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Nurturing Scholarship and Teaching: Transforming Undergraduate Education

Explore the role of top sociology departments in innovating teaching practices, challenging conventional wisdom, and integrating scholarship into undergraduate curricula. Discover how departments like Arizona, UNC, and Duke have taken leadership to enhance graduate and undergraduate education through active research and academic inquiry.

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Nurturing Scholarship and Teaching: Transforming Undergraduate Education

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  1. Balancing Scholarship & Teaching:A Modest ProposalLee ClarkeDepartment of SociologyRutgers Universityleeclarke.com

  2. Undergraduate Task Force Report: Fundamental Principle: “Undergraduate education at Rutgers should be organized around academic inquiry grounded in active research…”

  3. Invisible teachers

  4. Some top sociology departments, required • Arizona – “Teaching Practicum” • UNC – “Seminar on the Teaching of Sociology” • Northwestern – “College Teaching” • NYU – “Sociology Of Teaching And Learning” • Duke – part of 2 semester course on professional issues

  5. What have those departments done? • Faced the major contradiction • Taken ownership of responsibilities to graduate and undergraduate students • Thumbed their noses at conventional wisdom

  6. What is to be done? • Courses on scholarship/teaching…at the departmental level • Leadership & institutional support for “the cause” • Rutgers Normal?

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