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Lowney, Kathleen S.; Price, Anne M.; Gonzalez Guittar, Stephanie – Teaching Sociology, 2017
Given that so many college students take Introduction to Sociology or Social Problems or both, we wondered about the amount of content overlap in these courses. We designed a study that used content analysis of syllabi from these courses in order to measure the amount of convergence between the two classes. In our sample, nearly 70 percent of the…
Descriptors: College Students, Sociology, Introductory Courses, Social Problems
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Macheski, Ginger E.; Buhrmann, Jan; Lowney, Kathleen S.; Bush, Melanie E. L. – Teaching Sociology, 2008
Participants in the 2007 American Sociological Association teaching workshop, "Innovative Teaching Practices for Difficult Subjects," shared concerns about teaching statistics, research methods, and theory. Strategies for addressing these concerns center on building a community of learners by creating three processes throughout the course: 1) an…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Workshops, Sociology, Teaching Methods