2004 Seminars & Courses
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This educational component provides opportunities for attendees to get in-depth training in special subject areas. These day-long intensive sessions are led by expert faculty who have prepared a comprehensive curriculum to engage participants on all levels. Registrants will receive certificates documenting their participation and completion of these courses.
All Courses are held on August 13, prior to the first full day of program sessions. Attendance limits and fees are noted below, and prepaid registration is required. Fees are non-refundable after July 15.
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Human Research Protections in Sociology and the Social Sciences (co-sponsored by the Social and Behavioral Sciences Working Group on Human Research Protections)
Friday, August 13, 8:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Fee: $95 (includes lunch)
Attendance Limit: 40
Co-organizers: Felice J. Levine, Chair, Social and Behavioral Sciences Working Group on Human Research Protections, and American Educational Research Association; and Richard T. Campbell, University of Illinois, Chicago
Faculty: Virginia Cain, Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research, National Institutes of Health
Richard T. Campbell, University of Illinois, Chicago
Karen A. Hegtvedt, Emory University
Felice J. Levine, American Educational Research Association
Elaine Wethington, Cornell University
This course addresses human research protection issues in the design, implementation, and review of research. It provides investigators with a richer understanding of key ethical concepts and the tools for assessing best ethical practices in the context of social science research. It also offers guidance on the preparation of protocols and effective communication with Institutional Review Boards (IRBs). The course is compromised of three major units: understanding key concepts and ethical guidance in human subjects research, putting human research protections into practice in social science research, and comprehending the IRB process and the role of review. Participants will examine federal regulations and their underlying principles; ethical standards provided by social and behavioral science societies (e.g., ASA’s code of ethics); and core concepts in human subjects protection with particular attention to research in the social sciences. Participants will receive hands-on training in a mock IRB session as they review and discuss case studies that raise relevant issues in human subjects protection. Emphasis will be placed on addressing issues and topics of concern to participants.
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Community Based Research
Friday, August 13, 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon; 1:00-3:00 p.m.
Fee: $50
Attendance Limit: 30
Leaders: Kerry Strand, Hood College; and Sam Marullo, Georgetown University
Community-based research (CBR) is an innovative and increasingly popular means to unite the three traditional academic missions of teaching, research, and service. This course provides participants with clear-cut guidelines for how to carry out this work—as sociological research and as pedagogy—along with rich descriptions of engaged scholarship in action. Using both didactic and interactive strategies, we will:
Provide an overview of community-based research, including its origins, iterations, and basic features that distinguish it in important ways from conventional sociological research and from more conventional forms of community-based pedagogies; and
Share a wide-range of concrete guidelines and “best practices” for integrating CBR into our teaching and research in ways that will enrich student learning, deepen community partnerships, support faculty roles and rewards, and enhance the capacity of our institutions to address social problems.meet the learning goals of basic sociology courses.
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Teaching an AP-level Course (sponsored by the ASA Task Force on the Development of an AP Course in Sociology)
Friday, August 13, 9:00 a.m. 12:00 noon; 1:00-4:00 p.m.
Fee: $50
Attendance Limit: 30
Leader: Caroline Persell, New York University
This course is designed for current or future teachers of regular, honors, advanced, or AP-type sociology courses in high schools and for teachers of Introduction to Sociology courses in colleges and universities. It will focus on some of the key understandings students should gain as a result of studying sociology and explore ways of teaching those insights, including how a sociological perspective differs from that of other social sciences and humanities, the evidence needed to infer causality, the probabilistic and contingent nature of sociological knowledge, the power of demography, what sociologists do, how sociologists think about culture, socialization, social organization, deviance and conformity, social inequalities by class,race and gender, social institutions, and social change. The emphasis will be on active forms of learning-simulations, exercises, and research activities- although films and websites will be mentioned where relevant. Participants in the course will leave with examples of exercises they can use in teaching sociology in high school or college courses, with information about web-based resources, and with some experience accessing social science data that are publicly available.
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The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Friday, August 13, 9:00 a.m.– 12:00 noon, 1:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Fee: $50
Attendance Limit: 30
Leader: Kathleen McKinney, Illinois State University
This six-hour, hands-on course will introduce participants to the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) in higher education generally and sociology, more specifically. Participants will be provided with materials and information related to conceptualizing a teaching-learning problem to be studied, choosing appropriate methodologies, considering ethical issues, finding presentation and publication outlets, documenting SoTL work, and applying what is learned to improve teaching and learning. Opportunities will be provided for questions, and to work on and discuss participant ideas for SoTL projects.
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