Undergraduate students often struggle to relate to social theory, which they see as abstract and outdated. Hoping to bring social theory to the present, this in-class activity and follow-up assignment challenge students to develop theoretically informed policy...

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...

In Public Sociology, the intent is to teach students how to make sociological knowledge public, that is, accessible to a non-expert or lay audience. The assigned sociological readings are organized using the Sociology Literacy Framework and take an intersectional...

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 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 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...