{"id":35,"date":"2014-08-26T14:58:13","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T14:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coolsociology.net\/SOAN390\/?page_id=35"},"modified":"2016-11-10T16:11:03","modified_gmt":"2016-11-10T16:11:03","slug":"assignments","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/soan390.mcguire-spickard.com\/?page_id=35","title":{"rendered":"Assignments"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Course Assignments:<\/h4>\n<table style=\"width: 603px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 34px; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">1.<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 346px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coolsociology.net\/SOAN390\/?page_id=134\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Attendance<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 190px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">REQUIRED<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 34px; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">2.<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 346px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coolsociology.net\/SOAN390\/?page_id=35#Attendance\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Active Daily Class Participation &amp; L<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">eadership<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 190px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">10% of grade<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 34px; text-align: center;\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 346px; text-align: right;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">(includes classroom activities<br \/>\nplus posting notes to the course Wiki)<\/span><\/em><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 190px;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 34px; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">3.<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 346px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coolsociology.net\/SOAN390\/?page_id=148\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Outlines &amp; Reading Summaries (8)<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 190px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">20% of grade<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 34px; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">4.<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 346px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coolsociology.net\/SOAN390\/?page_id=144\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Group Presentation<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 190px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">10% of grade<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 34px; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">5.<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 346px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coolsociology.net\/SOAN390\/?page_id=141\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Two Papers:<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 190px;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 34px; text-align: center;\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 346px;\">\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Doing all the steps of the writing process<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">First paper<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Second paper<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 190px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">5% of grade<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">20% of grade<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">15% of grade<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 34px; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">6.<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 346px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coolsociology.net\/SOAN390\/?page_id=137\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Final Exam<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 190px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">20% of grade<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<ul>\n<li>Items 3, 4, and 5 will be<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>turned this in at the course <a href=\"http:\/\/learn.redlands.edu\" target=\"_blank\">Moodle site<\/a>, in the Homework Dropbox folder. \u00a0The Wiki (item 2) is also at the <a href=\"http:\/\/learn.redlands.edu\" target=\"_blank\">Moodle site<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<h5>Instructor&#8217;s Comment<\/h5>\n<p>Each of these assignments is designed to help you achieve the goals of the course, described above.\u00a0 For the most part, they are cumulative.\u00a0 The discussions, for example, help you complete the weekly summaries, which in turn help you learn to outline theoretical arguments.\u00a0 This helps you write the papers and the final exam.\u00a0 In-class writing facilitates discussions, which also give you practice analyzing social theory.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In many ways, the course is like a train.\u00a0 If you get on it, and stay on it, you will reach the destination.\u00a0 If you get off midway, however, it takes an awful lot of running to catch up.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Intellectually, the course is no harder than other upper-division SOAN courses.\u00a0 It does, however, require that you work ahead of deadlines.\u00a0 In forty years of teaching, I have yet to meet a student who can do theory at the last minute.<\/p>\n<p>To use another metaphor: this course is like conditioning gym: the early part of the semester gets you in shape for the main event.\u00a0 If you do the work steadily and well, you will have no trouble with the end-of-semester rush.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Course Assignments: 1. 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