your resume. You can do this during Career Service's daily "Resume Critiquing Hour" (we will announce these hours during the first week of classes) . The staff in Career Services expect to see typed drafts that reflect our readings and class work on resumes. You should have the Career Services staff person who has reviewed your resume initial and date it in the upper right hand corner. You should then revise the resume based on this critique. You should turn in two copies of both the critiqued draft and the revision that you have done based on the critique on the date we announce in class.Be warned!! If you wait until the last few days before this assignment is due to visit Career Services to have your resume critiqued, you will encounter a long waiting line!! Hence, plan to complete this assignment early if you want to avoid long waits!!

    Note!!! Later in the course (see Topic 9 and Computer Assignment 5), you will place your resume on the home page you will build. Hence, we expect you to make corrections based on our comments on the returned resumes and maintain a working version of your resume on the BSCW program.
     

    Topic 3- Your Professional Portfolio 1

    NOTE: beginning this class you are required to bring your three folders and two disks.

    Servers, connections, and interchanges
    Finding your way on the internet
    Managing your BSCW workspace account
    Creating, Naming and Describing Folders
    Cutting, Dropping and Deleting objects in the Workspace

    Readings:
  • -BSCW Manual (Sections 1- 4)
  • VAX Manual (intro to internet)
    •  Computer Assignment #2 Due one week after this topic is covered.

    Topic 4 - The Sociology Major at Le Moyne: Program Structure, Requirements and Advising

    Readings:
  • Student Handbook, 1997- 98 (or previous editions with updates), Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Le Moyne College.
    • NOTE : Students should already have received a free copy of the Handbook from the Department either: (a) during First-Year Student Advisement, if you entered Le Moyne as a freshman or (b) during your first meeting with your advisor, if you entered Le Moyne as a transfer student. If you perchance lost your copy of the Handbook, you may purchase a bound copy from Dr. Kelly for $2.00 or you may access it through the hot link note under this topic's readings.
    Readings:
  • Majoring in Sociology: A Guide for Students, American Sociological Association (handout).
  • Bibliography of Departmental Resources for Faculty and Students, Department of Sociology, Le Moyne College (Coursepack Item 5).
    • Topic 5- Your Professional Portfolio 2
    Filling your folders
    Using a Search Engine
    Cutting and Pasting
    Adding a URL
    Verifying a Link
    Describing a Link Readings:
  • This Old Home Page
  • Le Moyne Computing Guide
  • Creating your own home page
    •  Computer Assignment #3 Due one week after this topic is covered.

    Topic 6- Career Explorations in Sociology (Part II):

    General Resources and Background

    Readings:
  • Sociology Series - gs-184, United States Office of Personnel Management, Office of Classification (December, 1988)(Coursepack Item 6).
  • Careers in Sociology, American Sociological Association (1991) (handout).
  • Job Announcement for Research Assistants, Child Trends, Inc., Washington, DC (handout)
  • JOBWEB: Information about JOBPLACE
  • A Partial Listing of Career-Related Skills and Competencies a Graduate of the Le Moyne College Department of Sociology Should Possess. Robert F. Kelly (handout)
  • The Sociology Major as Preparation for Careers in Business, Delbert C. Miller, Career Bulletin of the American Sociological Association (Coursepack page 28). Note: For those interested, there is an American Sociological Association booklet (43 pages) titled Sociologists in the Corporate World: Academic, Research and Practice Roles in Business and Industry. Let Dr. Kelly know if you would like a copy.

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    In-Class Career Dialogue Exercise We will do an in-class exercise in which you have a converstaion with another member of the class about your career plans, however developed or undeveloped they are at this point. This exercise will count toward your participation grade. You will post the results of this exercise to the Workspace and this part of the exercise will count toward the completion of Computer Assignment 4.

    Topic 7- Formatting a HTML Document

    Formatting a basic document
    Webber
    Uploading a document to the BSCW
    Checking your document
    Hints for formatting a resume

    Readings:
  • Search Engines (PC Computing Article)
  • Beaucoup Search Engines

    •       Computer Assignment #4 Due one week after this topic is covered.

