If you have any questions regarding this course requirement, please don't hesitate to ask me. Due to the need to begin developing formal research skills, NETC has a policy of requiring reports in each liberal arts class. Therefore, you will be required to write two article reports and turn them in on the day you take your last written test. These may be selected from any popular magazine article, with a realistic length of several pages, that deals with any of the topics mentioned in your SOC 101 textbook. Because of the extremely broad content of sociology, this should be an easy assignment to find an appropriate article for.
Many students desire the opportunity for extra credit.
The level of detailed underlining and margin notes should be equivalent to the required book by J. Kilbourne. I will also be placing the extra credit book on reserve in the NETC Library during the first month of the course. Should you choose the extra credit, your completed book should resemble my reserved example in terms of underlining. This extra credit book will introduce you to some of the arguments against computers in the K-12 classroom. The purpose of reading this book is to introduce you to other views than those typically encountered in the mass media.