This course considers how sociologists define our discipline, theory construction, and research design from both qualitative and quantitative perspectives. To encourage you to think sociologically about your own experiences as graduate students, we'll also spend the semester talking and reading articles about the graduate school experience . The miniproposal will be due November 14 th . Using my comments on the miniproposal, you will write a full proposal that suggests how you would go about researching your topic, due December 14 th . You will also briefly present this proposal to the class.
Assignments are due most weeks.
They are discussed in more depth at the end of this syllabus. For some weeks, the assignments simply require you to answer essay questions about the readings. Most of these assignments will be due 24 hours before the class session. Late assignments will lose points. If you turn in all eleven assignments, only the ten highest grades will be counted toward your final grade.