I have increasingly tried to implement community-based learning in my sociology courses. I would love to gain the practical/tangible skills and tools necessary to work social action into one or more of my 300-level electives, which are already designed for students to apply readings/discussions to their lives and passions related to social justice.
I have not taught social action before. The only experiences I've had that would aid my teaching social action would be my familiarity with applied social research and social movements literature.
Access to abortion/access to contraception and Plan B on college campus or in local community, participation of trans athletes in sports in local community, gender binary vs. gender neutral bathrooms, the prevalence of eating disorders on college campuses, sexual assault on college campuses, the tokenization of Black students at PWIs, police brutality in the local community, access to gender affirming care in the local community, ableist infrastructure and ADA-compliance on college campus, threat of ICE in the local community
How did you hear about opportunity
A colleague who spread the word!
Visiting Assistant Professor
bailey.troia@richmond.edu
Type of Community Engagement
Social Action
What are specific examples of social action campaigns that instructors have used in social science classrooms? What key readings and assignments aid students in their social action campaigns? How do instructors seek to protect themselves from doxxing/general threats to their jobs while implementing this social justice action-oriented pedagogy in their classrooms (especially those in temporary positions/on the tenure track)? What are the roadblocks and pitfalls instructors fall into while implementing social action campaigns in the classroom?
- Gender and sexuality
- Historical gendering and sexualization of bodies
- Normalization of certain bodies
- Gender and sexual policing
- Queer and trans experiences
- Social construction of bodily knowledge
- Inequalities related to race, class, and nation
- Community-based learning
- Social action campaigns
The course explores the historical gendering and sexualization of bodies, examining concepts of normalcy, health, and the impacts of gender and sexual policing on bodily autonomy. It emphasizes a queer feminist sociological perspective and aims to integrate community-based learning into sociology courses, focusing on social justice issues such as access to healthcare, participation of trans athletes, and the prevalence of eating disorders on college campuses.
- Course: Gender, Sexuality, and the Body
- Instructor: Bailey Troia, Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Richmond
- Focus: Gendered and sexualized bodies, health, autonomy, queer and trans experiences
- Engagement: Community-based learning, social action
- Topics: Access to abortion, trans athletes, eating disorders, police brutality, gender affirming care
- Format: In-person, 2 sessions/week, 14 weeks
Sociology / Social Sciences
