All Courses
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Sociology of Popular Culture
This course examines the ways that we tell ourselves stories through popular culture. We will focus largely on commercially produced popular culture in the forms of TV shows, movies, novels, music, the internet and social media. The course is driven by questions about representation and inequality and will include significant coverage of race, class, gender, sexuality, and disability.
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Teaching in Higher Ed
This course is designed to prepare new teachers and new teaching assistants for the classroom, as well to prepare graduate students to develop teaching skills for their careers, including both academic and non-academic careers. The course is really a hybrid of three courses, designated by the section: • Section 1 is a 1-credit course that is required of all new Teaching Assistants in the College of Liberal Arts. It meets the first 5 weeks of the semester (8/26-9/30) • Section 2 is a 2-credit course that builds on section 1 (for students who took it previously) and gives students the training they need to pursue the Teaching in Higher Education Certificate through the Center for the Advancement of Teaching (details on their website). It meets the last 9 weeks of the semester (10/7-12/9) • Section 3 is a 3-credit course that combines the material from sections 1 and 2. For CLA students, it substitutes for the required 1-credit course. It also prepares students to pursue the Teaching in Higher Education Certificate through the Center for the Advancement of Teaching (details on their website). It meets the entire semester (8/26-12/9)
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Social Entrepreneurship Fall 2019
Social entrepreneurship is the process of community-based collaborative change-making. It is the application of both critical thinking and critical action strategies to targeted social problems. For individuals, it is found in the movement from criticism to leadership. For communities, it is found in the claiming of self-efficacy. This course is rooted in sociology, but the readings and assignments extend from sociological analysis to social activism, community engagement, business, and art.