This journal should be the place where you record your think-ing about how to bring the pieces of the sociological perspective together into a more integrated whole through this course. Therefore, any work you do for the course should encourage you to think and to make entries in the journal. Although the length of each journal entry may vary consider-ably, you should be making three entries each week on average. The focus of this journal is recording your progress in assimilating the sociological perspective, That is where the emphasis will be placed. Here you are not held to the same standards of grammar and logic that are applied to your typed written assign-ments.
Journals are rather personal.
You should have the right to not share various seg-ments of the journal as you work through the integration process. Therefore, use a paper folder with pockets for your journal so that you are free to re-move entries that you don't wish to share. You will submit journal entries to me periodically and I will give you constructive feedback. The type of questions you should be addressing in the journal will be discussed col-laboratively in small groups and as an entire seminar.