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Important Dates
Human Services Club: Tues., Oct. 4 @ 7:00 in USU 262 Lewis & Clark room
Daschle Scholar applications due:
Wednesday, Oct. 5.
Native American Holiday: Monday, October 10.
Senior Day: Saturday, October 15.
Semester Halfway Through: Thurs., Oct. 20.
Deficiency Reports Due: Tuesday, October 25.
Early Registration for Spring 2012: Oct. 31 - Nov. 18.
Student Opportunity Fund Application Deadline: Nov. 1 (see info in this newsletter)
Human Services Club: Tues., Nov. 1 @ 7:00 in USU 269 Walder Room
Proficiency Exams: Tues. & Wed. Nov. 1 & 2
Exit Exams: Thurs, Nov. 3.
Hobo Day: Sat., Nov. 5
Last day to drop/withdraw without a grade: Thurs, Nov. 10.
Veterans Day Holiday:
Fri. Nov. 11.
Student IDEA Surveys must be administered to classes between November 18 - December 9, 2011.
Thanksgiving Break:
Wed-Fri, Nov. 23-25.
Last day of classes:
Fri., Dec. 9
Final Exams: Monday-Friday, Dec. 12-16.
Official Graduation Date Noted on Transcript: Fri. Dec 16
Note: There will be no Fall 2011 Commencement Ceremony
Grades due to Registrar: Wed., Dec. 21. Spring Semester starts: Wed. January 11, 2012 @ 4:00 pm. 126th Annual Commencement: Sat., May 5. |
SDSU Sociology
& Rural Studies
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AKD
Alpha Kappa Delta continues to collect food for the local food pantry. There is a drop off site on second floor of Scobey Hall, in the Sociology "Teaching Resource Library".
AKD is an International Sociology Honor Society. The chapter is solely run by the students and has always benefitted from new membership participation and ideas. So if you are interested in finding out more about AKD or joining, you are encouraged to get in touch with one of our chapter members. It is fun, fulfilling and it looks good on your Vita!!!
For more information please feel free to call Erin Seldat-Kline (605)-688-5032 Umit Shrestha (605)-688-6264/or email either umit.shrestha@sdstate.edu or erin.seldat@sdstate.edu.
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Steve Bingner
Class of 1978
Steve Bingner, a former SDSU Sociology student recipient of the Ted Larsen Award, is now a Licensed Psychologist at the Center for Effective Living and Clinical Director of the Rochester Center for Autism.
He shares his story. "I am a 1978 Graduate with a Bachelor's degree in Sociology and Psychology.
In 1978, I recieved the Ted Larsen Award for having the highest overall GPA of any sociology major that academic year. I went on to get my Masters in Behavior Modification at Southern Illinios University at Carbondale. I then moved to Southern Minnesota where my wife, Karel Kruse Bingner a 1979 Graduate of SDSU in the horticulture department, raised our two children.
I have been a licensed psychologist since 1984. I am currently in private practice in Rochester, MN.
My sociology back ground has been a source of pride for me, particularly, receiving the Ted Larsen Award. I am grateful to SDSU for all that I received, both academically and socially.
I was introduced to Sociology at SDSU and found it a good fit for me. The Sociological view point has been valuable to me as I look at the group affects on the individual.
I remember in particular the involvement of sociologists in spreading new ideas by finding the farmers that were most likely to learn these ideas and teaching them first.
Over the course of my career much has changed and the ablity to bring new ideas and have them be accepted by the groups that will benefit them has always been foremost in all I do."
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You Can Help too!
Friends of the Sociology and Rural Studies Program has an opportunity to support student scholarships, help graduate students with presentations, and contribute department activities by donating to the Sociology Fund at the SDSU Foundation.
Student demographics indicate that many students meet the requirements for scholarship support, yet our funds are very limited. Give now and support the department and its students!
http://www.sdsufoundation.org/
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Greetings from SDSU's Sociology and Rural Studies Department! The semester is now off to a busy start and everyone seems to have settled into the new year.
