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Motivation to Teach Social Action:
As I've developed as an instructor, I find myself drawn more and more to engaging my students in practicing what abolitionist organizer Mariame Kaba calls the discipline of hope. I've been trying to figure out how to encourage my students, who are often overwhelmed with the state of the world when they learn sociological structural analysis, into developing their critical capacities for hope and fostering their political imaginations by giving them concrete tools to enact change in their worlds. I would love to formalize this into the curricular aspects of my courses. Learning from this course development program would be incredibly beneficial to that process!
Course Description:
Intended for students who wish to look at American society through the eyes of the sociologist. Included in the course is the sociological view of American social structure in terms of power and patterns of inequality, the legal system, ethnic and cultural pluralism, social mobility, and urban problems. Sociological issues are considered within the context of the developments of society throughout U.S. history.
Taught By:
Hannah Judson
Graduate Student/Instructor of Record
Sociology
Stony Brook University
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