Teaching Experience (Positions/Courses)

H. Wesley Perkins, Ph.D.

Professor of Sociology, 1990-present
Associate Professor of Sociology (promoted with tenure), 1984-90
Assistant Professor of Sociology, 1978-84
Department of Anthropology and Sociology
Hobart & William Smith Colleges

Sociology courses

• Introductory Sociology
• Social Psychology
• Research Methods
• Research Practicum
• Data Analysis
• Advanced Quantitative Methods in Social Science
• Religion in Contemporary American Society
• Sociology of the Life Course

Interdisciplinary courses

• Alcohol Use and Abuse: Causes and Consequences (sociology/biochemistry)
• Adult Development (psychology/sociology)
• Generations (psychology/sociology)
• Since 1945 (general education course on post war America for first year students)
• The "Me Generation"? Current Dilemmas Over Values and Directions (team taught course for senior social science majors)

Director, Edinburgh Term Abroad Program
Hobart & William Smith Colleges, Spring 1999
University of Edinburgh, Scotland

• Religion, State, and Society in Modern Britain

Visiting Professor of Sociology, Fall 1990, Spring 1992
Colgate Rochester Divinity School

• Sociology of Religion
• Ethics and Contemporary Social Problems

Instructor, 1976-77
Department of Sociology
Yale University

• Statistical Analysis for Sociologists: I and II (graduate level courses taught as a two semester requirement for all beginning graduate students in sociology).

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