Class Notes

Voter Education in the Classroom

Having seen how many students are unaware of how to register to vote, the mechanics of voting, and why voting … Read More

Community-Engaged Learning as a Triple Win

For tenure track faculty with research intensive roles, balancing research and teaching can be difficult. Meanwhile, students are eager to … Read More

Teaching the Hidden Curriculum

When I first started teaching, in the Fall of 2022, I was surprised by how often things that seemed obvious … Read More

Calling Elected Officials

Sociology courses frequently focus on helping students understand the severity of our social problems. We can do even better by … Read More

Crafting Effective Feedback

One of the main tasks we have as instructors and teaching assistants is reading students’ writing and assisting them in … Read More

Pop Culture Fridays

My first semester of teaching Introductory Sociology was to a class of 120 students, and I had just completed my … Read More

Small-Scale CBL: Establishing Trust and Equity in Benefits

In a classic piece on community-based learning (CBL) in sociology, Mooney and Edwards define CBL as a broad term … Read More

Rethinking Service-learning to be More Public and Creative

In higher education, instructors are encouraged to incorporate service-learning into their curricula— activities that provide the chance for students to … Read More

Ungrading: Reassessing Assessment

According to Jesse Stommel (2021), “’Ungrading’ means raising an eyebrow at grades as a systemic practice, distinct from simply … Read More

Comics and the Ethnographic Sensibility

Students of ethnography are often encouraged to develop an ethnographic sensibility, or an attunement to the material and social relations … Read More