Greetings from the Sociology Department... It's Candy Friday! Both class and campus are buzzing today, for several reasons. Firstly, the weather. It is sunny and HOT in Colorado Springs, so much so that we had class outside on the quad! Our discussion today was regarding our developing research studies; the first draft is due this …
Week 2: Imagery, Metaphors, and Starting Project Poetry
Hi all, This week we've continued discussing more awesome poetry from some great authors. We started off the week on Monday with a Meter and Terminology Exam, just to make sure we remembered all the terms and scansion skills we practiced last week. We also talked about some poems by Native American author James Thomas …
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A Look at our Readings and Thesis Presentations
The following books have all been assigned over the course of the last week, and we’ve had some interesting follow-up discussions (and an essay to write!) regarding the ethics and efficacy of ethnography and participant observation as a research method. I highly encourage, if you’re interested, that you check these books out. They are written …
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What are we here to do?
First and foremost: Queer Theory is not just for Queer Bodies to participate in. As I define it, queerness can be as minute as an identity signifier outside of the normative, but it can be as expansive as deconstructing and reconceptualizing our "natural" worlds. Queerness, through subversion, transgression, and the necessity of survival, exposes the …
SO322: First week… All the world’s a stage!
New this year, CC’s Sociology department has changed the way we take our theory courses for requirements. In Block II, I took the general Social Theory Class with Professor Deb Smith and then elected to focus on Symbolic Interactionism for my specialized theory. Following this, I’ll take either Quantitative or Qualitative Methods and then write …
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Week 1 Recap: Now I Understand What the Pied Piper is About
Hi all! I've only just gotten my account set up so I didn't get a chance to post during 1st week. Here's a recap of some of the cool activities we did. One of the things I really enjoy about Jane as a professor is that she's incorporating aspects of writing poetry into the class - …
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Week 4
4/11-12/16 FIELD TRIP!!! The "cloudmaker" bomb, at a chemical weapons storage facility in Pueblo, Colorado Due to poor weather, our original plans for the trip changed and we ended up visiting numerous sites around the front range. Bent's Old Fort, in La Junta, Colorado. …
End of Week 4 and the Block
Happy block break everyone! I definitely meant to write this post either last night or this morning, but found that I needed to give myself a little bit of a break before writing this! Although our final paper for this class was fairly short (especially since my last block ended with me writing my thesis), …
End of Week 3
Now that we’ve reached the end of week 3, almost all of the reading is done (we have one last book to read this weekend), which seems kind of crazy to me! After spending several years on the block plan, you would think that I’d be used to how quickly blocks come to an end, …
Week 3
4/4/16 Today we started class with our second test, reviewing concepts from last week of land and rock disturbances. Once finished, we had a discussion on the weekend’s reading: This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate, by Naomi Klein. Students discussed the selfish psychology of big business and asserted that since business is only …
