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Web-Enhanced Curriculum Homepage
Study and Research Tools for Students
The
department's web-enhanced curriculum is designed
to use the capabilities of the internet to promote effective
learning and the acquisition of useful skills. It is
premised on the idea that web-enhancement can be racheted
up from the course to the curricular level, providing resources
supporting courses across the departmental curriculum. While
our web-enhanced curricululm is a still-evolving project,
it has been highlighted in the American Sociological Association's Footnotes
newsletter and in the online journal, Innovate:
Journal of Online Education (see details below).
Our web-enhanced curriculum was a major factor in the department's
receipt of the Rutgers University Programmatic
Excellence Award in 2003. The resources of the web-enhanced
curriculum are designed to:
 Define clearly departmental expectations that apply to all courses
regarding such things as plagiarism policy, proper citation,
standard table and graph format, etc.
Provide tutorials, guidelines and resources to support skills
needed for a variety of courses in the department
Publicize research and other opportunities for students
Contribute to a common core of knowledge
and resources used across the department's curriculum.
More specificially:
The Plagiarism
Policy, applicable to all courses, explains clearly what
plagiarism is, why it is such a serious offense, and what penalties
it carries;
The Citation Policy, applicable
to all courses, explains how references should be cited in all
research papers;
The Standard Table and Graph Format page explains how variables should be placed in tables and graphs
and what information should always be included;
Library Resources Online describes the most useful searching tools and bibliographic
data bases and contains direct links to a variety of relevant
journals;
MicroCase Resources include instructions
on accessing the network version of MicroCase, descriptions
of available datasets, and instructions, including online tutorials,
for using the program;
The Online Research Tutorials and Videos page provides links to a methods tutorial and to a evolving
set of streaming tutorials and videos that teach basic research
skills and concepts
Virtual Tours are structured
online tours of subject-oriented internet sites that ask the
student to produce and collect a variety of information;
The Recommended Websites page provides
a carefully-selected list of the most comprehensive and best
websites in sociology, anthropology and criminal justice, in
the view of department members;
The Writing in the Discipline page
provides links to resources to facilitate disciplinary-specific
writing skills ;
The Student
Research Opportunities page describes current research projects
of departmental faculty members that students can assist with
and learn valuable research skills, often for independent study
credit;
The Streaming Audio and Video Project page describes the stages in the departrment's exploration
of the pedagogical possibilities of streaming technology,
supported by a series of Rutgers University grants.
Comments and suggestions
from students are welcome and may be sent to Professor
Wood.
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