Political Sociology. Assignment One.
Type Your Name Here:
This assignment must be completed and turned in to the "Assignment Box" on our course's WEBCT site by the time announced on the Schedule and Announcements Page. Your first step is to open the assignment in Netscape Composer or another html editor. To do this in Netscape, click on "file" and then on "edit page." In Internet Explorer, click on "edit" and "page" and the file will open in the Microsoft Frontpage html editor. If neither of these works, just save the file and open it in your word processor; in this case make sure to save it in html format - *.htm - rather than in *.doc or *.wpd format. Any late model word processor will have this capability. In any case, you should save the file on your own hard disk or floppy disk, giving it the name psone. Your editor will add the file extension .htm, making the full name psone.htm. [If your editor makes it psone.html that is o.k. too.] You should keep the assignment open in one window, while you do the other tasks in another window. As you complete the tasks, type the answers into the file. When you are done, follow the instructions in the last item below to turn it in.
1. If you have an Internet email account where you usually receive mail, type in the address here. If you do not have one, open one on clam and type in the address here:
2. Sign up for the class's WEBCT site. To do this, follow the instructions for signing up for WEBCT.
3. Sign up for The New York Times on the WEB, and paste in here the headline and first paragraph from a news story from the politics page of today's Times. We will be using material from the Times throughout the semester.
4. If you are working on the computer
where you will most frequently receive email, join the class mlist now.
Instructions for doing so are at the bottom of this assignment. If
you are working at Rutgers, but usually get email at home or at work, join
the mlist from that location as soon as you can. Check off one of
the following:
I have joined the mlist.
I will join the mlist within 24 hours from another email address.
5. Type a 250 word paragraph on the topic: "Why I think [Bush or Gore] will win the presidential election this fall." You may find the articles we read for September 5th's class useful. Highlight your paragraph, copy it, then paste it into the Main Forum on the WEBCT Bulletin Board.
6. Now save this file with the name psone.htm on your hard drive, your H drive on clam, or a floppy disk. Please use html format. Then upload it and deposit it in the "Assignment Dropbox" on WEB CT. Be sure to have WEBCT send you a confirmation letter stating that your assignment has been received. Save this letter. In the unlikely event that there should be any problem with WEBCT accepting your assignment, print out the confirmation letter with all the header information and bring it to me. Other wise "the computer lost my assignment" will not be a valid excuse. Click Here for Instructions on Submitting Assignments.
Mlist instructions:
This class has a computerized
mailing list. This list is used for occasional messages from the
Instructors and from students (if it is not abused). To be sure of
receiving these messages, you must sign up for the mailing list by sending
an email message to:
majordomo@camden.rutgers.edu
In the text of the
message (not in the subject line, which can be left blank) say the following
subscribe
mlist-soc-politicalsoc
end
You
may send your email message from any Internet account: you should
use the account where you most frequently check your mail. If you
do not have an account for receiving email, first
open an account on clam, then learn how to use Netscape
Mail.
Majordomo
will send a response to your email account. If you have successfully
joined the list, it will tell you so. If it tells you there is a
problem, figure out what it is and apply again. Usually the problems
occur because you leave a space between the parts of mlist-sts-internet
or because you put "end" on the same line as the "subscribe mlist-soc-politicalsoc"
command.