Dr. Ada Haynes
Associate Professor of Sociology
Office: Daniel Hall, Room 201
Phone: 372-3815

SOC 1010. Introduction to Sociology (Honors)

This is a survey course in sociology. Thus, each topic will only be briefly covered. For a more thorough understanding of any topic covered in this course, students may later want to take a more advanced sociology course.

Objectives

1. To provide an overview of the field of sociology.

2. To introduce students to the basic methodological and theoretical perspectives of sociology.

3. To develop one’s ability to understand and to integrate various sociological perspectives those perspectives into real life situations.

4. To develop an understanding of one’s self and one’s world.

5. To further one’s ability to think critically about the society in which we live.

Requirements

Class attendance and participation is mandatory. Tardiness is considered an absence. Material for the exams will come from both lecture and text. Make-up exams will only be given at the discretion of the instructor. The instructor reserves the right to administer a different type of test when a make-up test is given. It is necessary that each student participate to the fullest extent in all classroom activities, assignments and tests. A two page typed paper is due for each absence on the topic covered in class that day.

1. Text: Henslin, J. M. (1999). Sociology: A down to earth approach. Boston: Allyn & Bacon.
2. Reader: Henslin, J. M. (1999). A down to earth approach: Introductory readings. New York: Free Press.
3. Other assigned readings and/or video which will be placed on reserve in the library.

Extra Credit

Extra credit will be given for participation in out of class experiments. One extra credit point will be given for each experiment. However, if you sign up for an experiment and you can not make it at that time, you must call the experiment. Otherwise, one point will be deducted from your grade.

You may earn up to five extra credit points. These points will be added or deducted from your final average.

Evaluation Procedure:

A grade for the course will be given upon satisfactory completion of course requirements (see below). The semester grade for this class will be based approximately on the following:

Research Project 25%

Culture Project 25%

Debate 20%

Facilitation of Class 20%

Class Attendance & Participation 10%

Grading Scale

A = 90 -100

B = 80 - 89

C = 70 - 79

D = 60 - 69

F = BELOW 60

Material to Be Covered

Chapters in Text: 1,2,3,4,5,8,9,10,11,12,14,16,22

Chapters in Reader: 3,5,7,9,11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 24,26,28,30,31,33, 37, 39, 44, 47