TEACHSOC: long Field Trips workshop and student conflicts

[Andi Stepnick]

Hi All, How do you all work the requirements for "long" (e.g., weekend +) fieldtrips with students' other requirements.  One of my colleagues is trying to arrange a 4 day trip to the Heifer ranches in Arkansas, but most students can't go that long...or won't. Ideas? Thanks. Andi   Sarah:   Morton has given some wonderful ideas. Here are just a few more.   Museums can make great field trips too.  I routinely take my Race/Ethnicity class to the Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C. (a Friday-Sunday trip for us from Indiana), and I have colleagues who use the museum in Cincinnati on the underground railroad and/or the Civil Rights Museum in Memphis.  Native American museums re also very powerful--the story is almost always told from the point of view of white academics who control the museums.  Not only is there seldom much sophistication in presentation of various nations or variations in time periods, but the indigenous peoples are rarely expected to be patrons of the museum.  In the southwest, many museums are about the Pueblos or about Dine peoples (Apaches and Navahos), but the displays are all explained in English and sometimes Spanish. (Never mind that something like forty per cent of Apaches do not speak either of those languages.  How does the language that is used legitimate the existence and the importance of such people as visitors to the museum.   In the past our social change course involved a week in Washington D.C. interviewing change agents of various sorts.  The person who teaches Social Class and Inequality has his class spend a day in homeless shelters and meeting with homeless people who have become movement spokespersons.  It is common for a Sociology of Sport class to go to a professional sporting event--with specific patterns they are to observe and analyze in a reflection paper.   Keith        *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *       Keith A. Roberts, Ph.D.      Department of Sociology and Anthropology      Hanover College      Hanover, IN  47243        [EMAIL PROTECTED]      Office Phone: 812/ 866-7353   I have been asked to organize a workshop called "A Look Beyond the Classroom: Creative Class Trips that Bring Sociology to the Everyday."   Anyone have any imput?   I take my classes to a local shopping mall to search for evidence as to whether or not we are a culture that supports "family values" or violent behavior.   Sarah Murray William Paterson U. of NJ --   Andi     Every object, every being, Is a jar of delight. Be a connoisseur.      ~Rumi~   Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.      ~Cathy Better~   Things which matter most should never be at the mercy of things which matter least.       ~Johann von Goethe~   ---------------- Dr. Andi Stepnick Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology 314 Wheeler Humanities Building Belmont University 1900 Belmont Blvd. Nashville TN 37212-3757   Direct Line:  (615) 460-6249 Office Manager: (615) 460-5505 Sociology Fax:  (615) 460-6997   --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Teaching Sociology" group. To post to this group, send email to teachsoc@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/teachsoc -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---