Student Spotlight
Mary Candace Full
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Mary Candace Full is a graduating Sociology senior. She has been actively involved in education-related work, and plans to make teaching her career. Read more about her below! |
Where are you from? What are your backgrounds? I have always lived in the Bay Area, but I was born in Concord. Most of me is Norwegian. I grew up in the water, I love to swim! How did you become interested in Sociology? I think I was interested in Sociology before I knew what Sociology was! My Education and African American Studies classes pushed me to think like a sociologist. Then I took Sociology 1 with Professor Gold and read C. Wright Mills ten times that first week of class. Which topics in the field of Sociology interest you the most? Community Empowerment, Social Change, the -isms and intersectionality theory, Urban Schools, (Youth) Participatory Action Research Are you involved in any activities that you consider to be related to Sociology? BUSA, Education Undergraduates, and I teach at three continuation high schools across the Bay Area in connection to my senior honors thesis research. Your favorite part of being a Soc major? Favorite part: critical sociological thinking - I love engaging in dialogue in classes and with friends, and mostly bringing sociological thinking outside of class to my work with young people. Favorite Soc class(es) at Cal? Sociology 131AC with Barlow, Sociology 111 with Kelsey. I took a graduate class in the Social Welfare department called Community Organizing, which was also one of my favorite classes. Career plans? What type of work would you like to pursue? I am going to be a teacher for the rest of my life! In Fall 2009 I will enter a Masters/Credential Program in Education at UCLA, to become a high school math teacher. I'm so excited! Anything else you would like to share? Advice for other students? My thesis is called: "Your peoples understand it, but to them, you a failure": Continuation High School Youth Understanding and Challenging School Exclusion in the Fight for a More Humanizing Education (April 2009) 
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