Spring 2019 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; 13 th 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.