Received: from ux6.cso.uiuc.edu (ux6.cso.uiuc.edu [128.174.5.9]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.7.6/8.7.3/CNS-4.0p) with SMTP id MAA22340 for ; Sat, 28 Jun 1997 12:14:56 -0600 (MDT) Received: (from rlgoldst@localhost) by ux6.cso.uiuc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id NAA01378; Sat, 28 Jun 1997 13:14:55 -0500 Date: Sat, 28 Jun 1997 13:14:54 -0500 (CDT) From: rachel laura goldstein To: socgrad@csf.colorado.edu cc: Sociology Graduate Students -- International Subject: Re: Intro Sociology Course In-Reply-To: <33B3FC7E.1FB6013@pe.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hi, Charles. I TA'd for the huge (630 students) intro course here for the past two years. We chucked the text book (_In Conflict and Order_) we used for the first year, in favor of a reader for this past academic year. Instead of students just memorizing theories and definitions from the text (which they seem to think they're supposed to do), we hope that they'll apply the stuff they learn in lecture to the readings. Anyway, the reader we chose was _Mapping the Social Landscape: Readings in Sociology_, Susan Ferguson (ed), Mountain View, California: Mayfield Publishing Co., 1996. I like it because they get to read lots of different sociologists, and the editor has little intros to each reading which make connections to relevant concepts, etc. The other main books were: Cleage, P. _Mad at Miles: A Blackwoman's Guide to Truth_. Southfield, Michigan: The Cleage Group, Inc. 1990. Rothenberg, P. (ed) _Race, Class, and Gender in the United States: An Integrated Study_. NY: St. Martin's Press, 1995. (new edition coming this fall) and Kozol, J. _Savage Inequalities: Children in American's Schools_. NY: Crown, 1991. We also had a course pack of readings and watched some films/videos in class to supplement the material. I can send a list of those sources to whomever is interested. To view the syllabus and see how the class is focused, please check out the homepage at http://www.soc.uiuc.edu/soc100/sochomepage.htm. Good luck with the course! Rachel rlgoldst@uiuc.edu ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Rachel L. Goldstein Department of Sociology University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 326 Lincoln Hall 702 S. Wright Street Urbana, IL 61801 217 - 333 - 1950 "cause i know the biggest crime is to just throw up your hands say this has nothing to do with me i just want to live as comfortably as i can you got to look outside your eyes you got to think outside your brain you got to walk outside your life to where the neighborhood changes..." -ani difranco, "willing to fight"