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May 31, 2023

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Francis T. Cullen
EARLY INTERVENTION IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE (ADVANCED COURSE)
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Criminology/Delinquency
Resource Type(s):
Syllabus
Class Level(s):
College 400
Abstract:
This course examines the early origins of criminality, the programs demonstrated to be effective in intervening with youngsters at risk for or involved in criminal behavior, and the prospects for early intervention as a correctional policy agenda.
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William L. Smith
Rationale for Why and How We Teach our Capstone/Senior Seminar
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Capstone Courses
Resource Type(s):
Syllabus
Class Level(s):
College 400
Abstract:
A seminar for senior sociology majors, which endeavors to crystallize the student’s knowledge, skills, and appreciation of the discipline. This is a capstone course designed to assist students in synthesizing material from other sociology courses, particularly theory...
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Nancy Fischer
Technique 45: Social Control, Gender/Status Control through Fashion
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: As a result of an in-class presentation of late 1800s/early 1900s women’s fashion, students will recognize the coercive nature of fashion design by considering the probability of achieving the desired look by comparing...
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Caroline Hodges Persell
Education and Society
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Education
Resource Type(s):
Syllabus
Class Level(s):
College 400
Abstract:
This course begins by examining a variety of realms in which education occurs, and then rapidly zeros in on organized educational forms within the social institution of education. It considers what is distinctive about how sociologists analyze education compared to...
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Jason D. Boardman
SOCY 5161: TOPICS IN STRATIFICATION - THE SOCIAL DEMOGRAPHY OF RACE AND ETHNICITY
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Racial and Ethnic Relations
Resource Type(s):
Syllabus
Class Level(s):
Graduate
Abstract:
The purposes of this class are two-fold. The primary goal of this course is to introduce students to relevant and timely research within sociological and social demographic research on race and ethnicity. Specific areas will include the following:...
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Brian P. Kapitulik
Critical Teaching in a Social Problems Course: Structure, Process and Reflections
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Teaching and Learning in Sociology
Resource Type(s):
Essay
Class Level(s):
Any Level
Abstract:
Based on a larger case study (Kapitulik, 2000), this essay offers one example of teaching sociology from a critical perspective. As a practice in critical pedagogy, this course was designed by Linda,1 my co-teacher, and me to be critical in both content and process....
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Matthew Oware
Senior Seminar S410
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Capstone Courses
Resource Type(s):
Syllabus
Class Level(s):
College 400
Abstract:
This course will explore the creation and maintenance of what has become one of the most divisive and contentious words in the English language: race. We will use a comparative approach, examining racial and ethnic identity construction in the United States and other...
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Brian Starks
Technique 58: The American Dream, Ideology, Religion and Inequality
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 brainstorm students’ basic conception of the American Dream and use this as a basis for considering Jennifer Hochschild’s four tenets of the American Dream; to discuss Weber’s notion of the Protestant Ethic and the...
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Mary H Metz
SOCIOLOGY OF TEACHING
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Education
Resource Type(s):
Syllabus
Class Level(s):
Graduate
Abstract:
In this course we will consider several overlapping perspectives through which to understand teachers and their work. We will also look at how public and researchers’ images of teaching and of teachers have shifted over the last thirty years. We will look at teaching...
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Jason D. Boardman
SOCY 3015: SOCIOLOGY OF RACE AND ETHNICITY
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Racial and Ethnic Relations
Resource Type(s):
Syllabus
Class Level(s):
College 300
Abstract:
The primary goal of this course is to introduce students to research within sociological and social demographic research on race and ethnicity. Specific areas will include the following: conceptual/measurement issues; population size, growth, and migration; health...
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