In this class activity, students will learn qualitative content analysis using the free and open-source Taguette software. Students analyze Alicia Garza’s (2014) “A Herstory of Black Lives Matter” and an Associated Press newspaper article (2015) on Black Lives...

This activity provides students with an opportunity to review redlining maps and consider the historical and present day impacts that this practice has had. Students select a city of their choice and access digitized copies of redlining maps through a publicly...

This resource, overall, adapts anti-prejudice tenets to enhance discussion board assessments. Step-by-step, the resource mimics Gordon Allport's contact hypothesis tenets to develop an interactive, problem-solving approach to discussion board-based assessments. A...

This assignment is intended to help students critically examine media – specifically music videos – for the gendered messages contained therein. This goal is achieved through analysis of currently popular music videos, via a process adapted from Sut Jhally’s...

In the current activity, students use a jigsaw cooperative learning strategy to learn about diverging perspectives related a contested illness scenario. Contested illnesses are those that are somewhat disputed in the medical community or do not have a clear...

The course covers sociological research methods broadly and is designed for Sociology majors or minors as a required core course. This course was designed as part of a two-step course for an upper division (300 level) research methods survey course that led into...

This assignment serves as the final project for Introduction to Sociology—asking students to practice the sociological imagination, apply theoretical paradigms, read and summarize sociological research, describe the process of socialization, and examine the impact...

The purpose of this assignment is to use Gwen E. Kirby’s work of speculative fiction “A Few Normal Things That Happen a Lot” to teach about sexual victimization and related concepts. Kirby’s short story vividly details the subtle and overt “normal” sexism and...

Systems of power and inequality permeate nearly all aspects of society. Students of sociology should practice recognizing these systems and considering how power is wielded at different levels. Through this lesson, students will learn how power operates within the...

Students engage in an in-class learning experience where they work through a structured note taking activity that allows them to be introduced, learn, apply, and review course material related to Erving Goffman and Dramaturgy. The general idea is that students are...