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May 31, 2023

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Gods and Bombs
April 26, 2010
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Jodie Hertzog
Teaching Work-Family with Hot Topic Debates
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Family
Resource Type(s):
Assignment
Class Level(s):
Graduate
Abstract:
I regularly teach a general education Marriage & Families course that enrolls between 25 (summer sessions) and 75 students (regular term). In order to engage students in exploring current issues related to family life, I started including a "hot topics"...
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Colleen Fong
SOCIOLOGY 3555: ASIAN AMERICAN FAMILY PATTERNS
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Family
Resource Type(s):
Syllabus
Class Level(s):
College 300
Abstract:
The family will be conceptualized as an adaptable and changing institution of society; a place of comfort, but also of conflict along gender and generational lines. Some of the topics will include: immigration and resettlement, transnationalism, "bachelor" families,...
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Wendy Hesford
Human Rights, Visual Rhetoric, and the Trauma of Representation
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Peace, War, World Conflict, and Conflict Resolution
Resource Type(s):
Syllabus
Class Level(s):
College 300
Abstract:
Seeing is Believing. A Lens on the World. Cinema of Conscience. These common phrases characterize the visual rhetoric and privileging of visual technologies in contemporary human rights campaigns. "Visual rhetoric" is an emergent term within communication, rhetoric,...
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Stephen C. Trainor
ARMED FORCES AND SOCIETY
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Peace, War, World Conflict, and Conflict Resolution
Resource Type(s):
Syllabus
Class Level(s):
College 200
Abstract:
Welcome to the study of Military Sociology! This course is both an introduction to the study of Sociology and the application of this knowledge to the Armed Forces. In this course, we will examine both the foundations of the social world and the military as a social...
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Susan M. Ross
Problem-Based Learning: An Exercise on Vermont’s Legalization of Civil Unions
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Family
Resource Type(s):
Essay
Class Level(s):
Graduate
Abstract:
(Originally Published in Teaching Sociology, 32: 79-93.) The majority of literature regarding problem-based learning demonstrates its usefulness as a teaching technique in the natural sciences curriculum. The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, the broad...
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Sara C. Hare
THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF A SLAVE OWNER
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Family
Resource Type(s):
Assignment
Class Level(s):
Any Level
Abstract:
I use a Last Will and Testament as a primary document to give students a first hand account of family life for slaves and slave-owners in the antebellum south. This is the Will of my great-great grandfather, filed on February 20, 1865. I explain to the class...
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Elizabeth Borland
The Sexual Double Standard
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Sex and Gender
Resource Type(s):
Class Activity
Class Level(s):
College 300
Abstract:
This simple exercise introduces the concept of the sexual double standard, and dramatically shows the power of labels and language in shaping behavior. The instructor conducts a brainstorming session about labels and then moderates discussion about the resulting chart.
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Mathew Ilten
SOCI 308 Global Peace and Conflict
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Peace, War, World Conflict, and Conflict Resolution
Resource Type(s):
Syllabus
Class Level(s):
College 300
Abstract:
Until about fourteen years ago, the nuclear threat and the Cold War defined much of the consciousness of thoughtful people about war and possibilities of peace in the world. Likewise, global geopolitics were largely a function of this stand off. From superpower...
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Sheila L. Steinberg
Immigration and the Southwest
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Latina/o Sociology
Resource Type(s):
Syllabus
Class Level(s):
College 300
Abstract:
This class focuses upon immigration in the Southwestern United States. Students who take this class will be introduced to the various issues associated with Mexican-American immigration into the American Southwest. Specific issues that will be addressed included:...
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