Fall 2016 Course Syllabi

Instructor:

Jason Garcia, M.S.

Office:

Online. You may post questions in my Virtual Office in our online classroom.

Office Hours:

Use the eMail tool within the online course to communicate with the instructor.

Course eMail messages will be checked daily, Monday through Friday. If you have a technical

problem, contact the Distance Education office by calling 1-701-228-5623 or 1-888-918-5623

(toll-free).

Email:

Use online course eMail tool.

Jason.garcia.2@dakotacollege.edu

Class Schedule:

Online

Textbook:

Macionis, John J.

Sociology;

Ed. New York: Prentice Hall. ISBN: 978-0-205-

73574-7

Order by e-mail:

bookstore@dakotacollege.edu

or Order online:

http://www.dakotacollege.edu/bookstoreorder.php

Technical Requirements:

Students using Moodle are recommended to use Mozilla Firefox as

the default browser for the class. Students may be able to use Internet Explorer or other

browsers, but the newest versions of Internet Explorer are not always compatible with every

feature of Moodle. Contact the instructor if you have difficulty finding a free download of

Firefox.

Course Requirements:

There are

weekly deadlines

for completing assignments.

Discussion Forums:

Each week, you will have one or more discussion forums. As such, are required to keep up with

the assigned weekly readings. For each forum, you will need to post

one answer to a question

two replies to other students’ answers, and two replies to students who have replied to you

Forums will close on Saturday nights at 11:45 p.m. Please do not wait until Saturday night to

post your answer, since other students will not have time to reply to you, or you to them. This

will result in a loss of points, which consequently will affect your grade. As a result, please,

make the discussion forums your first priority each week.

Homework Assignments:

During the term, you will have six short papers (

one-half to one page each

) due in the drop box.

The deadline for submitting this homework to the drop box is 11:45 p.m. Saturday nights.

Paper:

The research paper is due the last week of the term. The topic for your paper is due early in the

term. Both will be submitted to the drop box.