SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS
STUDENT WORK ON DISPLAY
The above image is from the Spring 2016 USF Sociology Open House. Each student in my class, Muslims in America, designed posters for display. The posters featured original data from a research project that we completed as a class. Students collected survey data on eighty-five Muslim Americans, including in-depth interviews with seventeen respondents.
STUDENT CLASS PAPERS
Students also used the data they collected to write academic style research papers. Some of these papers employed statistical data from our survey, others used interview data, and still others found ways to combine both. After completing a rough draft, each student received detailed feedback from me, as well as a review of their work from at least one other classmate. By reading and critiquing each other's papers they were better able to understand how an instructor would approach their own work. The above image contains the titles of a handful of these papers.
SEEING SOCIOLOGY ESSAYS
When teaching Introduction to Sociology I often require my students to write and compile a collection of Seeing Sociology Essays. In these essays, students are asked to find an image that relates to a topic or concept from class and then write a brief essay in which they explore the connection between what we learn as a class and what they see in the world around them. The above image shows two such essays.