Teaching Events

Throughout the year our department hosts and organizes numerous teaching events and workshops covering a wide range of topics relating to teaching and pedagogy.

Brown Bag Teaching Chats

Since 2016 the departmental teaching mentors have hosted a twice-a-term Brown Bag Teaching Chat inviting graduate students, faculty and outside guests to speak, share ideas and run workshops on a range of teaching related topics.

Past Brown Bag Events

Click here to read Joel Garrod’s blog about his brown bag teaching talk on teaching sociology through stand-up comedy.

Department Teaching Symposium

Since 2010, the Department of Sociology and Anthropology has organized and hosted seven half-day teaching events/symposia, normally at the end of the winter term. These teaching events, featuring panels with brief presentations on various aspects of teaching such as engaging large classes, creative new assignments, and community-engaged learning, are a chance for faculty, instructors, and graduate and undergraduate students, both from Sociology and Anthropology, and from other departments and Teaching and Learning Services, to share thoughts, ideas, and enthusiasm about teaching and learning as they reflect at the end of another teaching year.