I believe in a critical, open, and inclusive pedagogy, where students get the tools to analyze the social world so that they might understand how to change it. I use a broad array of demonstration and assessment tools that include: writing, maps, photo essays, podcasts, game design, journaling, class presentations, and collaborative group work.
I am interesting in thinking through the ways in which sociology can be a lens not just for thinking about the world around us, but a way to think about pedagogical practice as well. I consider myself a teacher-scholar.
Courses designed and taught
- Digital Storytelling
- Sociology of the Wild (Environmental Sociology)
- Digital Stories produced by students
- Social Theory
- Pedagogical writing: “The Art of Play and Teaching Theory“
- Visualizing the City (here for syllabus)
- Urban BINGO activity (please use!)
- Contesting the City: Capitalism, Race, and Nature (here for syllabus)
- teaching example: “What is Gentrification” brochure (feel free to use in classroom setting)
- Qualitative Research summer intensive through the Center for Ethnographic Research at University of California Berkeley
- teaching example: “Visual Guide for How to write a Research Proposal“
- Introduction to Sociology (syllabus)
- Globalization taught inside the prison
Other teaching areas
- Race and Institutions of Racial Domination
- Critical carceral state; critical criminal justice
- Intro to social science methods and methodology
- Social Problems
Awards and Grants
- 2016 Margaret Sheridan Community Learning Award, Holleran Center at Connecticut College
- 2015 Temple Summer Institute for Technology and the Digital Enhanced Learning Initiative Grant
- 2013-2014 Blumer Fellowship for excellence in teaching, Department of Sociology UC Berkeley
- 2012 Sage/Pine Forge Teaching development award, ASA’s Teaching and Learning section
Siri J. Colom, PhD 