Teaching Opportunities

The Department of Sociology provides teaching opportunities which give graduate students increasing responsibility for classroom instruction. After passing the preliminary examination, students may apply to become course assistants with the opportunity to discuss course design, teach under supervisio n of a faculty member, and review student work. After completion of the A.M. portion of the program students who have served as course assistants may apply to become teaching interns with increased responsibility for course design and student evaluation in addition to leading class sessions. Students who have completed an internship are eligible for consideration as independent instructors of College-level courses.

Graduate Workshops

Students in sociology are invited to participate in the program of Graduate Workshops in the Humanities and Social Sciences, a series of interdepartmental discussion groups that bring faculty and advanced graduate students together to discuss their current work. At the workshops, Chicago faculty and students or invited guests present portions of books or other projects in which they are currently engaged. Workshops in which students and faculty in the department participate include those addressed to the following topics: Demography; East Asia/Society, Politics and Economy; Gender and Sexuality; Organizations and Markets; Organizations and State Building; Political Communication and Society; Reproductions of Race and Racial Ideologies; Semiotics: Culture in Context; Social Theory; Sociology and Cultures of Globalization; Urban Education Reform; Urban Policy, Urban Social Processes; Working Families.

POINT OF GRAMMAR

Reported speech

There are two ways of reporting what a person says:

Direct speech

He said, 'I'm going home.'

'I'm going home,' he said.

Indirect speech

He says he's going home.

He said he was going home.