Sociology Teachers, Postsecondary
Teach courses in sociology. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.
Also called: Assistant Professor, Professor, Sociology Instructor, Sociology Professor
Knowledge:
- English language
- history and archeology
- sociology and anthropology
- psychology
- teaching and course design
Engineering and Technology
- computers and electronics
Skills:
- talking to others
- listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
- teaching people how to do something
- understanding people's reactions
- noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it
Abilites:
- communicate by speaking
- communicate by writing
- make general rules or come up with answers from lots of detailed information
- use rules to solve problems
Personality:
Description: People interested in this work like activities that include helping people, teaching, and talking.
They do well at jobs that need
- Integrity
- Analytical Thinking
- Dependability
- Achievement/Effort
- Self Control
- Independence
Technology:
Analytical or scientific software
Computer based training software
- Blackboard Learn
- Desire2Learn
- Google Docs
- Microsoft Word
