The core of this seminar will be the great sequences of English …
The core of this seminar will be the great sequences of English love sonnets written by William Shakespeare, Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, and Mary Wroth. These poems cover an enormous amount of aesthetic and psychological ground: ranging from the utterly subjective to the entirely public or conventional, from licit to forbidden desires, they might also serve as a manual of experimentation with the resources of sound, rhythm, and figuration in poetry. Around these sequences, we will develop several other contexts, using both Renaissance texts and modern accounts: the Petrarchan literary tradition (poems by Francis Petrarch and Sir Thomas Wyatt); the social, political, and ethical uses of love poetry (seduction, getting famous, influencing policy, elevating morals, compensating for failure); other accounts of ideal masculinity and femininity (conduct manuals, theories of gender and anatomy); and the other limits of the late sixteenth century vogue for love poetry: narrative poems, pornographic poems, poems that don’t work.
Is marriage a patriarchal institution? Much feminist scholarship has characterized it that …
Is marriage a patriarchal institution? Much feminist scholarship has characterized it that way, but now in the context of the recent Massachusetts Supreme Court decision legalizing gay marriage, the meaning of marriage itself demands serious re-examination. This course will discuss history, literature, film, and legal scholarship, making use of cross-cultural, sociological, anthropological, and many other theoretical approaches to the marriage question from 1630 to the present. As it turns out, sex, marriage, and the family have never been stable institutions; to the contrary, they have continued to function as flash points for the very social and cultural questions that are central to gender studies scholarship.
This course focuses on families with members who are substance abusers, and …
This course focuses on families with members who are substance abusers, and the ways in which these families function. The course explores the methods and resources available for helping such families.
Successful Aging Word Count: 64519 (Note: This resource's metadata has been created …
Successful Aging
Word Count: 64519
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A Good Time for the Truth explores race and intersectionality in Minnesota. Published …
A Good Time for the Truth explores race and intersectionality in Minnesota. Published in 2016, it experienced a resurgence after the murder of George Floyd. The authors, all from Minnesota, write personal memoirs about how race in Minnesota has affected their lives. The book provides a lot of great material for freshman composition courses. Plus, it is, quite simply, a book that everyone must read.
Training for Preventing and Responding to Sexual Violence in B.C. Post-Secondary Institutions …
Training for Preventing and Responding to Sexual Violence in B.C. Post-Secondary Institutions
Short Description: A workshop and facilitation guide to support B.C. post-secondary institutions to prevent and respond to sexual violence and misconduct. Supporting Survivors is a 90 minute workshop for all members of the campus community: students, faculty, administrators, and staff. This training helps learners respond supportively and effectively to disclosures of sexual violence. It includes a discussion of available supports and resources, the differences between disclosing and reporting, and opportunities to practice skills for responding to disclosures. Uses the Listen, Believe, Support model. (The slide deck that accompanies this resource can be downloaded from the Introduction).
Long Description: A workshop and facilitation guide to support B.C. post-secondary institutions to prevent and respond to sexual violence and misconduct. Supporting Survivors is a 90 minute workshop for all members of the campus community: students, faculty, administrators, and staff. This training helps learners respond supportively and effectively to disclosures of sexual violence. It includes a discussion of available supports and resources, the differences between disclosing and reporting, and opportunities to practice skills for responding to disclosures. Uses the Listen, Believe, Support model. (The slide deck that accompanies this resource can be downloaded from the Introduction).
Word Count: 20212
ISBN: 978-1-77420-108-4
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This course explores the application of environmental and economic development planning, policy …
This course explores the application of environmental and economic development planning, policy and management approaches to urban neighborhood community development. Through an applied service learning approach, the course requires students to prepare a sustainable development plan for a community-based non-profit organization. Through this client-based planning project, students will have the opportunity to test how sustainable development concepts and different economic and environmental planning approaches can be applied to advance specific community goals within the constraints of specific neighborhoods and community organizations.
This is an eight-week syllabus for upper-undergraduate and postgraduate students. It aims …
This is an eight-week syllabus for upper-undergraduate and postgraduate students. It aims to give students an advanced grounding in the political sociology of gender and violence, exploring how gender-based violence operates within the intersecting systems of heteropatriarchy and colonial racial capitalism and engaging in critical conversations about how initiatives to end gender-based violence can dismantle oppressive systems rather than strengthening them.
The resource consists of a reading list, discussion prompts for teaching sessions and multimedia links, in PDF format. If you use the syllabus and would like me to do a guest session with your students (perhaps via Zoom) then do contact me at alison.phipps@newcastle.ac.uk. I'd love to chat with them!
This syllabus is for a 200 level Sociology of Mass Media and Popular …
This syllabus is for a 200 level Sociology of Mass Media and Popular Culture course, that uses a combination of open-access and library licensed material. The course explores two of the most transformational and interconnected social institutions in contemporary society, mass media and popular culture. Material is included to analyze the social impact of music, film, television, social media, gaming, sport and related topics. The material also includes and annotated list of additional resournces and readings to help professors adapt this course to their own needs.