We hope you enjoy this issue of our newsletter and encourage you to send in your news bits! |
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New Club, New Opportunities for Graduate Students
This fall semester begins the inaugural academic year for the newly formed Sociology Graduate Student Organization (SGSO).
The goals of the SGSO are to foster mutual academic support amongst graduate students as well as facilitate improved communication between graduate students and faculty.
Recently the group established first-year PhD student Dan Hattum to serve as graduate student representative. As the grad student rep Dan will attend monthly department meetings in order to communicate graduate student concerns to faculty and report relevant departmental information to the SGSO.
A constitution is also currently in the works with the goal of formalizing SGSO's presence on the SDSU campus.
Although recent SGSO meetings have focused primarily on building a foundation for the organization, future meetings aim to provide a place where graduate students can discuss a variety of issues including study techniques for examinations (including comprehensives), upcoming academic conferences, research ideas for coursework or publications, and other general academic concerns and challenges.
Overall the organization is off to a great start, but we hope to see more graduate students at the next meeting on Tuesday, October 18th at 5pm in Scobey 213.
SGSO provides a great resource for working through any difficulties you are having with coursework or research, as well as a place to get to know your fellow sociology graduate students. We certainly hope to see you at the next meeting!
Best,
SGSO
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Make a Difference!
Be a Leader!
Expand your Horizons!
Build your Resume!
Have fun!
Attend the organizing meeting for the Sociology Student Club: October 18th 6:30 Room 255 in the Student Union.
The Club will set direction for the coming year and decide onopportunities to organize a speakers series, identify career building opportunities including possible field trips and speakers, discover undergraduate research possibilities, and participate in community service.
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| Human Services Club Goes Bowling and Makes Plans
The Human Services Club created the opportunity for new and returning volunteers to bowl with members from Advance for their September event!
Hope Johnson, Co-President of the Human Service Club, stated "The HSC members and Advance members both benefited from this opportunity while having fun!" More than ten Advance members participated and were positively impacted by the experience.
The HSC encourages anyone who is interested to join them for their next meeting on October 4th at 7:00 pm in the Lewis and Clark Room in the Union (#262).
Among other activites, the Human Services Club will spend time working with Project Joy this semester.
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Funding for Students Professional Enrichment
A donor has generously established a fund for undergraduate students needing financial assistance to take advantage of a professional enrichment opportunities such as conferences, workshops, judging and performance opportunities. Click on the link for more information and the application. Current deadline is November 1, 2011.
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Charles Nielsen
1963 M.S. Grad Charles Nielsen has been on an interesting journey beyond Brookings and even beyond the United States. His story, in his words follow. "I graduated from Arlington High School in 1950, but had often been to Brookings for athletic events and church. The next ten years I went to college in Indiana, worked for General Motors, got married, and was on a church staff in Michigan. In 1960 we moved back to Brookings and I began graduate study in Rural Sociology. At the same time I taught a few classes in Religion and helped with a research project on Business Ethics in the Economics Department. I completed my M.S. degree in Rural Sociology in 1963. I then was hired on faculty at Dickinson State College in North Dakota, where I taught a range of courses mainly in sociology. My wife and I had three good years in Dickinson. In 1966 I was offered an attractive faculty position at Warner Pacific College in Portland, Oregon. While teaching there I did additional graduate study at the University of Nebraska and Portland State University. Most of the courses I taught were in Sociology, but some were in Economics. In 1997 I retired at age 65. After retirement, in the spring of 1998, my wife and I volunteered to teach for five weeks at Kazak-American University in Ust-Kamenogorsk, Kazakhstan. My wife had taught at community colleges in Portland. Getting acquainted with Kazakhstan, shortly after it was again a free nation, not a member of the Soviet Union, was a wonderful experience. We still have contact with former students when they come to the United States. Now, 2011, I keep busy with family responsibilities, and am very active with Oregonians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, with the hope that soon people on death row will get "fair trials" and if guilty will be moved to "life without parole". |
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