{"id":36,"date":"2009-01-23T14:40:18","date_gmt":"2009-01-23T19:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/?p=36"},"modified":"2020-02-11T20:29:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T01:29:00","slug":"course-sociological-perspectives-on-race-class-and-gender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/2009\/01\/23\/course-sociological-perspectives-on-race-class-and-gender\/","title":{"rendered":"course: sociological perspectives on race, class, and gender"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"downloadLinkBox\">\n<h4>Download<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"pdf-file\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/files\/2009\/01\/raceclassgendersyllabus.pdf\">Race Class Gender Syllabus<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"pdf-file\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/files\/2009\/01\/case-study.pdf\">Case Study<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesocietypages.org\">Contexts Magazine<\/a> graduate editorial board member Shannon Golden has offered a syllabus and in-class exercise to our readers for a course addressing &#8216;Sociological Perspectives on Race, Class, and Gender.&#8217; The materials were developed as part of a course in the Sociology of Higher Education offered by Professor Ron Aminzade in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The syllabus:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>For a semester-length course meeting twice weekly<\/li>\n<li>Assignments include weekly media reaction papers as well as two longer papers, designed to be &#8216;writing-intensive&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>The section devoted to &#8216;Course Dialogue&#8217; provides a great example of how to encourage students to engage in respectful debate about controversial issues. &nbsp;&#8211; <em>A must-read for all first-time instructors<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>In-class exercise:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Title: &#8216;A White African-American?&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>Written scenario about whether a student typically identified as &#8216;White&#8217; can be considered for an academic award aimed at recognizing accomplishments of African-American students<\/li>\n<li>Provides discussion questions to get students talking about the scenario<\/li>\n<li>Engages students in small group discussion<\/li>\n<li>Based on an actual event, with some details modified<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Download Race Class Gender Syllabus Case Study Contexts Magazine graduate editorial board member Shannon Golden has offered a syllabus and in-class exercise to our readers for a course addressing &#8216;Sociological Perspectives on Race, Class, and Gender.&#8217; The materials were developed as part of a course in the Sociology of Higher Education offered by Professor Ron [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127413,127403],"tags":[29,55,837,14],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syllabi-teaching-resources","category-teaching-resources","tag-class","tag-gender","tag-materials","tag-race"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2589,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions\/2589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}