02-18-2018, 03:33 PM
Provider: Straighterline
Course: Intro to Sociology
Course content: The course consists of 13 units with 10 quizzes, a graded midterm exam, and a final exam. Each unit has assigned reading from the textbook (eBook is included with the purchase of the course) that consists of about 35 to 40 pages each (usually.) Also, each unit has an accompanying slide presentation, but I didn't watch any of those and I still passed (A-95%) without any issues. All of that said, I found some parts of the course interesting and hated others. Anything with dripping praise, adulation, uncritical and dishonest examination of Marx, Marxism, or conflict theory ….. yuck!
Final exam format: 60 questions, all multiple choice, 2 hours, and it's closed book.
Final exam content vs course content/practice exams: Good overlap between the questions on the unit quizzes and the final. All quizzes and the midterm are open book. Some quiz questions are looking for obscure or relatively unimportant information from the textbook (ex: statistics) that have little to do measuring whether or not you really understand the subject matter.
Time taken on course: About 3 weeks, 10 - 15 hours of reading a week plus quizzes.
Familiarity with subject before course: Low. I would have failed miserably without carefully reading the textbook and taking notes.
Pitfalls, high points, things others should know: I highly recommend taking notes throughout the course to get a good understanding of the big picture, but you’ll still need the book for the quizzes and midterm. Also, at the end of each chapter is a section that gives you a good overview of what’s contained in the chapter. I suggest reading that first as it helped me to better understand how the information in the chapter was laid out.
1-10 Difficulty level: 5
Course: Intro to Sociology
Course content: The course consists of 13 units with 10 quizzes, a graded midterm exam, and a final exam. Each unit has assigned reading from the textbook (eBook is included with the purchase of the course) that consists of about 35 to 40 pages each (usually.) Also, each unit has an accompanying slide presentation, but I didn't watch any of those and I still passed (A-95%) without any issues. All of that said, I found some parts of the course interesting and hated others. Anything with dripping praise, adulation, uncritical and dishonest examination of Marx, Marxism, or conflict theory ….. yuck!
Final exam format: 60 questions, all multiple choice, 2 hours, and it's closed book.
Final exam content vs course content/practice exams: Good overlap between the questions on the unit quizzes and the final. All quizzes and the midterm are open book. Some quiz questions are looking for obscure or relatively unimportant information from the textbook (ex: statistics) that have little to do measuring whether or not you really understand the subject matter.
Time taken on course: About 3 weeks, 10 - 15 hours of reading a week plus quizzes.
Familiarity with subject before course: Low. I would have failed miserably without carefully reading the textbook and taking notes.
Pitfalls, high points, things others should know: I highly recommend taking notes throughout the course to get a good understanding of the big picture, but you’ll still need the book for the quizzes and midterm. Also, at the end of each chapter is a section that gives you a good overview of what’s contained in the chapter. I suggest reading that first as it helped me to better understand how the information in the chapter was laid out.
1-10 Difficulty level: 5
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