Workshops

Look to the Annual Meeting for professional development and training across research, teaching, careers, and a host of other important professional issues. From teaching challenges to research issues to career advice and beyond, the 2007 Program features a robust selection of workshops.

Workshops are open to all meeting registrants. An overview of workshop topics is listed below. Workshop schedules, leaders, and descriptions are posted in the online searchable schedule.

Departmental Issues [Details]

•	Assessing Student Learning in Courses and Curriculum
•	Directing Theses and Dissertations: How Faculty Can Be Most Helpful
•	Effective Approaches to Peer Review of Teaching
•	Guidelines for Tenure and Promotion Reviews of Public Sociology (co-sponsored by the ASA Task Force on Institutionalizing Public Sociology)
•	How to Do the Scholarship of Teaching
•	Improving Pedagogy through Action Learning and Scholarship of Teaching
•	The Mismatch between Graduate Sociology Curriculum and the Skills Needed for Employment in Applied, Research, and Public Settings
•	Preventing and Addressing Student Plagiarism (co-sponsored with the Committee on Professional Ethics)
•	Sociology as a Community College Experience
•	Training Graduate Students in Ethical Practice (co-sponsored by the Committee on Professional Ethics)

Across Disciplines [Details]

•	Criminology-Programs Inside and Outside of Sociology Departments (co-sponsored with the American Society of Criminology)
•	Exporting Sociology into “STEM” Fields (part of the Research Support Forum)
•	Models of Joint Sociology and Anthropology Programs

Research and Policy [Details]

•	Bringing the Social Environment into Focus in Drug Abuse Research (co-sponsored by National Institute on Drug Abuse and the ASA Minority Fellowship Program)
•	Intersectionality and Public Policy: Collaborating Toward Social Justice
•	Composition and School Outcomes
	Planning the Future of the GSS (co-sponsored by the National Science Foundation School and the ASA Research Support Forum)
•	Sexual Citizenship in International Perspective: Constructing a Comparative Policy Study (supported by the ASA Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline)
•	Sociology and the New National Science Foundation (NSF) Initiative on The Science of Science and Innovation Policy (SciSIP)

Datasets and Resources [Details]

•	ASA Archives (part of the Research Support Forum)
•	Developments in Cross-National Research
•	The General Social Survey (GSS): Recent and Upcoming Developments (part of the Research Support Forum)
•	Using the American Community Survey (part of the Research Support Forum)
•	Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (part of the Research Support Forum)
•	Women and Mental Health (co-sponsored by Sociologist for Women in Society and Minority Fellowship Program)

Social Action Research [Details]

•	Civic Engagements: College Presidents' Viewpoints on Working in the Community
•	Sociologists in Community Action Research: AIDS
•	Sociologists in Community Action Research: At Risk Adolescents
•	Sociologists in Community Action Research: International Projects
•	Sociologists in Community Action Research: Violence Against Women

Professional Development [Details]

•	How Sociology Serves the Goals of General Education (co-sponsored by the ASA Task Force on Sociology and General Education)
•	Making the Most of Your Dissertation: Publishing Opportunities
•	Preparing Professional Presentations
•	Writing a Successful Grant Proposal (part of the Research Support Forum)

For Graduate Students and New Professionals [Details]

•	Applying for a Faculty Position in a Teaching-Oriented Institution
•	Early Careers in Applied and Research Settings
•	Graduate Student Teachers: Issues and Experiences Within and Beyond the Classroom
•	Mastering the Job Market
•	Searching for and Obtaining Academic Positions
•	Your First Academic Job: Success in the Early Faculty Years

Employment and Career Issues [Details]

•	Life on the Smaller Side: Balancing Responsibilities and Preparing for Tenure and Promotion in Smaller Liberal Arts Colleges
•	Strategies for Getting Tenure
•	Successful Organizational Consultants: Using Our Work to Build a Better World

Careers in Sociological Practice [Details]

•	A Hidden Washington Story: Sociologists in “Natural” Science Organizations (part of the Research Support Forum)
•	Careers in Contract Research
•	Challenges and Opportunities for Working on State Government Contracts for Family and Children’s Services
•	Sociologists in Federal Government
•	Sociologists Working in Advertising and Marketing

Teaching Sociology Courses [Details]

•	Teaching Introductory Sociology for the First Time
•	Teaching Introductory Sociology in the High School Setting
•	Teaching Research Methods and Making It Exciting
•	Teaching Sociology of Mental Health
•	Teaching Sociology of Work and Occupations
•	Teaching the Capstone Course
•	Teaching the History of Sociology within the Sociology Major
•	Teaching the Sociology of Children/Childhood
•	Teaching the Sociology of Gender & Work
•	Teaching the Sociology of Peace, War, Military Institutions, and Social Conflict (co-sponsored with the ASA Section on Peace, War, and Social Conflict)
•	Teaching Visual Sociology

Teaching Techniques and Innovations [Details]

•	Adventures in Sociology: Using Crime and Victimization Statistics in Introductory Courses
•	Awakening the Sociological Imagination in Undergraduate Demography
•	Critical Pedagogy in the Sociology Classroom
•	Effectively Using Popular Film in Sociology Courses
•	Information Literacy: The Partnership of Sociology Faculty and Social Science Librarians (co-sponsored by the ALA/Association of College and Research Libraries; part of the RSF)
•	Innovative Teaching Practices for Difficult Subjects
•	Inquiry Guided Learning in Sociology
•	Online Teaching: Best Practices
•	Teaching about Transgender Issues
•	Teaching White Privilege
•	Teaching Work and Family
•	Using ICPSR Resources to Teach Sociology
•	Views Outside the Classroom: Creative Field Trips That Bring Sociology into the Everyday