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May 31, 2023

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Kathleen M. O’Neil
Technique 6: Confidence Intervals for Proportions, Survey Data, Media Representation of Survey Research
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Teaching and Learning in Sociology
Resource Type(s):
Class Activity
Abstract:
Teaching Objectives/Student Learning Outcomes: To practice calculating confidence intervals for proportions using "real" data reported in the news; and to learn to read news reports of survey data critically.
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Geoffrey Moss
Sociology of Higher Education
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Education
Resource Type(s):
Syllabus
Class Level(s):
College 300
Abstract:
This course will enable students to utilize the disciplinary tools of Sociology (e.g. the concepts of Social Structure, Social Stratification, Bureaucracy, Intersecting Systems of Race, Class, and Gender, The Sociological Imagination) to analyze a social institution...
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Brenda J. Forster
SOC 304 Majority-Minority Relations
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Racial and Ethnic Relations
Resource Type(s):
Syllabus
Class Level(s):
College 300
Abstract:
An analysis of problems of individual and collective contact between advantaged and disadvantaged groups. Historical and contemporary societal reactions to minorities are examined. Special attention is given to issues of social justice. The People, Power, Politics...
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Alfons Deeken
Philosophy of Death/Death Education
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Aging/Social Gerontology
Resource Type(s):
Syllabus
Class Level(s):
College 200
Abstract:
Death education in sociology should provide students with an opportunity to gain a more scholarly understanding of the social processes involved in dying and death. The sociology of dying and death can analyze the processes and institutional responses to dying and...
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Theodore C. Wagenaar
First-Day Writing Assignment
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Capstone Courses
Resource Type(s):
Assignment
Class Level(s):
College 400
Abstract:
This assignment can and has been used as an assessment mechanism.
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Meredith M. Redlin
Soc 240: Introduction to Rural America
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Teaching and Learning in Sociology
Resource Type(s):
Class Activity
Class Level(s):
College 200
Abstract:
The following materials illustrate an exercise of simplified recreation of study data. The text used as the basis for this exercise is Children of the Land: Adversity and Success in Rural America, by Glen H. Elder, Jr. and Rand D. Conger (University of Chicago...
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Janet Myers
Understanding the Reaction of Communities of Color to HIV/AIDS
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Medical Sociology
Resource Type(s):
Lecture
Class Level(s):
College 300
Abstract:
The goals of this lecture are to: - To illustrate the disproportionate impact of HIV infection on communities of color, and in particular on African American and Latino communities. - To explore the factors influencing the reaction of communities of color to...
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Keith A. Roberts
Teaching Sociology of Religion: Some Active Learning Strategies
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Religion
Resource Type(s):
Class Activity
Class Level(s):
Graduate
Abstract:
Discusses a variety of strategies that are useful for teaching about the sociology of religion .
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Gerry R. Cox
The First Day of Class
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Aging/Social Gerontology
Resource Type(s):
Essay
Class Level(s):
Any Level
Abstract:
The first day of class is both challenging and frightening. It is a unique day for the instructor and the students. Each of us is facing the unknown and will be greatly influenced by the dynamics of the first day of class. How effective or ineffective the...
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Julie A. Dowling
Introduction to Latina/Latino Studies, LLS 100
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Latina/o Sociology
Resource Type(s):
Syllabus
Class Level(s):
College 100
Abstract:
Course Description: The goal of this course is to give an overview of Latino populations in the U.S., with particular attention to the experiences of persons of Mexican, Puerto Rican, and Cuban origin. We will be exploring the politics of conquest and immigration...
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