Types
- Consultations may take a variety of formats and are tailor-made to the specific needs of the host deparment
- Aid the host department in conducting a periodic self-study
- Aid the host department in adapting to financial constraints or new procedures and standards imposed by higher education administrations or legislatures
- Aid the host department in learning about the latest teaching strategies, information and resources
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Characteristics
- Consultants work with both undergraduate and graduate programs, sociology programs or joint programs, and newly-developing departments
- To the extent possible, we will match your request with someone from a similar institution with expertise in the topics most prominent on your agenda
- DRG consultants do not evaluate individuals for promotion, tenure or personnel decisions of any kind
- DRG consultants do NOT visit a department with the mission of discrediting the program or its faculty members
- DRG consultants DO serve as a catalyst and facilitator for honest, meaningful, and creative reflection and revitalization
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Workshops
- DRG consultants are prepared to lead workshops on a variety of topics for the department, campus, or a consortium. Workshops may focus on:
- Teaching specific courses
- Evaluation of teaching
- Innovative teaching techniques
- Race, gender, class, and diversity
- Training teaching assistants
- Teaching the introductory course
- Starting an applied sociology program
- Design of the sociology major and minor
- Assessment of students
- Internationalizing the curriculum
- Building cross-disciplinary bridges
- Teaching the mass class
- Developing the capstone course
- Group dynamics in the classroom
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