SoSC 210 Learning Guide - Unit 1

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SOSC 210 Learning Guide Introduction Unit 1 Introduction to this class Each week the class will have a learning guide to assist in identifying the core concepts that are required to succeed in this class. We will accomplish this with learning guides like this one. What you will find in each learning guide is a description of the material you will be reading with corresponding questions. Each week there will be a learning guide that you will need to fill out. The learning guides have questions that are important to the material. As a student in this class, it is your responsibility to understand the material being presented. These questions help you pinpoint that. Additionally, the questions below correspond significantly to the questions that will be asked on the quizzes. One of the keys to this class is understanding how to fill out a learning guide. My suggestion is to read the questions in each section first, then read the material, and as you're reading the material, write down a note about the question or specific information that you're trying to gather. It has been my experience that what does NOT work is writing down a page number and hoping that you can reference back to that page number during an examination. Because the tests are timed, it is almost impossible to do that consistently with good results. Please note that there may be questions on a quiz or the final that are not on question lists. All reading material can and will be on quizzes and exams. Announcements In the next 17 weeks, we are going to be exploring the features of different office suites, data visualization products and then explore data, its journey into information, and ultimately into actionable knowledge with all of its inherent bias. If you ever have any questions, please do not hesitate to send me an email. I will try to respond within 24 hours. I am looking forward to getting to know each of you. Each week there is a summary of what we will be accomplishing for the week. These emails and these notices inform you of what you will need to complete by the week. For this first week of class, we want to make sure you are set up for success over the remainder of the semester. To that end, in this lesson, you will find instructions about how to: Expectations for this week Copyright 2023 Matthew Herman All rights reserved Page 1 of 5

● Watch the Introduction to SOSC 210 and Canvas video ● Download Microsoft Office, the desktop version, not web, if you do not already have it installed (or are using a remote lab) ● Buy the course textbook ● Log into LinkedIn online training ● Complete the learning guide for this week (below) ○ Learning Guides are for you. They help you prepare for the quiz. You do not submit them. ● Complete the Unit 1 quiz As a reminder, all homework/quizzes: Due by 11:59 on Sunday. Syllabus Understanding the expectations of this class will ensure that you will be successful. Please read the syllabus carefully and answer the following questions. 1. What are the 3-course objectives for this class? Become familiar and comfortable with the productivity software and operation of personal computers in a Windows environment. Understand the uses and capabilities of word- processing, spreadsheet, presentation, database, communications, GIS, and statistical analysis programs and demonstrate skill in their utilization. Understand data sources and the inherent bias when data turns into information. 2. How much does the required textbook for this class cost? $40 3. Is a windows-based personal computer required for this course’s assignments? Yes 4. I can use a Macintosh version of MS Office for this course’s assignments. No 5. Does the University offer a desktop version of Microsoft Office? Yes 6. How much does it cost for the PC version of Microsoft Office? Free 7. Is Microsoft Office 365 web-based environment acceptable? No 8. Roughly how much do homework and quizzes represent in your entire grade? 84% 9. When is your weekly homework assignment due? Sunday 10. The examinations in the class are open book, open Notes, and open computer. True 11. Is late homework allowed? No 12. Is extra credit provided in this class? Yes 13. Is there any other software that I can substitute for Microsoft Word, Excel, and Powerpoint? No LinkedIn LinkedIn learning is used throughout this semester. Please make sure you log in to LinkedIn as directed in week 1. Here is the test link for your convenience. Copyright 2023 Matthew Herman All rights reserved Page 2 of 5

14. Write down the length of time for the section titled “Configure your public profile.” 2m 8s Social Science This course is designed to help social science majors utilize the appropriate technology for their discipline. One of the unique aspects of social science is how encompassing a discipline it is. Please review this Wikipedia article and answer the following questions. 15. What are the branches of Social Science? anthropology, archaeology, economics, human geography, linguistics, management science, media studies, political science, psychology, and social history 16. The modern period of social science was influenced by what? Sociology . 17. Holistic anthropology is the study of? human cultures/societies through time and space as well as our primate relatives. 18. Communication studies integrate what two aspects? of both social sciences and the humanities. 19. Economics is defined by Lionel Robbins in 1932 as? "the science which studies human behavior as a relation between scarce means having alternative uses". 20. The Latin base for Education means what? To draw out 21. Modern geography seeks to understand what? that seeks to understand? humanity and its natural environment. 22. What fields are closely related to geography? of urban planning, regional science, and planetology 23. When was the Social Science History Association formed? 1976 24. What does jurisprudence mean? A rule that is capable of enforcement through institutions 25. Sociolinguistics often uses what investigative style? traditional quantitative analysis and statistics in investigating the frequency of features, while 26. Empirical methods of political science include what models? traditional quantitative analysis and statistics in investigating the frequency of features, while 27. Is psychology a very broad science or a very narrow science? broad 28. Who coined the term sociology? Auguste Comte Computational Social Science In recent years with the advancements in technologies as well as data storage, a sub-discipline of Social Science has emerged. That discipline is Computational Social Science. Please read this Wikipedia article and answer the following questions. 29. How are computers used in computational social science? Model, simulate, and analyze social phenomena, 30. Computational social science relies on the availability of what? Big data Copyright 2023 Matthew Herman All rights reserved Page 3 of 5

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History of the Word Processor Watch this Youtube video about the history of word processing. 31. The word processor was derived from combining the computer with a much earlier invention. What was that? typewriter 32. What does a transistor do? Regulates or controls voltage flow 33. What is the standard letter form language used by computers to handle the on/off nature of computer chips? ASCII 34. The punch photograph was a futile attempt to deter who? s to prevent use of a ticket by anyone other than the purchaser. 35. What was the origin of the phrase computer crash? Analog feeders ceased processing but continued feeding 36. The comparing circuit helps word processors do what? Spell check History of Microsoft Office One of the main packages they will be using in this class is Microsoft Word. it is helpful to understand the history of Microsoft Word as well as a history of word processors in general. Please read this article about Microsoft Word and answer the below questions. 37. When was Microsoft Office officially announced? 1988 38. The first version of Microsoft Office contained what products? Word, Excel, powerpoint 39. Of all the Microsoft Office versions, which one is the most widely used? Desktop 40. In what environment and year was the first graphical version of Microsoft Word built? MSDOS 1990 41. Who was the original competitor to Microsoft Excel? Lotus123 42. The web version of Microsoft Office has the same features as the full desktop version of Office. T/ F When Graphs Are a Matter of Life and Death This is where the class gets interesting. Using the tools in this class will expose you to understanding the implications of the data. You are turning data into information, then knowledge with actions. Or more importantly, how to critically evaluate the validity of the data that you are looking at. Read this article to get a primer of what is to come within this class and answer the following questions. 43. What was the temperature of the car when it started having gasket failures? 40 degrees 44. What was the graphics really about? Challenger explosion 45. As Friendly and Wainer observe, graphics speak to what ? Directly to the eyes 46. Scottish engineer William Playfair can be credited with creating which graphs? Time- series 47. What does this image depict? And how do you read it? Trains, by the lines Copyright 2023 Matthew Herman All rights reserved Page 4 of 5

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