SOC 214: THE FAMILY
Fall 2009
Professor: Ann Marie Kinnell
Office: 432 Liberal Arts Bldg.
Phone/voice mail: 266-5339 (my office), 266-4306 (Dept.
Office)
E-mail: Ann.Kinnell@usm.edu
Department of Anthropology and Sociology home page: http://www.usm.edu/antsoc/
Office Hours: Tuesday and Thursday, 11:00a-noon, Wednesday, 1:00p-2:00p, and by
appointment
If you
feel like this,
it's best to stop by and have a chat! Don't let the semester get away
from you.
If you feel
like this,
stop by anyway and say hello!
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FOR YOUR INFORMATION: Here is a list of links to Web sites dealing with family issues.
If you do Face book, there is a group for this class: SOC214:The Family @ USM
COURSE DESCRIPTION
COURSE REQUIREMENTS
COURSE ETIQUETTE
REQUIRED READING
GRADING
DISABILITY INFORMATION
CLASS SCHEDULE
COURSE DESCRIPTION
The goal of this course is to give you the tools to look analytically at something we all know very well: the family. We all have intimate experience with our own families, but we do not always see how social, economic, political, and cultural forces shape both our own families and families which are very different from our own. During the course we will look at the family historically to see how the family has changed over time. We will examine the everyday experiences of individuals within families by looking at such things as love, marriage, and parent-child relationships. And, we will take a "macro" view of families to see how families interact with such institutions as the government and the economy. By the end of the course you should have an understanding of how families make decisions about their lives and how outside social forces affect those decisions.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS
1. Attendance and Participation in Class Discussion
I do not grade attendance and class participation as such, but I do expect it of you. I strongly suggest that you attend class since the purpose of the class is the discussion and integration of lectures, readings, and videos. You can not discuss and integrate if you are not here. I will NOT provide notes for students who miss class.
2. Exams
a. Three midterm exams: 100 points each. Exams are multiple choice and will cover all material from the lectures and the textbook. Material covered in the text book but not in lecture is still fair game for the exam. You will be able to drop your lowest grade of these three exams.
b. Final exam: 200 points. The exam is multiple choice and will cover the material (lectures and textbook chapters) since Exam 3 and all of the material covered since the beginning of the course. Note: you may not drop the final exam.
c. Make-up policy: If you need to miss one of the three midterm exams, you must talk to me before the day of the exam to schedule a make-up. If you miss an exam and do not contact me prior to the exam, the exam you missed will count as your dropped grade. If you miss a second exam you will receive a grade of F for that exam.
3. Family
and Society Paper Due Friday, December 4, 2009 by 4:00p in LAB 432.
Although it is not required, you may
submit a rough draft of your paper for comments. Rough drafts must be
submitted no later than Thursday, November 19.
4. Extra Credit
REQUIRED READING
Cox, Frank D. (and Kinnell). 2008. Human Intimacy: Marriage, the
Family, and It’s Meaning. Thomson Custom
Publishing.
GRADING
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Point Distribution: |
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Grade Scale |
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Midterm exams (best 2 of 3) |
200 |
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450-500 |
A |
Excellent work |
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Final exam |
200 |
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400-449 |
B |
Good work |
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Family Paper |
100 |
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350-399 |
C |
Average work |
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Total points possible: |
500 |
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300-349 |
D |
Inferior work |
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< 299 |
F |
Failing work |
Academic Dishonesty
Academic dishonesty is not tolerated, e.g. cheating on an exam or copying
someone else's work on the paper. Penalties may range from a grade of F
on an exam or the paper to a grade of F for the course. Please see the student handbook
for the university's policy on academic honesty.
Final Grades
All grades are final when I turn them into the
registrar. I do not allow students to do extra work to bring up their
grades after the semester is over. DO NOT ASK!
AMERICAN WITH DISABILITIES ACT (
If a student has a disability that qualifies under the American with
Disabilities Act (ADA) and requires accommodations, he/she should contact the Office of Disability Accommodations (ODA)
for information on appropriate policies and procedures. Disabilities
covered by
Address: The
Voice Telephone: (601)
266-5024 or (228) 214-3232 , Fax: (601)
266-6035,
Individuals with hearing impairments can contact ODA using the Mississippi
Relay Service at 1-800-582-2233 (TTY) or email Suzy Hebert at Suzanne.Hebert@usm.edu.
COURSE ETIQUETTE
While in class, I expect you to be considerate of your instructor and fellow students. Please do not chat with your neighbors, read newspapers (online or hard copy) or other materials, do work for other classes, watch movies, cruise the web (unless you are finding information pertinent to the current topic which you would like to share with the class), check your social networking sites, text your friends (or enemies), play games, or (the very low tech) pass notes to friends or write on each other’s notebooks. If you do, I will ask you to leave. Please turn off or mute your cell phone before class begins. Also, do not pack up before I dismiss the class. I usually give you a few minutes to get your things together at the end of class. Packing up early is disruptive to those students who are trying to pay attention.
Last
Modified: November 19, 2009
URL: http://www.usm.edu/antsoc/socio/syllabus/SOC214syllabusfall09.html
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