Sociology Teaching Resources
Activities from Faculty, Staff, and Recent Grads
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
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
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