Sociology 5615

Sociology 5615: Teaching Sociology, Spring 2005

Course objectives

1. To promote a high standard for college teaching.
2. To increase skills in a number of specific teaching activities (e.g., organizing content, lecturing, leading discussions, managing classroom dynamics, and evaluating).
3. To provide an opportunity for you to formulate personal values, approaches, and styles of classroom instruction that can grow and be refined over your teaching careers.
4. To help you to develop a course syllabus that you can use when you teach your own class as a GPTI.
5. To create a community in which teaching is actively discussed, and to promote the idea that teaching can be a collective enterprise.
6. To help you to develop a teaching portfolio that you can use when you go on the job market.
   

*Several of these objectives are adapted from Howard Aldrich’s teaching seminar syllabus (University of North Carolina sociology department).