Abstract
The purpose of this course project is to explore racial discourses in everyday lives and apply concepts learned in an upper-division course on race and ethnicity or social inequality to analyze how the way in which we talk about race and racism is influenced by our intersecting identities (race/gender/class/sexuality/color/ability/etc.) and how these...
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Details
- Subject Area(s):
- Racial and Ethnic Relations
- Resource Type(s):
- Assignment
- Class Level(s):
- College 300, College 400
- Class Size(s):
- Medium, Small
Usage Notes
When to Use This Activity
This course project is designed to be used in small to medium classes and in upper division sociology courses that include a focus on race and ethnicity. We recommend using this course project in upper division courses because we found that students in upper division courses had already taken...
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Learning Goals and Assessments
Learning Goal(s):
- Learning Goal 1: Students practice a qualitative research method, interviews, to gather data to understand a social inequality
- Learning Goal 2: Students practice the qualitative research method technique of reflexivity to help them practice metacognition on what they learned while conducting an interview.
- Learning Goal 3: Students apply course concepts about social inequality to analyze qualitative data.
Goal Assessment(s):
- Goal Assessment 1: Students conduct an interview with someone they know about how they learned about race and ethnicity and other social inequalities in their families.
- Goal Assessment 2: Students write two discussion board reflection papers on the interview process and on their own experiences with the research topic.
- Goal Assessment 3: Students write a final paper that applies course concepts to their participant’s lived experiences.
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