Sociology Teachers, Postsecondary

Teach courses in sociology. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.

Social occupations frequently involve working with, communicating with, and teaching people. These occupations often involve helping or providing service to others.

Social

Investigative occupations frequently involve working with ideas, and require an extensive amount of thinking. These occupations can involve searching for facts and figuring out problems mentally.

Investigative

Artistic occupations frequently involve working with forms, designs and patterns. They often require self-expression and the work can be done without following a clear set of rules.

Artistic

Conventional occupations frequently involve following set procedures and routines. These occupations can include working with data and details more than with ideas. Usually there is a clear line of authority to follow.

Conventional

Enterprising occupations frequently involve starting up and carrying out projects. These occupations can involve leading people and making many decisions. Sometimes they require risk taking and often deal with business.

Enterprising

Realistic occupations frequently involve work activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions. They often deal with plants, animals, and real-world materials like wood, tools, and machinery. Many of the occupations require working outside, and do not involve a lot of paperwork or working closely with others.

Realistic

Job Zone Five: Extensive Preparation Needed

Evaluate and grade students' class work, assignments, and papers.

Initiate, facilitate, and moderate classroom discussions.

Compile, administer, and grade examinations, or assign this work to others.

Prepare and deliver lectures to undergraduate or graduate students on topics such as race and ethnic relations, measurement and data collection, and workplace social relations.

Prepare course materials, such as syllabi, homework assignments, and handouts.

Keep abreast of developments in the field by reading current literature, talking with colleagues, and participating in professional conferences.

Conduct research in a particular field of knowledge and publish findings in professional journals, books, or electronic media.

Plan, evaluate, and revise curricula, course content, course materials, and methods of instruction.

Maintain student attendance records, grades, and other required records.

Supervise undergraduate or graduate teaching, internship, and research work.

IBM SPSS Statistics

StataCorp Stata

The MathWorks MATLAB

Collaborative editing software

Google Docs

Microsoft Word

Blackboard Learn

Course management system software

Learning management system LMS

Sakai CLE

Email software

Microsoft Outlook

DOC Cop

iParadigms Turnitin

Microsoft Excel

Image scanning software

Microsoft Office software

Web browser software

Handheld microphones

Wireless microphones

Computer data input scanners

Document scanners

Liquid crystal display LCD televisions

Television monitors

Interactive whiteboard controllers

Student response systems

Computer projectors

Multimedia projection equipment

Interactive whiteboards

Webcams

Photocopying equipment

Microphone podiums

Videoconferencing equipment

Senior Contributing Faculty

Becoming a professor so late in life can't be done!

William Benet

Senior Contributing Faculty

Education

Career

Career Roadmap

My work combines:

My work combines:

Government

Philosophy & Religion

Upholding a Cause and Belief

Recommended Education

Hurdles

The Noise I Shed

From Society in General:

William Benet

Senior Contributing Faculty

Education

Career

Career Roadmap

My work combines:

My work combines:

Government

Philosophy & Religion

Upholding a Cause and Belief

Recommended Education

My career is related to what I studied. I'd recommend the path I took:

Hurdles

The Noise I Shed

From Society in General:

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