SOCIOL 171
Occupations and Professions
Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Description and analysis of representative occupations and professions, with emphasis on contemporary U.S. P/NP or letter grading.
Units: 4.0
Units: 4.0
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Winter 2025 - This is my second time taking Professor Sigmon and I enjoyed it! The class itself is broken down into discussion participation (for discussions + weekly writing assignments), midterm, paper, and a final. Lectures are non-mandatory where Prof Sigmon goes over the slides, which he makes available at the end of each week on BruinLearn. I think you can do just fine with the slides yourself, but going to class really helps with retaining that information and he does expand on concepts, so if you're confused, that's helpful. He bases his lectures on weekly readings, which are also what your writing assignments will be based on and what you'll discuss in discussion sections, where attendance is mandatory. The readings can be big, but they're interesting, and that's kind of to be expected in any Soc class! For this class, the topics were always engaging and reflected past and current trends in the sociology of work. The paper requires you to interview someone about their job to determine if it is "good" or "bad" based on provided criteria. It's fairly straightforward and not too hard. The midterm and final both had mostly multiple choice and T/F with one or two written answer questions. Some of the questions were phrased a little weird to me, but if you're taking notes in lecture / on the slides and reading the materials, it's not hard to do well. It's a really interesting class and Professor Sigmon does a good job of making sense of readings that are particularly dense or hard to navigate.
Winter 2025 - This is my second time taking Professor Sigmon and I enjoyed it! The class itself is broken down into discussion participation (for discussions + weekly writing assignments), midterm, paper, and a final. Lectures are non-mandatory where Prof Sigmon goes over the slides, which he makes available at the end of each week on BruinLearn. I think you can do just fine with the slides yourself, but going to class really helps with retaining that information and he does expand on concepts, so if you're confused, that's helpful. He bases his lectures on weekly readings, which are also what your writing assignments will be based on and what you'll discuss in discussion sections, where attendance is mandatory. The readings can be big, but they're interesting, and that's kind of to be expected in any Soc class! For this class, the topics were always engaging and reflected past and current trends in the sociology of work. The paper requires you to interview someone about their job to determine if it is "good" or "bad" based on provided criteria. It's fairly straightforward and not too hard. The midterm and final both had mostly multiple choice and T/F with one or two written answer questions. Some of the questions were phrased a little weird to me, but if you're taking notes in lecture / on the slides and reading the materials, it's not hard to do well. It's a really interesting class and Professor Sigmon does a good job of making sense of readings that are particularly dense or hard to navigate.
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Course: Honors Collegium The last evaluation has impelled me to make an evaluation of Prof TenHouten. It is true that some students will not like TenHouten. But I don't understand where all the hate is coming from. Sure he talks about his theories and finds his studies important. What professor doesn't? By the way, I remember the exact person that wrote the comment below... Let's just say if you like arguing with the professor every 5 minutes and nitpicking every single mistake/misunderstanding and love rolling your eyes then you will probably have the same experience. It is ok to be smart. And it is possible that you are smarter than a professor at UCLA. But it isn't ok to be arrogant about it. Making comments in class and pretending you are some sort of genius is annoying. The class is easy. Take it. You might like the subject or you might not. Just try to be open minded. Either way, it's an easy A. The only assignment is a research paper and he gives you a lot of time. There is a midterm/final exam. Just take decent notes and review before class. But like all Honors courses, an A is easy to get with minimal effort.
Course: Honors Collegium The last evaluation has impelled me to make an evaluation of Prof TenHouten. It is true that some students will not like TenHouten. But I don't understand where all the hate is coming from. Sure he talks about his theories and finds his studies important. What professor doesn't? By the way, I remember the exact person that wrote the comment below... Let's just say if you like arguing with the professor every 5 minutes and nitpicking every single mistake/misunderstanding and love rolling your eyes then you will probably have the same experience. It is ok to be smart. And it is possible that you are smarter than a professor at UCLA. But it isn't ok to be arrogant about it. Making comments in class and pretending you are some sort of genius is annoying. The class is easy. Take it. You might like the subject or you might not. Just try to be open minded. Either way, it's an easy A. The only assignment is a research paper and he gives you a lot of time. There is a midterm/final exam. Just take decent notes and review before class. But like all Honors courses, an A is easy to get with minimal effort.
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