by David Yamane | Dec 15, 2021 | gender, Rob Pincus, Sociology of Guns Seminar, Student Writing, Wake Forest University
As noted earlier, the final assignment of the semester in my Sociology of Guns seminar is for the students to write an essay reflecting on their personal experience with and understanding of guns in light of what they learned in the course. Here is the second of...
by David Yamane | Dec 14, 2021 | Craig Douglas, Randy Miyan, Sociology of Guns Seminar, Student Writing, Wake Forest University
As noted yesterday, the final assignment of the semester in my Sociology of Guns seminar is for the students to write an essay reflecting on their personal experience with and understanding of guns in light of what they learned in the course. Here is the first of...
by David Yamane | Dec 13, 2021 | Craig Douglas, John Johnston, Melody Lauer, Randy Miyan, Rob Pincus, sociology, Sociology of Guns Seminar, Student Writing, Wake Forest University
Another year of Sociology of Guns at Wake Forest University is in the books. This is the 7th time in 7 years I have taught the course. COVID made some things different this semester. In fall 2020, I taught the course online. I was happy to be able to meet this...
by David Yamane | Sep 27, 2021 | Sociology of Guns Seminar, Wake Forest University
In a comment on an earlier student range reflection essay for my Sociology of Guns seminar at Wake Forest University, my online friend from Alaska Matthew Carberry mentioned the possibility that the students’ responses to our gun range field trip is influenced...
by David Yamane | Sep 26, 2021 | Sociology of Guns Seminar, Student Writing, Wake Forest University
Following their gun field trip reflections, the core assignment in Sociology of Guns is for students to move beyond their personal views (articulated in their field trip reflection essays) and adopt a scholarly approach to the question of guns in society. Here the...
by David Yamane | Sep 25, 2021 | gun safety, Sociology of Guns Seminar, Student Writing
This is the eighth and final student gun range field trip reflection essay I will be posting from my fall 2021 Sociology of Guns seminar (see reflection #1, reflection #2, reflection #3, reflection #4, reflection #5, reflection #6, and reflection #7). The assignment...
