Department of Community and Environmental Sociology, University of Wisconsin Madison
Sociology/Community and Environmental Sociology 985
Research: Sociology of Environment, Technology, and Agrofood Systems
The "SociETAS" Seminar
Fall Semester, 2009
Faculty Coordinator: Jess Gilbert [gilbert@ssc.wisc.edu]
Mondays [except 1st of month], noon - 1 p.m.
301 Agriculture Hall
Purpose:
The SociETAS Training Seminar is offered each semester to provide opportunities for graduate student/faculty interchange on topics relating to environment, technology, and agrofood systems.
Format:
We aim to make the SociETAS seminar a lively intellectual forum as well as a supportive environment in which students and faculty-primarily from Sociology and Rural Sociology, but from across campus as well-can present their work. Students and faculty 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 suggest!
Talks presented in the seminar should be about twenty minutes long, certainly less than thirty minutes. Disciplining yourself to keep it short is good and necessary training for presentations at professional meetings. Plus it gives us plenty of time to respond and discuss your work. We will be done by 1 p.m.
Who Should Participate in the SociETAS Training Seminar? :
All graduate students and faculty interested in environment, technology, and agrofood systems are warmly invited to participate. The seminar affords an opportunity for entering students to become acquainted with ongoing research on SociETAS topics and for more senior students to present their work. Presentation of research being undertaken for master's theses, dissertations, conference papers, journal articles, and books is appropriate for this forum. Practice job talks are also welcome. In addition to work in the social, political-economic, and cultural study of SociETAS topics, we encourage presentations on natural science topics related to the interests of seminar participants.
Requirements for Enrolled Students:
Students who are responsibly 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 Jess Gilbert. Students not formally registered for the class are also strongly encouraged to attend and participate in our discussions of natural resources/environment, science/technology, and food/agriculture.
