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Career Details :: Sociology Teachers, Postsecondary

Description

Teach courses in sociology.

Experience

Extensive skill, knowledge, and experience are needed for these occupations. Many require more than five years of experience. For example, surgeons must complete four years of college and an additional five to seven years of specialized medical training to be able to do their job.

Education

A bachelor's degree is the minimum formal education required for these occupations. However, many also require graduate school. For example, they may require a master's degree, and some require a Ph.D., M.D., or J.D. (law degree).

Training

Employees may need some on-the-job training, but most of these occupations assume that the person will already have the required skills, knowledge, work-related experience, and/or training.

Tasks

• Prepares and delivers lectures to students.
• Compiles bibliographies of specialized materials for outside reading assignments.
• Directs research of other teachers or graduate students working for advanced academic degrees.
• Serves on faculty committee providing professional consulting services to government and industry.
• Acts as adviser to student organizations.
• Conducts research in particular field of knowledge and publishes findings in professional journals.
• Advises students on academic and vocational curricula.
• Stimulates class discussions.
• Compiles, administers, and grades examinations, or assigns this work to others.

Related Careers

• Anthropologists
  
• Clergy
  
• Education Administrators, Elementary and Secondary School
  
• Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education
  
• Government Service Executives
  
• Historians
  
• Instructional Coordinators
  
• Kindergarten Teachers, Except Special Education
  
• Sociologists
  

Important Abilities

• Oral Expression
• Written Expression
• Written Comprehension
• Speech Clarity
• Oral Comprehension

General Work Activities

• Teaching Others
• Getting Information Needed to Do the Job
• Communicating With Other Workers
• Coaching and Developing Others
• Establishing & Maintaining Relationships

Important Skills

• Instructing
  
• Reading Comprehension
  
• Speaking
  
• Active Learning
  
• Critical Thinking
  

Frequent Work Context

• Job-Required Social Interaction
• Indoors
• Importance of Being Sure All Is Done
• Objective or Subjective Information
• Consequence of Error

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African-American/African Studies	[ add ]
African/African-American Studies	[ add ]
African/Afro-American Studies	[ add ]
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Africana Women's Studies	[ add ]
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American Culture	[ add ]
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American History	[ add ]
American Humanics	[ add ]
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American Studies	[ add ]
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Black/Puerto Rican Studies	[ add ]
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Community Mental Health Counseling	[ add ]
Community Psychology	[ add ]
Comprehensive Social Studies	[ add ]
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Conflict/Peace Studies	[ add ]
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Correctional Studies	[ add ]
Corrections	[ add ]
Corrections Administration	[ add ]
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Counseling Children/Adolescents	[ add ]
Counseling Psychology	[ add ]
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Counseling/Clinical Psychology	[ add ]
Counseling/Educational Psychology	[ add ]
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Criminal Justice	[ add ]
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Economics/Sociology	[ add ]
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Education/Child Study	[ add ]
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Environment/Technology/Society	[ add ]
Environmental Policy/Science/Values	[ add ]
Environmental/Resource Economics	[ add ]
Ethics/Politics/Economics	[ add ]
Ethnic/Gender Studies	[ add ]
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European Studies	[ add ]
Exercise/Sport Science	[ add ]
Exercise/Sports Science	[ add ]
Exercise/Sports Studies	[ add ]
Experimental Psychology	[ add ]
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Fitness Promotion	[ add ]
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French Area Studies	[ add ]
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German/Political Science	[ add ]
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Germanic Studies	[ add ]
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Gerontological Case Manager	[ add ]
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Health Promotion	[ add ]
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History	[ add ]
History of American Civilization	[ add ]
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History of Medicine/Science	[ add ]
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Human Learning/Development	[ add ]
Human Relations	[ add ]
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