Professor
Jonathan Sigmon
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Winter 2020 - This class was super interesting. The readings were a little boring at first but they get far more interesting as the quarter goes on. We have to do a weekly journal based on the readings but they are fairly short. You must buy the books though!! Professor Sigmon is super nice and pretty engaging but he can be a little boring since he does not use a mic and his class was late in the day. He gave us study guides for the midterm and final which were extremely helpful. There is also a term paper due at the end of the quarter but you choose your own topic so it is fairly interesting. Overall, I would recommend this class with Professor Sigmon. I am also selling hard copies of the following books for this class: The Meaning of Sociology (9th edition), Mapping the Social Landscape (7th edition), and Readings for Sociology (9th edition). Text me at (909)725-7338 for prices!!
Winter 2020 - This class was super interesting. The readings were a little boring at first but they get far more interesting as the quarter goes on. We have to do a weekly journal based on the readings but they are fairly short. You must buy the books though!! Professor Sigmon is super nice and pretty engaging but he can be a little boring since he does not use a mic and his class was late in the day. He gave us study guides for the midterm and final which were extremely helpful. There is also a term paper due at the end of the quarter but you choose your own topic so it is fairly interesting. Overall, I would recommend this class with Professor Sigmon. I am also selling hard copies of the following books for this class: The Meaning of Sociology (9th edition), Mapping the Social Landscape (7th edition), and Readings for Sociology (9th edition). Text me at (909)725-7338 for prices!!
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Fall 2022 - Professor Sigmon is one of those Professors that you either love or hate. His lecture style consists of mainly reading off his slides, adding comments on the slides, and rinse and repeat. Occasionally he will show a video to demonstrate the concept that is he is going over, but they are really rare. Do I like his lecture style? At first no, I thought it was really boring. Then, the more you realize you don't need to read at all for his class AND his comments usually summarize the slides in a succinct way, the class just clicked for me. This is not universal though. Not everyone will have it "click" like it did for me and be wary that this is how he will lecture for the entire quarter. He tells you everything he needs to tell you and you honestly only need the slides to get through the course. Structure of the class was midterm, paper, and then final with the paper due a few days prior to the final. For both exams, it's going to be short answer question. Since the TA strike happened, the final became multiple choice. As long as you study the slides you really don't need to worry. The paper was just a compare and contrast analysis of two sociologists that Sigmon asks you to compare. Not hard at all. I'd recommend the guy; he's genuinely a cool dude, but his lecture style is not for everyone.
Fall 2022 - Professor Sigmon is one of those Professors that you either love or hate. His lecture style consists of mainly reading off his slides, adding comments on the slides, and rinse and repeat. Occasionally he will show a video to demonstrate the concept that is he is going over, but they are really rare. Do I like his lecture style? At first no, I thought it was really boring. Then, the more you realize you don't need to read at all for his class AND his comments usually summarize the slides in a succinct way, the class just clicked for me. This is not universal though. Not everyone will have it "click" like it did for me and be wary that this is how he will lecture for the entire quarter. He tells you everything he needs to tell you and you honestly only need the slides to get through the course. Structure of the class was midterm, paper, and then final with the paper due a few days prior to the final. For both exams, it's going to be short answer question. Since the TA strike happened, the final became multiple choice. As long as you study the slides you really don't need to worry. The paper was just a compare and contrast analysis of two sociologists that Sigmon asks you to compare. Not hard at all. I'd recommend the guy; he's genuinely a cool dude, but his lecture style is not for everyone.
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Fall 2022 - This class can be an easy class if you don't underestimate it. This class was made up of work for discussion sections, a midterm, final exam, and a final paper (the final is not cumulative). The professor gives you all of the necessary tools to pass the exams because he posts all of his slides and he gives you a study guide like a week or so before the exam. The exams are made up of multiple choice, true or false, and open response questions and the majority of the exam is on lecture material with some questions on the readings thrown in there (so make sure you understand the gist of them leading up to the exams). The study guides pretty much have all of the answers for the exams on them but don't think you can just wing these exams. I made the mistake of underestimating the midterm because the class seemed super easy up until that point. But the exams are made to really test you on the material and guessing won't get you very well. For example, for the true or false questions, if you answered false, you had to fix the statement to make it true. So you really have to know the material to get a good grade. Overall, the class can be a breeze as long as you keep up with the work in discussion sections and study well for the exams. I will say, the professor is a nice guy but he's not the most engaging of lecturers so his lectures do feel pretty boring. Also, the TA strike kind of messed up the flow of the class and the professor wasn't that accommodating about it but other than that it was a good class.
Fall 2022 - This class can be an easy class if you don't underestimate it. This class was made up of work for discussion sections, a midterm, final exam, and a final paper (the final is not cumulative). The professor gives you all of the necessary tools to pass the exams because he posts all of his slides and he gives you a study guide like a week or so before the exam. The exams are made up of multiple choice, true or false, and open response questions and the majority of the exam is on lecture material with some questions on the readings thrown in there (so make sure you understand the gist of them leading up to the exams). The study guides pretty much have all of the answers for the exams on them but don't think you can just wing these exams. I made the mistake of underestimating the midterm because the class seemed super easy up until that point. But the exams are made to really test you on the material and guessing won't get you very well. For example, for the true or false questions, if you answered false, you had to fix the statement to make it true. So you really have to know the material to get a good grade. Overall, the class can be a breeze as long as you keep up with the work in discussion sections and study well for the exams. I will say, the professor is a nice guy but he's not the most engaging of lecturers so his lectures do feel pretty boring. Also, the TA strike kind of messed up the flow of the class and the professor wasn't that accommodating about it but other than that it was a good class.
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