No final exam is scheduled, but I will be available in my office during the assigned period. Exams will consist of multiple choice and short answer questions drawn from readings and lecture. Students will propose, draft, and revise a research project on a topic chosen in consultation with the instructor. Papers will be written in the style of sociological journal publications. That is, a research question introduced, related research by others reviewed, hypotheses stated, data and methods described, analytical evidence provided, and findings discussed in terms of original hypotheses.
Papers are to be based on original research.
Copying or plagiarism will not be tolerated. I do not anticipate problems with this because we will be discussing these issues as a substantive part of the course. I hope to help you learn how to properly draw from existing literature to generate and test an idea about the social world and properly credit the original work. Furthermore, a major goal of the paper is to describe original research based on in-class data analyses. You will write two drafts of the paper.