Chris Chase-Dunn, Department of Sociology, Olmsted 1218 <chriscd@ucr.edu>
Office Hours: Thursdays 10-12 Fall 2018
Grading Basis:
I. Description of internship participation (one page): This is not graded, but this is required for a passing grade in this course.
II. Two Consultations with faculty (orientation & mid-quarter meeting/check-in): These are not graded, but they are required for a passing grade in this course.
III. Three written assignments:
· Weekly journal (includes discussion of course readings & career research described below): 40%
· Summary report (includes discussion of course readings & career research described below): 40%
· Resume and/or personal statement for graduate/professional school: 20%
You will be graded
on following the instructions below on the journal and report, the evaluation
of your supervisor, the completeness and clarity of your journal entries and
the quality of your research report, as well as your participation in the
required orientation and mid-quarter meetings.
Description of
Assignments:
Note: No late assignments will be
accepted unless there are extenuating circumstances. Only medical or personal emergencies,
verified with a doctor’s note or other documentation, will be considered
grounds for granting an extension on assignment deadlines.
INTERNSHIP PARTICIPATION
You
should be ready to begin your internship in the first week of the quarter and
no later than week 2. You are responsible for contacting the supervisor of the
organization you wish to intern at to gain permission. Ideally, you will do
this at least the week before the quarter begins. Your specific work
assignments and schedule should be worked out between you and your site
supervisor (the person who supervises your work for your organization or group).
For a 4-unit internship, you are required to do 10 hours of work per week (100
hours total per quarter) for the organization through a schedule that is worked
out between you and your site supervisor. For a 2-unit internship, you are
required to do at least 5 hours of work for the organization per week (50 hours
total per quarter). If you start your internship late, you will be expected to
do more hours per week to complete all the required work hours. You must also
keep me informed about your internship site supervisor and their current
contact information (e-mail address, street address and phone number). Write a 1-page description of your internship participation
that includes the information above and turn it in to me during the first or
second week of the quarter. Bring or email a signed Waiver of Liability
Agreement. A blank copy is available on the Course Ilearn
site,
CONSULTATIONS WITH Professor Chase-Dunn
You are required to do a one-time orientation meeting with Professor Chase-Dunn to discuss the enrollment procedures and course assignments and to make sure that you have a good match for your internship. This must occur within the first two weeks of the academic quarter during my office hours or at an arranged time.
You are also required to do a one-time mid-term meeting (must be Weeks 5 or 6 during office hours).
If you cannot make
that meeting, please contact me to arrange an alternative date.
*If you are in the UCDC program: I will do an orientation and mid-term check-in via e-mail or skype with you. My skype name is cchasedu
You must also keep me informed about your internship site supervisor and their current contact information (e-mail address, street address, and phone number) and if there are any changes regarding your site supervisor during the quarter. If you experience problems with your internship assignment and need to change organizations or supervisors, please contact me as soon as you can early in the quarter (Major changes cannot be made after week 4).
All Soc 198-I students (new & returning) are required to complete the reading & research assignments for Weeks 4-10 described below, a discussion of which should be incorporated into your weekly journal and summary report.
If you are taking this course for the first time: You are required to read the following readings listed below for Weeks 1-3 and to relate these readings to your internship experience in your journal entries and summary report.
If
you are taking this course for the second or third time: You should
relate your experiences to at least one NEW book or a series of 4 scholarly
articles or book chapters that are written using a sociological perspective
(NOTE: THESE CANNOT BE THE SAME SOURCES USED IN A PREVIOUS QUARTER FOR
SOCIOLOGY 198-I). You must submit your
proposed readings for approval by Professor Chase-
Dunn via e-mail as soon as possible for Weeks 1-3 but
no later than Friday of Week 2.
The readings below are available through ilearn.ucr.edu course website in the “course materials” folder.
Week 1: Schneider Corey, Marianne and Gerald Corey. 2011 [2007]. “Chapter 10,” in Becoming a Helper, Sixth Edition. Belmont, CA: Brooks/Cole, Cengage Learning.
Kathleen Sawa’s “Professionalism in the Workplace” presentation (powerpoint)
Week 2: Mills, Steven D. 2012. “The Four Furies: Primary Tensions Between Service-Learners and Host Agencies.” Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning. 19(1): 33-43.
