Courses taught (click on course titles to download syllabus)
Sociology 113 - Multicultural America This course is designed as an introduction to issues of diversity and the various ethnic and racial groups that make up a multicultural America. In order to understand what it means to live in a multicultural nation, the first third (roughly) of the class covers the basic concepts of diversity to give a common understanding of the ways that we can think about and discuss diversity in the United States. The second third of the class looks at the history of our multicultural nation; it is essential to understanding the past as many of the current issues that we confront directly relate to what happened in the past. Finally, the latter third of the class focuses on newer waves of immigration since the 1960s. These newer waves of immigration come predominantly from Asia and Latin America and are changing the ethnic and racial makeup of our society just as previous waves of immigration did at the turn of the 20
th century.
Sociology 404 - Qualitative Research Methods This course is designed as an introduction to qualitative research methods. We will be spending most of our time on participant observation and in-depth interviews. All of the students will become involved in an ongoing research project on immigration in Utah County. We will be going into the field taking fieldnotes and conducting interviews. After collecting data, we will spend time coding and analyzing that data. Overall, this process is meant to help the students to get hands-on experience conducting research using qualitative methods.