    Topic 8- Applied Sociology

    Readings:
  • Thomas J. Sullivan, "Journals and Organizations in Applied Sociology" from Applied Sociology: Research and Critical Thinking (Macmillan, 1992) (Coursepack 9).
  • "Build on Knowledge from the Social Sciences to Fight the Spread of AIDS," Amitai Etizioni, William Gamson and Felice Levine. The Chronicle of Higher Education (November 30, 1994; A56)(Coursepack Item 10)
  • -"National Institutes of Health Official Emphasizes Social Factors," Norman B. Anderson, Footnotes (Coursepack Item 11).
  • Robert F. Kelly, Joanna Montilus, Mary Datwyler and Valorie Robinson, "Social Audit Teams: Accountants and Sociologist Working Together", Journal of Applied Sociology 1:13-29 (Coursepack 12).
  • Two Models: Disciplinary Sociology's Causal Analysis Model and Applied Sociology's Policy Analysis Model (handout).
  • Society for Applied Sociology This is the homepage of the Society for Applied Sociology
  • Model Implicit in Anderson's Article: "NIH Official Emphasizes Social Factors" (handout)
    •  Reflection Paper Film: "Dimensions of Applied Sociology" (Le Moyne College Library Film #242) Note: You should view this film in the library prior to our class discussion of applied sociology.

    Reflection Paper Assignment: This assignment calls for a three-page typewritten reflection on the film "Dimensions of Applied Sociology." You should view this film in the library as early as possible in the semester. The paper should possess the following elements: (a) a short description of at least three (3) major themes in the film with an illustration of each of these themes from a different applied sociologist portrayed in the film, (b) a brief summary of the Kelly et al, Journal of Applied Sociology article, "Social Audit Teams...." (c) a comparative discussion of two of the themes in the film and two of the themes in the Kelly et al article, and (d) a personal career reflection on your understanding of and interest in applied sociology, i.e. relate what you have learned about applied sociology to your 'career plans,'whatever they may be. This assignment is worth 10% of your final grade. The due date for this assignment is the Wednesday after we complete our discussion of applied sociology. Remember, you must submit two copies .

    Topic 9- Managing a Home Page 1

    WS_FTP
    .htm and .html
    Viewing your page locally
    Updating your work
    Adding a URL

    Readings:
  • Help Files for Web Publishing

    •       Computer Assignment #5 Due one week after this topic is covered.

    Topic 10- The Organization of the Discipline, Profession and Practice of Sociology in the United States

    Readings:
  • "Periodical Literature," pp 91-99 from Bart and Frankel, The Student Sociologist's Handbook (Coursepack Item 13).
  • Information on Student Memberships in the American Sociological Association (ASA), the ASA Student Honors Program and Student Sessions at the Annual ASA Meetings (handout).
    •  Topic 11- Creating Sub-Pages

    creating new html pages
    linking the pages
    understanding error messages
    Efficient navigation of pages

    Readings:
  • Help Files for Web Publishing

    •       Computer Assignment #6 Due one week after this topic is covered.

    Topic12- Beyond the Term Paper: Executive Summaries, Policy Memos and Writing for Professional Audiences

    Readings:
  • Marie Colombo, Executive Summary: Triage Health Care Delivery System Cost-Benefit Analysis, Prepared for the Commissioner of the Home Care Task Force, Michigan Commission on Aging (Coursepack Item 15).
  • Robert Kelly and Sarah H. Ramsey, "The Legal Protection of Children in Protection Proceedings: Some Empirical Findings and a Reflection on Public Policy", Family Relations (1985) 34:277-283 (Coursepack 16).
  • "Basic Sections of an Executive Summary of a Program Evaluation Report," Robert Kelly (Coursepack Item 14).
  • Additional Instructions for the SOC 200 Executive Summary Project
    •  Two types of writing common in the work of professional sociologists working in government, for-profit and not-for-profit settings are the Policy Memo and the Executive Summary:
    1. Policy Memos are summaries of the available research and analysis relevant to the decision a policy maker or policy-making body must make. They begin: "In response to your request for a summary of research concerning....."

    2. Executive Summaries are short summaries and discussions of research actually conducted by the writer for a client or administrative superior. They begin: "Research was conducted...." In class we will discuss the objectives and structure of each of these types of writing to prepare you for the assignment described below.

    Executive Summary Assignment : Of the two types of writing referred to above, the Executive Summary is more common and more basic. Hence, this assignment asks you to produce a 3-4 page typewritten executive summary of my article (with Sarah H. Ramsey) "The Legal Representation of Children in Protection Proceedings: Some Empirical Findings and a Reflection on Public Policy" Family Relations (1985). We will provide you with more detailed instructions concerning this assignment in class. Please note that for this assignment you are required to work in teams because most applied and policy writing is 'team writing.' This assignment is due on the Wednesday after we complete our class discussion of executive summaries. It is worth 10% of your final grade.
    Remember that you must turn in two hard copies of this assignment to Dr. Kelly and that you must also post it to the Workspace.

