This seminar is designed to assist participants in addressing sociological issues and draws on the foundation created by other course work in the discipline. The first part of the semester is devoted to the formulation of a significant sociological question culminating in a review of the literature and justification of the question under consideration.
Participants then proceed to gather data.
Approaches to data analysis are pursued and the course ends with the review of successive drafts of the term paper whose execution follows the American Sociological Association Guidelines for Publication.