Activities from Faculty, Staff, and Recent Grads

• Master List
• Folder of Activities

Blogs

Visual analysis

• Sociological images
• Postsecret blog of community art
• Pictures of where children sleep
• Stories of American Community
• Example of teaching with documents

To show your students

• Everyday Sociology
• Sociology in Focus

On teaching sociology

• A blog about teaching sociology
• Sample course website from CU-Boulder
• WolfWiki on videos, activities, and strategies
• Allan G. Johnson's website (author of Gender Knot: Power, Privilege, and Difference)
• Philip N. Cohen's blog on family inequality

Films and Videoclips

Resources

• List of sociological documentaries
• The sociological cinema
• Norton Sociology youtube channel
• Public Sociology, Live!

Individual films and clips

• "The Missing Class," Bill Moyers interview with Katherine Newman
• "Living Old," UNCTV documentary
• "The Changing American Family," panel discussion
• "Rape in the Military," UNCTV documentary
• "Sex Trafficking," 5-minute NYT Op-Ed
• "A call to men," Tony Porter TEDtalk
• "The Gender Revolution: Uneven and Stalled," a mini-lecture by Paula England

Activities

Resources and activity banks

• Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (Merlot)
• ASA resources for teaching introductory courses
• ASA resources for teaching ethics throughout the curriculum
• Teaching with data
• NYT interactive maps

Pre-pared activities

• SPENT online game by Urban Ministries of Durham
• "Virtual Explorations" with web activities and responses that students can email to instructors

Select Teaching Sociology articles

• "Using Art and Architectural Slides in Sociology." 
• "A Stop Sign at the Intersection of History and Biography: Illustrating Mill's Imagination with Depression-Era Photographs." 

Content and Readings

Resources and information banks

• Child prostitution facts
• Diversity and Democracy: Civic Learning for Shared Futures
• Pollution facts
• Sociosite Social Science Information System at the University of Amsterdam
• Sound portraits oral history project

Pre-prepared readings

• Digital history
• Globalization

Teaching Philosophies and Portfolios

Resources

• Background and contexts for teaching philosophies, University of Minnesota
• Writing a teaching philosophy statement, Iowa State University

Articles and examples

• "Developing a Philosophy of Teaching Statement." 
• "Creating an Effective Teaching Philosophy and Portfolio." (activities to get you started)
• "Writing a Statement of Teaching Philosophy for the Academy Job Search." 
• Example of a teaching philosophy, NCSU graduate Shannon Davis
• Example of a teaching portfolio, NCSU graduate Sarah Nell Rusche