SESP Seeking Supplemental TA Positions
Supplemental Teaching Assistant (TA) positions available in School of Education and Social Policy, working with Assistant Professor of Instruction Lilah Shapiro. More information on winter and spring 2022 courses in need of TAs is below. Email Stephanie Brehm at s-brehm@northwestern.edu if you are interested.
SESP 200: Understanding Knowledge
Winter 2022 M/W 11:00-12:20 and Spring 2022 TBD
What does it mean to know something? What are the different types of knowledge and what distinguishes them from one another? What counts as fact vs. opinion vs. belief and so on; who gets to decide and under what conditions? How is knowledge produced and how does it gain traction? How does the source and type of knowledge interact with socio-political-cultural constructs and systems of power and, in turn, how can “knowledge” be used to produce and/or perpetuate power and privilege or to empower those who are marginalized? Finally, how does what we do in SESP and at Northwestern as both consumers and producers of knowledge fit within the landscape of these questions? In this course, students will explore these and other questions to gain insight into the social production, distribution, consumption, interpretation, and operationalization of “knowledge.” Using primarily seminar-style discussion, the course focuses on building and analyzing theoretical frameworks and applied texts in order to generate a working understanding of “knowledge” in its myriad forms. Among our goals for the course is to tie theoretical, academic, and “folk” knowledges to everyday experiences and the world around us writ large.
LOC 351: Identities, Intersections, and Organizations
Winter 2022 M/W 2:00-3:20
Fundamental to nearly all life experiences is a) who we are - who we understand ourselves to be and who others think we are, b) the organizations and groups of which we are a part, and c) the co-construction and myriad entanglements and interactions of these things. Using primarily seminar-style discussion and a series of case studies, this course focuses on building and analyzing theoretical frameworks to understand the nature of individual, group, and organizational identity, identity politics, theories of intersectionality (that is, the critical interactions/tensions among social roles, histories, identities, social locations, and so on), and how each of these function and manifest in the life of and life in myriad types of organizations and groups. Developing a robust understanding of how to identify and deconstruct the dynamic and varying role that identities play in organizations and group life is key to understanding the “life course” and experiences of individuals within groups, how/why organizations behave the way they do, whose needs groups/organizations serve/who is left out or marginalized, and the possibility of/conditions for change at both the individual and group levels.
SESP 391-0: Advanced Research Design
Spring 2022
Overview of research methods that may be used to design and implement the honors thesis. The first course in the SESP undergraduate honors thesis sequence. The course is about helping the students to identify a thesis topic, craft a research question, and develop a research proposal. This is a workshop class with one-on-one mentoring of the students during class time.
Email Stephanie Brehm at s-brehm@northwestern.edu if you are interested. This position would work with Assistant Professor of Instruction Lilah Shapiro.
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