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May 31, 2023

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Erin K. Anderson
Work and Gender
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Sexualities
Resource Type(s):
Syllabus
Class Level(s):
College 300
Abstract:
This course, SOC 394:Work and Gender, is currently offered as a 300 level special topics course in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology. In order to take courses at this level, students must have completed Introduction to Sociology and at least one other...
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Bill Winders
Teaching Title IX
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Sex and Gender
Resource Type(s):
Assignment
Class Level(s):
College 200
Abstract:
This exercise asks students to research the amount of resources and general support for women’s and men’s sports teams at their own university. Support may include money and materials allotted to teams, salaries for men and women coaches as well as for coaches of...
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Eliza K. Pavalko
S660– SOCIOLOGY OF THE LIFE COURSE
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Aging/Social Gerontology
Resource Type(s):
Syllabus
Class Level(s):
Graduate
Abstract:
A life course perspective focuses on the intersections of individual lives, social change, and social structure. It emphasizes the patterns or trajectories across individual’s lives and the way those patterns are shaped by the broader social structure and historical...
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Sue Marie Wright
AN OBSERVATIONAL PROJECT
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Children and Youth
Resource Type(s):
Assignment
Class Level(s):
College 200
Abstract:
This project requires a series of four structured, one-hour observations with children in a particular age group (e.g., infants, pre-school, grade school, etc.). You may choose the age group that you are most interested in working with, or the age that you find most...
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Leann M. Tigges, Amy Quark
Paper Assignment: Gender and Work in Rural America
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Sexualities
Resource Type(s):
Assignment
Class Level(s):
College 300
Abstract:
You can choose whatever topic interests you, as long as it addresses gender, work and rural areas in some way. Below is a list of possible topics. This is far from an exhaustive list, but rather some suggestions to get your sociological imagination working. Consider...
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Danielle Bessett
Gender in the Public Sphere
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Sex and Gender
Resource Type(s):
Assignment
Class Level(s):
College 200
Abstract:
This out of class exercise requires students to choose and attend a talk from a pre-approved list, which they are asked to summarize and assess in a written essay of five pages. Students apply a sociological critique of the uses of "gender" outside the classroom and...
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Dale Dannefer, Robin S. Patterson
THE LIFE COURSE: MIDTERM EXAMINATION SOCI 361/461 (Take home)
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Aging/Social Gerontology
Resource Type(s):
Assessment
Class Level(s):
Graduate
Abstract:
This is a compilation of teaching resources on The Life Course. The life course refers to the structure and patterning of individual lives, which are always both situated yet never reducible to the constraints of those situations. No individual can be understood...
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Walda Katz-Fishman
SOCIAL THEORY AND SOCIETY
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Sociological Practice
Resource Type(s):
Syllabus
Class Level(s):
College 100
Abstract:
The course involves interactive learning, assigned readings (required and supplementary), class lectures, discussions, essay exams and other written assignments and, on occasion, participation in forums and other interactive activities. Through these various media,...
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Francesca Degiuli
GENDER AND SOCIETY (Graduate)
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Sex and Gender
Resource Type(s):
Syllabus
Class Level(s):
College 300
Abstract:
This class will challenge the category woman by looking at women’s labor as embedded in specific historical, economic, and geographical contexts throughout the world. We will pay particular attention to the ways in which race/class/gender intersect and shape women’s...
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Sarah Jane Brubaker
Sociology 502-Contemporary Sociological Theory
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Theory
Resource Type(s):
Syllabus
Class Level(s):
Graduate
Abstract:
This course is designed to provide students will a general overview of the most influential "classical," as well as some of the better-known contemporary, sociological theories and theorists. Students should complete the course with a basic knowledge of these...
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