Department of Community and Environmental Sociology, University of Wisconsin Madison
Sociology/Community and Environmental Sociology 985
Research: Community and Environmental Sociology
The ComE Soc Seminar
Fall Semester, 2011
Faculty Coordinators: Michael Bell and Jane Collins
Mondays, 12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
301 Agriculture Hall
Purpose:
The ComE Soc Seminar is offered each semester to provide opportunities for intellectual exchange on topics relating to the sociological inquiry of community and environment. Like the department, the seminar has changed from its former name, SociETAS, to better reflect the research interests of department faculty and students. Consequently, the seminar is more broadly focused on matters surrounding the sociological study of communities and the environment.
Format:
We aim to make the ComE Soc seminar a lively intellectual forum as well as a supportive environment in which students, faculty and academic staff—primarily from Sociology and Community & Environmental Sociology, but from across campus as well—can present their work. Students, faculty and academic staff members interested in presenting their work should speak to me. As well, we will have occasional outside speakers, panel discussions, and other formats for sessions. If you have an idea for a session, please share it with me.
Talks presented in the seminar should be about twenty to thirty minutes long. Disciplining yourself to keep it short is practical training for presentations at professional meetings. Plus it gives us plenty of time to respond and discuss your work. The seminar meeting concludes by 1:10 p.m.
Who Should Participate in the ComE Training Seminar? :
All graduate students, faculty and staff interested in community and environmental sociology are warmly invited to participate. The seminar affords an opportunity for entering students to become acquainted with on-going research on topics and for more senior students to present their work. Presentation of well-developed research being undertaken for master’s theses, dissertations, conference papers, journal articles, and books is appropriate for this forum. Practice job talks are also encouraged.
Requirements for Enrolled Students:
Students who are regular participants in the seminar usually enroll for 1 credit. Students making a presentation to the seminar or who organize a discussion of a reading may take the seminar for 2 credits, assuming that they also attend most of the seminar meetings. Ordinarily the seminar is not graded on an A-B-C basis. If you think you have good reason for being graded on an A-B-C basis, please contact me at the beginning of the semester. Students not formally registered for the class are also strongly encouraged to attend and participate in our discussions of community and environmental sociology.
