This in-class activity is designed to help students understand the theory of racial formation in the United States by having them identify “hegemony” in relation to their own positionality. Using the backfire effect as a medium to explain the elements of coercion...

This is the syllabus for "Cinematic Sociology," a class that is not about film theory, film production, or the film industry, but rather a class that uses classic and contemporary narrative film as a source of sociological analysis. Films are not screened in...

Making connections between personal experiences and sociological learning in Race, Class, and Gender is of paramount importance. This assignment challenges students to critically reflect on what they have learned, to relate a chosen past experience to what they...

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...

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...

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 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...