DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY & SOCIOLOGY
ALUMNI QUESTIONNAIRE—SPRING 2007

 

Please follow the directions within this questionnaire in order to complete the appropriate questions.

 
1. Why did you decide to major in Sociology?
2.

Did you have another major?  Yes      No

If yes, what major?  

3. Did you have a minor?     Yes      No
If yes, what minor?
4.  What year did you graduate? 
5.

Of the following, which one best describes what you did the year after graduating from Trinity?

Found employment related to long term career interests
Entered a Medical Degree program
Entered a Law Degree program  
Entered a MPH Degree program  
Entered an MBA Degree program
Entered other Masters Degree program (what field?)
Entered a Doctoral Degree program (what field?)
Other (please specify)

6. Did you continue your education? Yes No
If yes, what degree did you receive?
7.  What are you doing now?
8. How happy are you with what you are doing now?
not at all happy moderately happy usually happy very happy
9. What are your long-term goals?
10. What are your long-term occupational goals?
11.

Are you involved in any community or civic activities? yes no

If yes, please list the main activities:

This list contains some abilities and skills that may be developed in individuals as they pursue a bachelor’s degree.  Please indicate the extent to which each ability was enhanced by your experiences at Trinity, as well as how important each is in your current endeavors, by circling one code number in each group, for each ability.

 

Enhanced This Ability While An

Undergraduate at Trinity

 

Important to You in Current

Endeavors

 

 

 

Not

At All

 

Very Little

 

A Little

 

Much

 

Very Much

 

Not

 At All

 

Very Little

 

A Little

 

Much

 

Very Much

12.

Write effectively 

13.

Communicate well orally 

14.

Acquire new skills and knowledge on my own 

15.

Think analytically and logically 

16.

Formulate creative and original ideas and solutions

17.

Evaluate and choose between alternative courses of action

18.

Lead and supervise tasks and groups of people

19.

Relate well to people of different races, ethnic backgrounds, and religions

20.

Function effectively as a team member

21.

Quantitative tools and skills (e.g., statistics and computers)

22.

Place current problems in historical, cultural, and philosophical perspective

23.

Identify moral and ethical issues

24.

Understand myself and my abilities, interests, limitations, and personality

25.  If there was one thing that you could have changed within the Department of Sociology, what would that have been?
26. What did you like best about the Department of Sociology?
27. What did you like least about the Department of Sociology?
28. For each course you have completed at Trinity, use the following scale to indicate the extent of your agreement with statements A and B:
 

SOCI 1301  Introduction to Sociology

A.  This course’s subject is very important is preparing students for studies in Sociology

B.  I learned a lot in this course.
 

SOCI 3360  Research Methods

A.  This course’s subject is very important is preparing students for studies in Sociology

B.  I learned a lot in this course.
  SOCI 4361  Social Theory

A.  This course’s subject is very important is preparing students for studies in Sociology

B.  I learned a lot in this course.
29. What was the best course you took from the Department of Sociology and Sociology and why?
30. What non-Sociology course most assisted you in your career?
31. 

Please provide us with three words or short phrases that describe your overall perception of the Sociology COURSES.
32.

Please provide us with three words or short phrases that describe your overall perception of the Sociology ADVISING:
33. 

Please provide us with three words or short phrases that describe your overall perception of the Sociology FACULTY:
34.

The Department currently offers the following Sociology courses.  Please check all courses you have taken:

Lower Division (No prerequisites)  

1301 Introduction to Sociology

1306 Introduction to Social Psychology
 2311 Sociology of Sex Roles
2312 Sociology of Marriage and the Family Experience
2314  Social Problems and Human Values
2323 Deviance: Social and Personal

Upper Division (Any one lower division course satisfies the prerequisite for upper division courses.)
3109 Relaciones fronterizas: México-Estados Unidos (Mexico-U.S. Border Relations)
3324 Crime and Delinquency
3325 Drugs and Society
3326 Mexico-United States Border Relations
 3327 Contemporary Minorities
 3328 Social Inequality
 3330 Sociolinguistics
 3331 Language, Culture and Society
 3332 Sociology of Health and Illness
 3333 Sociology of Religion
 3336 Political Sociology
 3337 Organizations: Private, Public & Popular
 3338 Work and Professions

3339 The Welfare State
 3346 Childhood and Youth
 3347 Processes of Aging
 3348 Death and Dying
 3350 Sociology of Law

3351 Sociology of Knowledge

3352  Mind, Body & Society
 3353  Research Methods: Fieldwork

3354  Mexican Americans in the U.S.

3360 Research Methods: Social Statistics
 4361 Social Theory
 3-71, 4-71 Sociology Practicum
 3-90 Sociological Projects
 3394 Seminar

 
35.

Given your post-graduate experiences, are there any other courses you would like to recommend to the department?   

If yes, what other courses?

36.  There are occasionally courses that one has taken whose value really is not fully appreciated until years later.  Were there any such courses for you?

If yes, what other courses?

37.  If there were one thing that you wanted to say to the faculty in the Department of Sociology, what would that be?