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May 31, 2023

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Susan Caringella
DESIGNING A PRO-CRIME POLICY: A CLASS EXERCISE
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Criminology/Delinquency
Resource Type(s):
Class Activity
Class Level(s):
College 200
Abstract:
The purpose of this assignment is to prompt your thinking about crime and its control in American society. We will begin this process by generating ideas about what breeds high levels of crime (i.e., by identifying criminogenic factors across all spheres of society)....
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Scott Sernau
The Internship Experience as a Service Learning Capstone
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Capstone Courses
Resource Type(s):
Syllabus
Class Level(s):
College 400
Abstract:
As part of the course, students complete the following: 1. Together, with our internship office and myself, they select a field site and formulate a Field Experience Plan. The one-page plan states their personal learning objectives and planned activities to achieve...
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Joseph W. Rogers
Technique 53: Education/Information vs. Propaganda
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Teaching and Learning in Sociology
Resource Type(s):
Class Activity
Abstract:
Teaching Objectives/Student Learning Outcomes: To assist students in distinguishing between these two.
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David B. Bills
EDUCATION, RACE, AND ETHNICITY
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Education
Resource Type(s):
Syllabus
Class Level(s):
Graduate
Abstract:
The goal of this course is to examine race and ethnicity in American education and their relationships with both the broader role of schooling and education in American society and such dimensions of social inequality as gender and class. Major topics in the course...
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Mikaila Mariel Lemonik Arthur
Racial and Ethnic Relations
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Racial and Ethnic Relations
Resource Type(s):
Syllabus
Class Level(s):
College 200
Abstract:
This course has three primary substantive aims: first, to develop an understanding of how the idea of race has emerged and developed in the United States; and second, to understand how race intersects with other systems of inequality (including class, gender,...
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Jessica Fields
Social Theory and Cultural Diversity
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Teaching and Learning in Sociology
Resource Type(s):
Assignment
Class Level(s):
Any Level
Abstract:
For their final project in "Social Theory and Cultural Diversity," students construct an alternative syllabus, complete with instructional aims, assigned texts, and pedagogical rationales. The project compels students to consider the semester as a whole: its...
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Timothy Buzzell
Senior Seminar in Sociology
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Capstone Courses
Resource Type(s):
Syllabus
Class Level(s):
College 400
Abstract:
The Senior Seminar in Sociology is the final course in the program’s course of study. The Seminar is designed to provide an opportunity to the Sociology major, at Baker University, to apply the knowledge, skills, and perspectives learned in study of the discipline....
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Edward L. Kain
Technique 9: Reliability and Validity
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Teaching and Learning in Sociology
Resource Type(s):
Class Activity
Class Level(s):
College 200
Abstract:
Teaching Objectives/Student Learning Outcomes: To help students distinguish between reliability and validity and remember the significance of that distinction. After this in-class illustration, students should be able to define both reliability and validity, and give...
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Matt G. Mutchler
The Sociology of AIDS
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Medical Sociology
Resource Type(s):
Syllabus
Class Level(s):
College 100
Abstract:
This course is inspired by the fact that, despite our wishes, the AIDS crisis is not over. As with many social problems, it is our belief that sociologically grounded analyses of AIDS can lead to deeper understandings of how we might better respond to the social...
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Paula Nesbitt
Gender, Sexuality, and Religion
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Religion
Resource Type(s):
Syllabus
Class Level(s):
College 300
Abstract:
This seminar will explore of gender the relationship, sexuality, and religion by examining how they interplay across diverse historical, contemporary, and cross-cultural contexts. Part One of the seminar will focus on theoretical issues such as gender and sexuality...
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