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By Pat Sweeney
Sociology professor Daphne Pedersen is the latest to receive UND’s highest academic honor.
Pedersen has been named a Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor.
She joined the UND faculty in 2004,
Biology professor Vasyl Tkach (vuh-SEEL tuh-CATCH) was similiarly honored last week.
The criteria for selection include “demonstrated achievement across research, teaching, and service,” with “significant national or regional recognition in any one of these missions”… “significant professional contributions” throughout the nominee’s career… and recognition by UND colleagues “as a faculty member who has made a valuable contribution to the quality of UND’s academic programs.”
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Teaching Sociology of Gender During COVID-19: Lessons from Contexts Magazine by Gabrielle G. Gonzales and Catherine J. Taylor | April 15, 2021
Photo by Samantha Borges on Unsplash
In March of 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic caused most university education to go virtual, we were starting a new quarter and were scheduled to teach “Sociology of Gender.” Having no experience with online teaching, nor pandemics, we faced the question of: how do we teach about gender inequality, online, in this context? In this essay we describe an assignment (linked here) that we developed as part of our strategy to address this question, as well as what we learned from reading the students’ essay responses to the assignment. In the course, Taylor was the instructor of record and developed the assignment while Gonzales was the teaching assistant and graded all of the student essays.
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