Week 3: Schneider Corey, Marianne and Gerald Corey. 2011 [2007]. “Chapter
2” and/or “Chapter 7” in Becoming a
Helper, Sixth Edition. Belmont, CA: Brooks/Cole, Cengage Learning. You are required to read at least one chapter, but encouraged to read both of them.
Week 4: Identify 2
optional readings & type out the references using ASA format: http://www.asanet.org/students/Quick%20Style%20guide.pdf
Your 2 optional readings can include additional chapters from Becoming a Helper, Sixth Edition and/or other scholarly book chapters or journal articles that you identify as relevant to your particular internship experience and/or career interests.
To find relevant journal articles, you should consider those listed on the “Soc 198-I Optional Reading Guide” (this guide and many of the readings listed on it are available on the “course materials” folder on the ilearn.ucr.edu website for this course). This guide also contains suggestions for how to find additional readings through various websites and databases available on the library.ucr.edu website.
You must submit your proposed readings for approval by Professor Chase-Dunn during your mandatory midterm check-in meeting or via email, if approved
Weeks 4-6: You are required to do the midterm check-in meeting and bring all of your journals to date (hard copy) for feedback. In weeks 5 and 6, you are required to read at least 2 optional readings (book chapters or academic journal articles) that are relevant to your career interests and/or careers related to your internship & to discuss them in your journal these weeks.
Weeks 7-8: Do at least TWO of the following by the end of Week 8: (1) Visit the UCR Career Center and consult with staff about your possible careers and find out more about the career resources and support they offer; (2) Read and/or use materials from the Career Center website to find out more about your potential careers and/or how to prepare for your post-graduation job search and/or your application for graduate/professional schools; (3) Attend a workshop organized by the Career Center and/or other UCR faculty or staff that is related to your professional development. In your journal for this week, discuss what you learned about your potential career options, how to prepare for your future career, and/or how to apply to graduate or professional school; (4) Identify potential graduate programs or professional schools related to your career interests. Be sure to discuss what you learned in your internship journals for these weeks.
Week 9: Do at ONE of the following: (1) Develop your resume with help from Career Center staff and/or Career Center website resources on resume development (http://careers.ucr.edu/essentialjobsearch/resumes.html); (2) Prepare and/or revise a draft of your personal statement for a graduate/professional school application with help from staff from the UCR Academic Resource Center, the UCR Health Professions Advising Program, and/or a UCR faculty member or graduate student (someone else besides me). You are required to turn in your resume or personal statement at the end of the quarter.
Week 10 & Finals Week: Complete your final report along with your final journal entry.
Sociology 198I requires you to keep a weekly journal (and to spend at least 2 hours per week working on it each week). You must keep this electronically, on your computer so that you can send them to me via e-mail. For each journal entry you must put date-line information on one line and always include the time, day, and place. This will create a nice conceptual framework for the material you will write in your journal on any given day.
The purpose of your journal is to bring together your feelings, emotions, insights, and comments into your observations, and to reflect on your observations using a sociological perspective. You should relate, as much as possible, what you observed to theories and/or research that you have encountered in your other sociology courses and to each of the 5 course readings (3 required and 2 optional readings) described above.
Your
journal should record therefore, whatever you feel, think, act, read and
observe. It should contain any ideas that come to mind, whether good, bad,
creative or "half-baked" along with any questions, comments or
reflections you might have. The task ahead of you is similar
to keeping a record on a laboratory experiment where you record your
thoughts, opinions, disappointments, errors and blunders along with your
empirical data. For example, you might want to record your feelings and
opinions on the conduct of a high status executive or
on a community meeting or personal comments made by others within your social
network or on some event you have witnessed. Or, you might want to write about
a reading from another sociology course or newspaper or magazine article
related to the social network in which your internship is grounded.
You should write frequently in your journal. For each unit of course credit, I expect you to read and write for at least 2 hours per week. I also expect you to write at least ¾ of a page per week (which can either be a series of short entries or one longer one). Thus, for a 4-unit internship, I expect you to write at least 3 single-spaced pages per week. For a 2-unit internship, I expect you to write at least 1.5 single-spaced pages per week.
What matters is making lots of entries of your experiences. Carry your journal about with you so you can record your ideas or feelings when they occur or when you observe something of significance. By recording events as they happen, your journal will come alive and be more informative, interesting and creative, instead of flat, dry and mechanical. You can include personal entries as well as part of your ongoing experience. Let me emphasize that you will receive a very low grade if you write only occasionally in your journal or if you throw it together like "hocus pocus" at the last minute. For it is very easy to distinguish between a deep-seated true-blue journal and a phony, last minute manufactured one. Trust me, I will grade you accordingly as your journal will heavily influence your grade, so it is a very important part of your internship.
