Hello Students!! I am so excited to be teaching you through this online experience this semester! Welcome to Radford University for those of you who are new to the school and welcome back to those of you returning. I'll be utilizing this site for discussion and posting requirements and a plick site for uploading slides prepared to give you extra information. Your text is a wonderful book written by Dalton Conley and you can even read it as an e-book should you desire. I also recommend consulting a Henslin text as a supplement if you should want more explanations (any year will do).
As a way to give you extra time this week, you won't have a posting requirement, but you will have to send me your first written response to questions posted in the book by Monday. Hopefully, this will give you time to get your book and work done. If not, just let me know. A copy of the syllabus and expectations for the first two weeks should be in your email tonight. If something is not opening up for you or is confusing, please email me.
A little bit about me is often in order on the first day, so here goes. I'm a doctoral candidate in Sociology at VT with specialty areas of Gender and Environmental Sociology. I am in the dissertation phase of my work and am hoping to defend my proposal in the Spring. My undergraduate degree is a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Rutgers University/ Douglass College. My Master of Arts degree is in Sociology and Criminal Justice from Appalachian State University. I've been teaching in the university setting since 2003. And, right now, I work full- time in Pulaski Cty with the school systems helping children in the classroom- first grade. :) So, I know what many of you are going through in working full- time or even part- time while in school- lots of balancing going on.
Looking forward to working with you all!! Tell us a bit about yourself in the comments, please...
