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That’s a good start, but to be transformative, nationally, content should be representative and include African American studies; Asian American studies; Latinx studies; Native American Studies; women, gender and sexuality studies; and sociology and other social sciences across the K-12 curriculum.
Neither is Natasha Warikoo, a sociology professor at Tufts University and the author of The Diversity Bargain. “I “Colleges are kind of in a bind about this,” Richard Kahlenberg, author of Affirmative Action for the Rich: Legacy Preferences for College Admissions, and a senior fellow at the Century Foundation, told me. Progress has been slow.
We begin, meta-theoretically and conceptually, by building on the practice turn in sociology and political science. At EUI, he offers seminars on international relations theory, international institutions, qualitative methods, and philosophies of social science.
While the examples are primarily drawn from international relations and comparative politics, the methods we discuss are applicable to all the subfields of political science, to sociology, economics, history, business studies, public policy, and many other fields.
I became interested in teaching when I was an undergraduate, through the experience of giving talks to my Honours class and leading small seminars – I found that I enjoyed explaining concepts and research to others. It has a particular focus on the school system here in Scotland, but most of the points are relevant to other settings too.
She sat in the front row for the sociology and biology seminars, but couldn’t concentrate in a room with more than 30 classmates. She felt more comfortable at the local university, a diverse school with a sizable black population, but she found UNO’s larger classes overwhelming.
Robert Cassanello at the University of Central Florida in Orlando — one of the nation’s largest campuses with 70,000 students — warned in red ink on the syllabus for his graduate seminar on the Civil Rights Movement (as for all courses he teaches) that he “will expose you to content that does not comply with and will violate” anti-DEI laws.
Both men and women complain that it’s harder to get A’s in college science and math classes than in, say, sociology and history. And they’re right. But it turns out that women are suffering a much larger “grade penalty” in the sciences than men are. “But I’m afraid that it is.”.
She’s a sociology professor at the University of Virginia and coauthor of the book Academically Adrift. Amherst enrolls about 1,900 students and offers more than 850 courses, many of them small seminars. Josipa Roksa: Students are not spending adequate time on academics and academic pursuits. Kirk: That’s Josipa Roksa.
So too could the Supreme Court’s affirmative action ban , said Natasha Warikoo, a professor of sociology at Tufts University: By potentially reducing overall diversity on campuses, the court’s decision adds to the pressure on institutions to ensure that students from different backgrounds have meaningful interactions.
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