Symbolic interactionism (SI) is a sociological perspective that developed in the United …
Symbolic interactionism (SI) is a sociological perspective that developed in the United States around the middle of the twentieth century. Among other characteristics, theories that bear the hallmark of the symbolic interactionist perspective typically devote attention to micro-level social dynamics and the micropolitics of everyday interaction. Whereas other types of sociological theory might attempt to explain how organizations, institutions, or even nations are constituted and maintained, those who adopt a SI approach tend to focus on how interactions between individuals and groups either succeed or fail. In particular, the SI perspective emphasizes the significance of symbols, both agreed upon and contested, and how those symbols play a role in accomplishing routine interactions. Scroll down to explore just a handful of the resources offered on The Sociological Cinema which are related to this highly influential perspective in sociology.
What exactly is culture? This week we’re going to try to answer …
What exactly is culture? This week we’re going to try to answer that, and explain the difference between material and non-material culture. We’ll look at three things that make up culture: symbols, values and beliefs, and norms. We’ll explore Sapir-Whorf hypothesis (and some of its problems) and how language influences culture. Finally, we’ll talk about the three types of norms – folkways, mores, and taboos – which govern our daily life.
This course treats public-sector policies, programs, and projects that attempt to increase …
This course treats public-sector policies, programs, and projects that attempt to increase employment through development-promoting measures in the economic realm, through support and regulation. It discusses the types of initiatives, tasks, and environments that are most conducive to equitable outcomes, and emphasizes throughout the understandings gained about why certain initiatives work and others don’t.
Enquêtes sur la population, les activités économiques, la scolarisation et la santé …
Enquêtes sur la population, les activités économiques, la scolarisation et la santé de la reproduction
Long Description: Comment les universités africaines peuvent-elles contribuer à la mise en place de systèmes d’information qui offrent aux gestionnaires locaux des outils leur permettant de soutenir leur plan de développement, de prendre des décisions statistiquement motivées et de procéder au suivi-évaluation des actions mises en œuvre? À travers une vingtaine de contributions, ce livre aborde les problématiques de la dynamique de la population et des familles, des activités économiques, de la scolarisation et de la santé de la reproduction des adolescents, adolescentes et jeunes de l’arrondissement de Tchaourou, au centre du Bénin. Au-delà de ces problématiques, les auteurs mettent en exergue l’expérience de l’École Nationale de la Statistique, de la Planification et de la Démographie (ENSPD) de l’Université de Parakou (Bénin) qui s’investit depuis quelques années à contribuer à la formation et au renforcement des capacités des communes béninoises en ressources humaines spécifiques, puis à mettre progressivement en place un système de production de données statistiques locales fiables et utilisables pour la prise de décisions éclairées.
Word Count: 101107
ISBN: 978-2-924661-44-4
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This case study is retrieved from the open book Open Data as …
This case study is retrieved from the open book Open Data as Open Educational Resources. Case studies of emerging practice.
Course description:
Metrics and measurement are important strategic tools for understanding the world around us. To take advantage of the possibilities they offer, however, one needs the ability to gather, work with, and analyse datasets, both big and small. This is why metrics and measurement feature in the seminar course Technology and Evolving Forms of Publishing, and why data analysis was a project option for the Technology Project course in Simon Fraser University’s Master of Publishing Program.
The assignment:
“Data Analysis with Google Refine and APIs": Pick a dataset and an API of your choice (Twitter, VPL, Biblioshare, CrossRef, etc.) and combine them using Google Refine. Clean and manipulate your data for analysis. The complexity/messiness of your data will be taken into account”.
This course explores the diverse ways that people teach and learn—in different …
This course explores the diverse ways that people teach and learn—in different countries, in different disciplines, and in different subcultures. We will discuss how theories of learning can be applied to a variety of hands-on, in-class learning activities. We compare schooling to other forms of knowledge transmission from initiation and apprenticeship to recent innovations in online education such as MOOCs. Students will employ a range of qualitative methods in conducting original research on topics of their choice.
This lesson plan outlines a set of interactive exercises designed for one …
This lesson plan outlines a set of interactive exercises designed for one 50 minute tutorial in a first year introductory sociology course. Students are introduced to Mills’ The Sociological Imagination (1959) and participate in a close reading activity. The class then applies the sociological imagination to research reports on urban loneliness to explore how this seemingly private trouble is also a public issue with social roots and social outcomes. The lesson plan includes activity steps and timing, background information, and handouts and is ideal for a teaching assistant or first time instructor. This lesson plan has also been published in the ASA Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology.
This course centers on the changing relationships between men, women, and technology …
This course centers on the changing relationships between men, women, and technology in American history. Topics include theories of gender, technologies of production and consumption, the gendering of public and private space, men’s and women’s roles in science and technology, the effects of industrialization on sexual divisions of labor, gender and identity at home and at work.
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