This is an assessment instrument that I developed in Qualtrics. I administered it once as part of a pre-post course assessment on student development of and/or confidence in their professional materials and skills. In that pilot administration, almost all the...

Undergraduate students benefit from high-impact and inquiry-driven opportunities that bring sociology to life. The goal of this innovative assessment is to facilitate learning sociological content through developing data collection and analysis skills. Developed...

This article presents, with hopes of replication, a program designed to foster the social-emotional growth, community, connection and self-discovery for students through a program called “Snapshots of Joy”. The multi-part program encourages students, of any grade...

This unusual and engaging class activity uses a mock athletic event to introduce and examine the four levels of measurement in research methods and statistics courses. Using inexpensive and readily available items such as common types of fruit and disposable...

I utilize the film The Hunger Games (2012) in my upper-level, Social Stratification course to engage students, help students understand course material, provide an opportunity for students to practice using their sociological imaginations, and develop...

This is a syllabus for a one (1) unit course required for all Sociology majors, as well as Criminology and Justice Studies majors. The course is listed in the curricular map for students in their second or third year of a 4-year major plan. We designed this course...

In this assignment, students will work in groups to apply the knowledge that they typically gain in a general sociological research methods courses to collect and analyze quantitative data about cities. This assignment is ideal for assessing student learning after...

Interviews are one of the most used qualitative research methods in sociology, yet the methodology on teaching students how to design, conduct and analyze interviews in the service of a research question is largely underdeveloped. This learning technique consists...

As “feminist” and “feminism” continue to be used and sometimes embraced in the public discourse, the question arises of what these terms actually mean and how they are being applied. In this in-class activity, students will begin to grapple with the underlying...

This submission includes resume assignment details and resources used in a required, one-unit Sociology Professional Development Seminar. This submission includes a rubric to support development of the resume as well as the (peer) review process. The rubric...