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Welcome to the Teaching Sociology for Beginners web site! Here, you will find links to the materials presented at the workshop on 15 August 2000, as well as links to other useful teaching resources available on the Internet.
The workshop was intended to be a brief introduction to the mechanics of preparing to teach for the very first time. We covered basics, including where to find ideas about how to decide what approach to take to your subject matter and how to structure your material, how to build a syllabus, conducting in-class discussions, and the different types of students you're likely to encounter.
If you have any comments, questions, or suggestions regarding the workshop or the web site, please contact any of us. (Web site suggestions will be responded to most quickly if you e-mail them to Don.)
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All three of us are graduate students at the University at Buffalo - SUNY. Between us, we have 13 years of teaching experience.
Diane R. Bessel (dbessel@acsu.buffalo.edu)
Diane is a recent recipient of the University at Buffalo's Graduate Student Excellence in Teaching Award. She has also won the UB Sociology Department Teaching Award. Diane has taught many classes, including: Introduction to Sociology; Social Research Methods; Sociology of the Family; Women, Work, and Family in the Twentieth Century; Sociology of Gender; Race and Ethnic Relations; and Sociology of Adolescence. Her areas of interest change daily, but she is focused mostly on family, social psychology (particularly social network analysis), and adolescence. She is in the throes of completing her qualifying paper, and will begin work on her dissertation this fall.
Kimberly Cattat ()
In addition to UB's Graduate Student Excellence in Teaching award, Kim has been honored with the K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders in Education Award. She has taught: Introduction to Sociology; Sociology of Punishment; Race and Ethnic Relations; Juvenile Justice; and Social Research Methods. Kim's primary areas of interest are deviance and criminology, and she is currently working on her dissertation.
Don Matteson (matteson@acsu.buffalo.edu)
Like Diane and Kim, Don won UB's Graduate Student Excellence in Teaching Award. His course preps include: Introduction to Sociology; Structure of American Society; Population Problems; Individual and Society; Social Research Methods; and Basic Social Statistics. Don's research interests lie in social demography, though he considers himself something of a compulsive generalist. This week, his dissertation involves a multi-level, national analysis of racial differences in infant mortality in the United States. That could change, though.
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Since you're most likely not here to learn about us, here are the handouts that we distributed in the workshop.
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Questions and/or comments should be directed to Don Matteson (matteson@acsu.buffalo.edu)