Overview:
I am committed to providing high quality teaching. At NC State, I have designed and taught (1) a face-to-face undergraduate course on deviance and social control, and (2) both a face-to-face and an online undergraduate courses on sociological research methods. I also served as a lab instructor for sociological research methods and served as TA for various courses including social class; criminology; institutions of social control; and sociology of law.
I am particularly interested in teaching: crime, deviance and social control; criminological theory; community and crime; community and urban sociology; family and the life course; and social research methods.
Awards:
- 2019 SAGE Publishing Keith Roberts Teaching Innovations Award, SAGE Publications and American Sociological Association Section Teaching and Learning.
- Award for Excellence in Classroom Teaching 2017, North Carolina State University Graduate Student Association–A competitive award given to “graduate students [who] exemplified the University’s highest degree of teaching achievement in the classroom environment in 2017 [academic year].” This award was given in Spring 2018.
Peer-Reviewed Pedagogical Publications:
- Kawaguchi, Riku. 2019. “Give Methods a Chance Paper.” Assignment published in TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology. Washington DC: American Sociological Association. (http://www.asanet.org/teaching-learning/trails). See the abstract and other basic information about this assignment here.
Teaching Experience:
Instructor of Record at North Carolina State University
- Social Research Methods (online), Summer 2018, Summer 2019
- Social Research Methods (face-to-face), Spring 2019
- Social Deviance (face-to-face), Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018
Lab Instructor at North Carolina State University
- Sociological Research Methods (online), Spring 2016, Summer 2016, Summer 2017.
- Sociological Research Methods (face-to-face), fall 2015
Assistant Instructor at North Carolina State University
- Technology in Society and Culture (Online), Summer 2015, Summer 2017
Teaching Portfolio:
You can find more information about my teaching in my teaching portfolio, which includes my teaching experience, an extended teaching statement, a summary of official class evaluation by students, a summary of informal student feedback survey, and sample syllabi and assignments. Click here to see my teaching portfolio.
Also available is unofficial evaluation at ratemyprofessors.com.
