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Contact Information: Required Texts:
Diamond, Jared. 1998. Guns, Germs, and Steel. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. Recommended Readings:
Important Notice: All Students are required to read, sign, and return the following student contract. Catalog Description:
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Contact Information:
Dr. Frank Elwell
Office Hours: Daily 8:00 to 11:00
email: felwell@rsu.edu
Office: 202-B Prep Hall
Phone: 918.343.7851
Required Texts:
Sanderson, Stephen K. and Arthur Alderson. 2005. World Societies: The
Evolution of Human Social Life. Boston: Pearson Education.
Diamond, Jared. 1998. Guns, Germs, and Steel. New York: W. W. Norton & Company.
Recommended Readings:
Important Notice:
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All Students are required to read, sign, and return the following student contract.
Catalog Description: tructure to adapt to the physical environment. Current ecological theories will be utilized to examine social evolution from hunting and gathering to industrial societies. Prerequisites: Nine hours of social science credit. This course is an elective in the Sociology Option of the Bachelor of Science in Social Science, as well as for a Sociology Minor. The course can also be used social science elective credit in any of the BSSS Options, the BALA Liberal Arts Electives Option taken in lieu of a minor, or for straight elective credit in any program.
Purpose:
This course centers on macro-level social theory. Using a comparative
historical analysis we will examine the relations of sociocultural systems
to their environment; the relations of the various parts of a society to one
another; and the stability and evolution of society through time. I hope
that students will be struck by the beauty of the sociocultural world.
Course Outline:
The class will be
in a presentation/discussion format. While the instructor will make
presentations during some class sessions, student discussion will be the
focus of most classes. At all times, student questions, comments, and
amplifications, are welcome. The course and reading assignments are in
three parts, with an examination at the end of each unit:
Unit 1: In the Beginning.
Guns, Germs, and Steel: Chapters 1 through 10
World Societies: Chapters 1 through 3
Unit 1 Instructor Presentations
Unit 2: Pre-industrial Societies.
Guns, Germs, and Steel: Chapters 11 through 14
World Societies: Chapters 4 through 6
Unit 2 Instructor Presentations
Unit 3: Industrial and Hyper-industrial Societies.
World Societies: Chapters 7 through 11,
Unit 3 Instructor Presentations
Invited Student Presentations
Study Guides:
On the links below I will provide you with possible essay questions for each
of the three Unit Exams. In making up the exams I will draw your essay
questions from these pools. I recommend that you use these questions as the
basis for group study. It would be worth your time and energy to fully
address these questions in writing well before the examination.
In answering an essay question for this class, integrate material from Lenski, Diamond, Sanderson, instructor presentations, other readings, class presentations, discussions, and other courses as much as possible. In answering essay questions your goal is to demonstrate that you have read, listened to, dealt with, understood and integrated the material into your own thinking; use quotes sparingly. For further information on essays please see the following: Writing in Response to an Essay Question.
Unit 1: Possible Essay Questions
Unit 2: Possible Essay Questions
Unit 3: Possible Essay Questions
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Course Objectives:
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Course Goals |
Program Goals Supported in B.S. in Social Science |
How Evaluated |
| Acquisition of the macro-sociological approach in relating the various parts of the sociocultural system to one another and to the whole. | To develop a level of competence in the core disciplines of the social sciences to allow for further inquiry and study. | Essay exams, class discussions, and book review. |
| An appreciation for, and ability to apply ecological-evolutionary theory in understanding and explaining sociocultural system stability and change. | To prepare students to function successfully in a society that is heading toward globalization and becoming more culturally diverse | Essay exams, class discussions, and book review. |
| An understanding of the historical/comparative method as the basis of sociological/anthropological science. | To equip students with the academic skills necessary to successfully address increasingly complex, multidisciplinary problems in the social sciences. | Essay exams, class discussions, and book review. |
| Writing
in Response to an Essay Question.
Unit 1: Possible Essay Questions Unit 2: Possible Essay Questions Unit 3: Possible Essay Questions
Americans with Disabilities Act:
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To equip students with the academic skills necessary to successfully address increasingly complex, multidisciplinary problems in the social sciences. | Essay exams, class discussions, and book review. |
Grading:
| Three Examinations | 300 |
| Book Review | 100 |
| Total Number of Possible Points | 400 |
Your final course grade will be based on the percentage of the 400 points you earn, 90% to 100% = A, and so on. All exams and written assignments are graded in accordance with the standards explained on the Grading Page.
Attendance Policy:
It is important that you attend both physically
and mentally. Studying the texts and
the lecture/ presentations are key. Inappropriate classroom behavior will cause
you to be dismissed from t whole.
Unit 1: Possible Essay Questions
Unit 2: Possible Essay Questions
Unit 3: Possible Essay Questions
Americans with Disabilities Act:
Rogers State University is committed to providing students
with disabilities equal access to educational programs and services.
Any student who has a disability that he or she believes will require
some form of academic accommodation must inform the professor of such
he class.
Make-up exams will be administered immediately after the scheduled final exam.
Academic Integrity:
Updated Continuously
By signing your name to a
test or paper you are indicating that the work is yours and yours alone. Any
academic cheating will result in failure of the course. "Plagiarism is the
representation of the words or ideas of another as one’s own, including:
direct quotation without both attribution and indication that the material
is being directly quoted, e.g. quotation marks; paraphrase without
attribution; paraphrase with or without attribution where the wording of the
original remains substantially intact and is represented as the author’s
own; expression in one’s own words, but without attribution, of ideas,
arguments, lines of reasoning, facts, processes, or other products of the
intellect where such material is learned from the work of another and is not
part of the general fund of common knowledge" (Office of Academic Affairs,
Rogers State University).
İFrank Elwell Send comments to felwell@rsu.edu