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Sociology Professor Presented Workshop at Teaching Conference

Posted on Monday, November 8, 2010

Dr. Kristin Park, Westminster College associate professor of sociology, was a co-presenter at the "Meeting the Challenges of the 21st-Century Classroom" teaching conference for college faculty Oct. 15-16 at Penn State-Shenango.

Park and Dr. JoAnn Chirico, who teaches sociology at Penn State-Beaver, presented a workshop for about 20 participants on the conference theme "Internationalizing the Curriculum."

Park presented an outline of two role-play assignments that she uses in her classes: "Social Theory" students become characters in Sandinista-era Nicaragua to apply and evaluate Marxist theory; and "Women in Cross-Cultural Perspective" students become characters with different views on the acceptability of female circumcision as practiced in some African countries.

Park, who joined the Westminster faculty in 1993, earned an undergraduate degree from Colgate University, master's certificate in Latin American Studies and master's and Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Contact Park at (724) 946-7251 or e-mail kpark@westminster.edu for additional information.

Dr. Kristin Park