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 (1978-2017)
Department of Sociology (2017-present)
Hobart & William Smith Colleges

Sociology courses

• Introductory Sociology
• Social Psychology
• Alcohol Use and Abuse: Causes and Consequences
• Research Methods
• Research Practicum
• Data Analysis
• Advanced Quantitative Methods in Social Science
• Religion in Contemporary American Society
• Theories of Religion: Religion, Power, and Social Transformation
• Religion, Politics and Life Style: What is Sacred in Modern Western Societies?
• 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)

Affiliation with Interdisciplinary Programs of Hobart & William Smith Colleges

• Public Policy Program, faculty steering committee member, 2004-present
• The Sacred in Cross-Cultural Perspective, program coordinator, 2007-present

Director, Galway Term Abroad Program
Hobart & William Smith Colleges, Fall 2017
National University of Ireland, Galway

Program Courses

• Social Problems in Modern Western Societies: Ireland in Comparative Perspective

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

Program Courses

• Religion, State, and Society in Modern Britain

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

Courses

• 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). Teaching duties as instructor included supervision of a graduate teaching assistant.

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