Provide a complete bibliography & cite readings (author date format) using American Sociological Association style guidelines: see http://www.asanet.org/documents/teaching/pdfs/Quick_Tips_for_ASA_Style.pdf
(or see other guidelines on ASA format or style that are available on the World Wide Web).
You are NOT expected to turn in your journal entries each
week. Instead, I will evaluate your work twice during the quarter. The first
evaluation will take place during your mid-quarter meeting (in Week 5 or 6 during my office hours or
via email, if arranged) and when you send me your final journal and
assignments to me via e-mail (chriscd@ucr.edu)
by December 4th at 5:00pm. Be sure to use ‘Soc 198-I Final Assignments’
in the subject line. See below for submission instructions.
2. RESUME AND/OR PERSONAL STATEMENT
Prepare and/or further develop your resume OR a personal statement for a graduate/professional school application, following the directions for Week 9 above.
Your summary report is drawn from the entries in your
journal. It is essentially a synopsis of what you have observed and
accomplished along with your own frank comments on your total internship
experience and how it relates to the readings you have completed for this
course and any prior sociology coursework that is relevant to your internship
experience. It should be 7-10 double-spaced pages (no longer than 10 pages
though).
Your report should be drawn primarily from entries made in your journal (but you are free to add materials from any source)
Your report should contain the following information:
1. A physical description of where your internship took place and a description of the organization itself. Here, you should describe the organization’s main goals or mission, organizational structure (i.e., number of staff, members, leaders, etc.), and anything you can find out about its origins or history.
2. A general summary of the length of your internship and your weekly time schedule.
3. A description of the actual work you performed during your internship and the role(s) you played within the organization. Here, you should reflect on what (if anything) you gained from your internship in terms of work experience, skill development, and/or professional/career development. Be sure to refer to at least 2 readings from Weeks 1-4 here.
4. What did you learn or gain from the assignments for Weeks 7-9 regarding your career options and/or how to prepare for your future career and/or applying for graduate or professional school?
5. Your reflections on what you learned from participating in and observing this organization or group from a sociological perspective. Here, you should analyze from a sociological perspective events that occurred during your internship that relate to (or exemplify) general social patterns you observed and/or an exceptional or remarkable situation. You should relate, as much as possible, what you observed to theories and/or research that you have encountered and at least 3 course readings and other relevant sociology courses. For example, what did you learn about social or organizational processes or social inequalities? Be sure to also describe and analyze the social network or the status and social relations among the individuals you interacted with during your internship. If you don’t want to use their real names, make up names to disguise their identity. If relevant to your organization: What did you learn about social problems, their social causes, and how organizations seek to address them and with what outcomes?
6. Reflections on your personal experience as an intern, student, and/or as an engaged world citizen in this course whether it was a negative or positive experience overall. You can include both negative and positive impressions of your boss and co-workers here. If you don’t want to use their real names, make up names to disguise their identity. If relevant, you should include what this internship taught you about social change and/or social (in)justice.
7. In addition you should include any other comments you feel are relevant.
8. Provide a complete bibliography & cite readings (author date format) using American Sociological Association style guidelines: see http://www.asanet.org/documents/teaching/pdfs/Quick_Tips_for_ASA_Style.pdf
(or see other guidelines on ASA format or style that are available on the World Wide Web).
Keep in mind that your report will be kept confidential. Hence, you can freely express your opinion on any issue that concerns you.
SUBMITTING YOUR ASSIGNMENTS
You are required to complete the following 3 written assignments and submit them to me by email (chriscd@ucr.edu), NO LATER THAN December 4th at 5:00pm. I will not accept any late assignments. Include ‘Soc 198-I Final Assignments’ in the subject line. All assignments should include page numbers. To summarize, these include:
(1) All of your journals (cut & pasted together into 1 Microsoft Word document);
(2) Your resume or your personal statement for professional/graduate school applications (see instructions for Week 9 above);
(3) Summary report (1 Microsoft Word document)
For your journal & summary report: Remember to provide a complete bibliography & cite readings (author date format) using American Sociological Association style guidelines: see http://www.asanet.org/documents/teaching/pdfs/Quick_Tips_for_ASA_Style.pdf
(or
see other guidelines on ASA format or style that are available on the World
Wide Web).