Teaching

Teaching Interests

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.

Overview:

I am committed to providing high quality teaching. At Mercer University, I have designed and taught introductory sociology, deviance, and marriage and family courses. 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.

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 Mercer University

• Introductory Sociology, Fall 2019, Spring 2020
• Introduction to Criminal Justice, Spring 2020
• Deviance, Fall 2019
• Marriage and Family: Diversity and Change, Fall 2019
• Criminology, Spring 2020

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.