Commitment to Teaching

• Excellent teachers and excellent teaching
  • Award winning teachers
  • Almost all classes under ten students
  • Hands-on quantitative methods training

• Great opportunities for learning how to teach
  • Teaching mentorship: an apprenticeship required of all students (without equivalent experience) before becoming instructors
  • A one-semester course emphasizing participative pedagogy and the special challenges of teaching sociology
  • Abundant chances for graduate students to be classroom instructors
  • Annual in-class observation and feedback by more experienced instructor
  • Departmental, college, and university teaching workshops
  • Informal sessions to discuss teaching problems and innovations

Prof. Ginnie Aldige discusses teaching issues with graduate student instructors of Principles of Sociology course