A Program to Improve Laboratory and Classroom Instruction of an Undergraduate Sociology Curriculum

这项奖励将提供设备，使社会学系能够在成功获得国家科学基金会地点资助的基础上再接再厉。利用LOGI资金实施的课程将研究方法融入教学内容，这些变化导致使用系计算机实验室的学生数量大幅增加。这笔资金将用于购买个人计算机和统计软件，以补充实验室使用的现有主机终端和软件。此外，这笔款项将用于购买计算机硬件，以便系将在其专业中证明非常成功的现场教学法推广到非主修专业。接受资助的机构正在将这一NSF奖项与非联邦来源的资金相匹配。

This award will provide equipment which will allow the Sociology Department to build upon a successful National Science Foundation LOCI grant. The curriculum implemented with the LOCI funds integrated research methods into course content, and these changes brought about a large increase in the number of students using the department's computer laboratory. Funds from this award will be used to purchase personal computers and statistical software which will complement the existing mainframe terminals and software in use in the laboratory. In addition, funds will be used for the purchase of computer hardware which will allow the department to extend the use of the LOCI pedagogy, which has proven so successful with their majors, to non-majors. The grantee institution is matching this NSF award with funds from non-Federal sources.