Panels and Workshops

To learn more about the Department of Sociology at UNC Chapel Hill, and life as a graduate student, we’re offering several panels and workshops during our Virtual Visiting Days. These sessions will take place on Zoom. You will be asked to enter a passcode to join and placed into the waiting room upon entering. This passcode will be emailed directly to you by the Graduate Student Services Manager, Kira Jones, prior to Virtual Visiting Days. 

Don’t forget! Whenever you join Zoom, check that your name is appearing how you want it to and then please add your pronouns and “new admit.” For Example: Kira J. (she/they, new admit).  

*Please note that all start times listed are for Eastern Time (ET)*

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25

11:00am – 12:30pm  |   Carolina Sociology Graduate Program Welcome

• Watch the video from this session (link will be emailed soon)

12:30pm – 1:30pm  |  Optional CPC Workshop (12:30-1:30)

• “CPC Signature Data: China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS)”Presented by Dr. Penny Gordon-Larson, CPC Fellow, Professor of Nutrition, CHNS PI

2:00-3:45pm   |   Sample Class   |  **The link to this class was included in the email you received 2/19** 

4:15pm – 5:30pm  |   Research at Carolina Panel   |   Join our LIVE panel

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26

Workshops

12:00pm – 2:20pm   |   Carolina Population Center (CPC) Workshop & Student Panel

• 12:00-1:00pm – CPC Workshop  |   **A link will be emailed to each student registered for this workshop**
  • Presentation – John Batsis: The Whole is Greater than the Sum of its Parts? The Importance of Fat and Muscle in the Aging Process
  • This presentation will be recorded and available on the CPC Youtube Channel.

• 1:05 -2:20pm – Panel with Students   |   Join our LIVE panel

12:15 – 1:30pm   |   Culture and Politics Workshop   |   Join this workshop

• Presentation – Andy Andrews, Neal Caren, and Micah Nelson, UNC-Chapel Hill: “Did Anti-Trump Protests Create a Blue Wave? Protest, Movements and the 2020 Election”

2:00pm – 3:15pm   |   Qualitative Data   |   **A link will be emailed to each student registered for this workshop**

• Topic & Reading – Iterative Coding: Locke, Karen, Martha Feldman, and Karen Golden-Biddle. “Coding Practices and Iterativity: Beyond Templates for Analyzing Qualitative Data.” Organizational Research Methods (2020): 1094428120948600. **A pdf of this article will be emailed to participants**

Panels

3:15pm – 5:00pm   |   Graduate Student Life (panel/Q&A)   |   Join our LIVE panel