Outline. SOCY 461 can be used for interdisciplinary BMGT credit as well as for credit in sociology. The course explores social connections between and within industry, business, and the community. It addresses among other issues both U.S. and international perspectives on human relations; women's roles in the workplace; high-tech work places and work in the global economy. In addition to class participation (15%), a midterm (30%)and a final exam (30%), a fifteen-page term paper or report (25%) will be required.

Assignments. The book assigned for this course is The Social Organization of Work by Hodson and Sullivan

Below is a schedule of recommended readings and exam dates

                                          Date             Chapter Topics

Week 1          The Evolution of Work - The World of Work
Week 2          Work and the Family - Job Satisfaction

Week 3          Disruptions and Stress - Responses to Work
Week 4          Technology and Organization - MIDTERM

Week 5          Sectors of Labor - High-Technology Workplace
Week 6          Professions - Managers

Week 7          The Large Corporation - Global Economy
Week 8          Work in the Twenty-First Century – FINAL

Faculty.   Collegiate Associate Professor.  Born and raised in Chicago, he returned to Illinois following three years in the U.S. Army to attend Northern Illinois University, from where he graduated with a B.A. in Psychology and an M.A. in Sociology.  Since then he has lectured for the European Division  while living in Augsburg with his wife and son.   In addition to teaching evening classes, he taught for the Day Campus in Germany, AFCENT in the Netherlands, and UMUC in Manama, Bahrain. He started teaching DE six years ago  with a focus on demography, religion, sociological theory, and military sociology. He recently participated in a Washington Post.com interview promoting the PBS Special and book The First Measured Century and is a Fellow in the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society (IUS). He is a participant in the UMUC ADE Project--Accessibility in Distant Education, helps train teachers for the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL),  and works for the Faculty Consultant Service.