Scholars of teaching and learning in sociology have argued that introductory courses should teach toward foundational learning goals instead of providing an exhaustive review of the discipline. Nevertheless, prior research has provided far more guidance on what instructors ought to teach than how they can cohesively support learning across the goals advocated. Additionally, few studies have considered whether introductory course designs adequately address students’ diverse reasons for enrolling. To address this gap in the literature, we offer insights from our experiences with a redesigned introductory course tailored to support student learning in the areas recommended by earlier work. After describing our learning goals and the elements of our course design, which are grounded in empirical findings from the literature, we present evidence for the efficacy of this design in achieving key disciplinary learning goals, serving students’ personal learning goals, and attracting new and existing majors and minors.

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社会学导论基础学习目标的战略设计

社会学教与学的学者认为，入门课程应该针对基础学习目标进行教学，而不是提供对学科的详尽回顾。然而，先前的研究提供了更多关于教师应该教什么的指导，而不是他们如何能够有凝聚力地支持跨越所倡导的目标的学习。此外，很少有研究考虑介绍性课程设计是否充分解决了学生入学的各种原因。为了解决文献中的这一差距，我们通过重新设计的介绍性课程提供了我们的经验见解，该课程旨在支持学生在早期工作推荐的领域中的学习。在描述了我们的学习目标和课程设计的要素之后，这些要素以文献中的实证结果为基础，