    Note: Employers and internship sponsors often ask prospective employees and interns to provide samples of their writing. An executive summary typically serves this function very well and, as such, will be an integral part of your career portfolio. AS such we expect you to include your executive summary on your professional home page.

    Topic 13- Graphical Models of Social Processes: A Basic Sociological Skill and an Excursus on Briefing

    Readings:
  • Robert F. Kelly 1997 Illustrations of Models In the Social Sciences (handout).
  • Communications Consulting Group, RAND Corporation. Guidelines for Preparing Briefings (1996) (handout).
  • Three books that I recommend as background for preparing graphical models and presentations are by the author Edward R. Tufte and published by Graphics Press. The titles are:
  • The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (Pictures of Numbers)
  • Envisioning Information (Pictures of Nouns)
  • Visual Explanations (Picture of Verbs)
    •  Topic 14- Professional Ethics for Sociologists in Teaching, Research and Applied Settings Readings:
  • Code of Ethics, American Sociological Association (1989) (Coursepack Item 17).
  • "Sociologist Jailed Because He 'Wouldn't Snitch' Ponders the Way Research Ought to Be Done," Peter Monaghan. The Chronicle of Higher Education (September 1, 1993; A8) (Coursepack Item 18).
  • Notes for SOC 200 Ethics Discussion (handout)
  • David Wheeler, "Three Medical Organizations Embroiled in Controversy Over Use of Placebos in AIDS Studies Abroad" The Chronicle of Higher Education (12-12-97, pp.A15-16).
  • AIDS Education Global Information System
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    Topic 15- Building Up your Home Page

    capturing images
    adding graphics to a page
    adding absolute links to your page
    adding a mail box to your page

    Readings:
  • Internet Page Editing

    •       Computer Assignment #7 Due one week after this topic is covered.

    Topic 16- Career Exploration in Sociology (Part III): Using the Resources of Le Moyne's Career Services Office

    Guest Lecturer and Visit with Mr. Mark Schappert, Associate Director, Le Moyne College Career Services Office (Date to be announced).

    Career Exploration Exercise: In preparation for this exercise we will be given a tour of the Career Services Offices at Le Moyne and an explanation of the services provided by this office. With this information to get you started, you will be expected to research a career in which you might wish to do an internship. Note: Before you begin this assignment you must have me approve the career you wish to explore. The results of your research will then be written up in a three-four page typewritten paper and posted to the Workspace before the final exam so that other members of the class may share in the results of your work. For this assignment you are to work in teams of no more than two people. This assignment is worth 15% of your final grade. It is due on the second Wednesday after Mr. Schappert's visit. Remember to submit two hard copies of this assignment to Dr. Kelly.

    Readings:
  • Career Services for 1997/98. Le Moyne College Career Services Office (Handout).
  • "What Can I Do with a Major in Sociology?" Le Moyne College Career Services Office (Coursepack Item 19).
  • "Job Titles of Sociology Degree Recipients at the BA Level." American Sociological Association (Coursepack Item 20).
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    Topic 17- Polishing your Home Page

    text formatting commands
    page layout tips
    color and backgrounds
    linking your documents

    Readings:
  • Internet Page Editing

    •       Computer Assignment #8 Due one week after this topic is covered.

    Topic 18- The Vision of Action Anthropology and Personal Commitment

    Readings:
  • -Raymond A. Bucko, S.J., "The St.Francis Community New Year's Dance," Native American Studies 2:25-28 (Coursepack Item 21).
  • -Sol Tax, "Action Anthropology," Current Anthropology 16(2): 514-517 (Coursepack Item 22).
  • National Conference of Bishops, A Time for Remembering, Reconciling, and Recommitting Ourselves as People (1992) (Coursepack Item 23).
    •    Topic19- Sociology on the Internet Readings:
  • The Culture of Cyberspace: The Internet for Sociologists Bob Kling . From the journal Contempory Sociology

    • Topic20- Scholarships, Fellowships and Graduate/Professional Education in Sociology and Allied Fields

    Readings:
  • Graduate Education, Le Moyne College Career Services Office (handout).
  • A good reference book for those considering graduate school is: Robert L. Peters Getting What You Came For: The Smart Student's Guide to Earning a Master's or Ph.D. (Noonday Press, 1992).
  • Table: Types of Financial Assistance Available in Graduate and Professional Schools (handout)

    • Please Note Students are expected to use search engines to find three potential graduate and other professional schools which pertain to their specializations and to post them in the Workspace with a brief statement about why the site is relevant to his/her future career.


     
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