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Syllabus and Study Guide for:

With Drs. Gary Brock and Mike Carlie
Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminology
Missouri State University
Springfield, Missouri 65804

Please Read this First!

You must have a university-server-based email account open
for this course and keep your mailbox from being full.

Your professors will be sending you emails, but
your email address must be .........@Missouri State (no hotmail, yahoo, etc.).


If you don't already have an email account with the university, you can open one at any Missouri State open computer lab. We will be sending you information via your email and, for grading purposes, we will assume you have received it all. Please check your account DAILY and please don't let it get full. If your mailbox fills, you won't be able to receive additional emails. Your professors are not responsible if you have not received an email sent to the entire class because your emailbox was full.

This Syllabus and Study Guide was written to be read and studied. The dates of all of our class meetings, course policies (i.e., attendance, make-ups, non-discrimination, academic integrity, disability accommodation), the topics and outlines of our lectures, and the dates of all the quizzes are found in the syllabus. You'll also find links to sample tests for every chapter and to the website for the book as created by its authors. You are expected to familiarize yourself with this entire Syllabus and Study Guide before the end of the third meeting of the class.

Your professors may not announce test dates or any other event date if that test or event is found in the Syllabus and Study Guide. Lack of an announcement in class is no excuse for not knowing there was a test since the test dates are clearly identified in the Syllabus and Study Guide. The Syllabus and Study Guide also provides all of the course policies (i.e., attendance, grading, making-up tests, and more).

To access this online Course Syllabus and Study Guide you may use your own computer or any one of the hundreds of Internet-ready computers on campus or on computers anywhere in the world. The open labs at MSU may be found in Cheek Hall 150, Glass Hall 233, and in room 107 of Strong Hall.

  • If you're using your own computer, put the following page in your favorites:
    http://courses.missouristate.edu/mkc096f/advisenet/soc152/home.htm

    That webpage is the home page for the course and gives you access to all of the course policies and to the outline for the course (which provides a link to our day-to-day activities in the classroom, test dates, etc.). Be sure to check the syllabus a couple of days before each class meeting so that you are prepared for whatever it is that is scheduled for class.
     
  • You are required to read the "Course Outline" and "Course Policies and Statements." If you have any questions about them, please raise your questions in class or email the instructor(s) for an answer.
     
  • Please check your email each day for messages from your course professor(s). Upcoming events you can attend for extra credit, campus career fairs, changing test dates, Visiting Expert or Community Partner information, and notification of other events will be sent to you throughout the semester. You must have a campus email address to receive these announcements.

Please be sure to explore all of the following course sites:

1. Explore the Home Page for the course.

2. Familiarize yourself with the Course Outline and check it regularly so you are prepared for class. At the top of the chart you will find links to all the quiz dates and the dates when we will have Visiting Experts and Community Partners in the classroom. Please familiarize yourself with these dates and put them on your personal calendar.

3. Familiarize yourself with the Course Policies. Please read each of the policies - this will only take a few minutes and you will leave understanding much more about what is being expected of you in this course.

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