Syllabus

From Out of the Margins of History: Infusing African American Culture into the African American History Syllabus

2022-07-08T17:51:45+00:00

This article will provide the context and application of African-centered concepts into an undergraduate course entitled “The African American Experience.” African American history and culture had been relegated to the margins of American history for decades when in fact without African American history, the true history of America could not be told. The syllabus described in this work uses African American phenomena as the basis of understanding the entire course. Every level including the projects, Course Outline, and instructions affirm African and African American principles. Including these principles directly into the course serves not only to teach students additional information, but places the culture out of its often-subordinated place in the larger America. This course syllabus challenges the argument that African and African American phenomena have no place in academia. It takes us from a place only a few decades ago where there were no African American History courses on college campuses to today when the history can be recognized and placed in its rightful position in the academic sphere.

Transnational Masculinities Syllabus

2021-05-06T21:33:42+00:00

Feminist studies of masculinity are integrative, interdisciplinary, and transnational. An in-depth examination of the relational nature of masculinity and how hegemonic masculinity is produced through institutions like sports, media, military, family, religion, and nationhood. Central to analysis will be how a web of masculinities produces different outcomes for men based on their race, age, class, sexuality, ability, and positioning within transnational politics and economies.

First-Year Seminar (FYS) - Getting Schooled: The Promises and Problems of College in America

2021-09-15T17:33:53+00:00

This course takes several unique approaches to the first-year seminar—a staple course in the curriculum at many liberal arts-focused institutions. FYS courses at this institution, as at many others, are offered in a small, face-to-face format twice per week for new first-year or transfer students, and they provide an entree into engaged forms of learning grounded in reading, discussing, and writing about ideas. In this FYS course, two elements introduce novel and effective strategies. First, the course content focuses on social problems related to higher education, particularly ongoing controversies around a) the purpose of higher education; b) inequity in access to higher education; and c) teaching and curricula in college. By focusing on a topic that is both familiar to students but also new as a subject of scholarly analysis, the course connects students’ personal experiences to pressing public questions about higher education, situating their lives and challenges within interdisciplinary frameworks, including historical, political, economic, philosophical, and sociological lenses. It also introduces new forms of multi-media writing through social annotation activities and a podcast production assignment linked to a written research paper. As such, it offers several approaches to the first-year seminar course that have proved especially rich for students.

Environmental Sustainability in Sport

2021-08-05T17:04:33+00:00

This syllabus is for a course focused on environmental sustainability in the sport industry. Most likely this course would be taught as an elective course within a sport management or sport administration program, along with other traditional management courses focused on marketing, communications, ethics, or finance. The course is intended for use in sport management programs at the graduate or undergraduate level. As the syllabus is presented below, it would be for graduate students. However, it would be possible with modification to adjust the course for use at the undergraduate level. The purpose of the course is to help students develop a fundamental understanding of environmental sustainability in sport and ways sport managers can operate within the sport industry in an environmentally sustainable way.

How to be Single and Happy Syllabus

2021-04-02T17:14:40+00:00

This article describes a course that shows how students can learn how to thrive as singles in a world where less people are getting married yet the stigma against singlehood remains.

The Photo Lottery

2020-09-04T00:28:36+00:00

Nothing can test a student’s speaking ability more than having them incorporate an image of a chicken while they try to sell their audience calculator. Often individuals are hard-pressed to prepare quality presentations in limited time frames. Thus, it is essential that students learn how to prepare organized and engaging speeches while incorporating visuals in order to be more competitive as they enter the workplace.

“The Photo Lottery” classroom activity uses random student selected visual aids to help them learn and incorporate images in impromptu speaking. Not only does the activity sharpen students’ speaking abilities, it also improves their critical thinking and audience adaptation skills. This flexible activity is student-driven and allows participants to shape the learning outcomes. “The Photo Lottery” pushes students to make quick decisions in order to persuade their audience. It is a fun activity to get students more comfortable speaking in the classroom!

When Audre Met Christine

2021-08-05T16:57:36+00:00

In an assignment in a Humanities/Great Books course, students were guided to begin making more nuanced connections between assigned texts. They learned to develop skills in academic debate beyond looking for binary winners and losers, and instead to begin looking for generative and consensus readings.