Our Commitment to Teaching
Our graduate students benefit in many ways from a strong departmental commitment to teaching.
- Excellent teachers and excellent teaching
- Award winning teachers
- Almost all classes under ten students
- Hands-on quantitative methods training
- Great opportunities for learning how to teach
- Teaching mentorship: an apprenticeship required of all students (without equivalent experience) before becoming instructors
- A one-semester course emphasizing participative pedagogy and the special challenges of teaching sociology
- Abundant chances for graduate students to be classroom instructors
- Annual in-class observation and feedback by more experienced instructor
- Departmental, college, and university teaching workshops
- Informal sessions to discuss teaching problems and innovations
