Clubs and Organizations
WOKE
Pamela Jackson, Director of Undergraduate Studies, worked with undergraduate and graduate students to establish our new undergraduate Sociology club in fall, 2017.WOKE owes its name to students enrolled in the summer GROUPS scholars program. At that time, these students were taking a sociology course on Racism as a Social Problem. When told that previous sociology undergraduate students were yearning for a Sociology Club, they were asked to submit possible names. After a couple of days of gathering their responses, the one that emerged the most often had the word “WOKE” in it. It was the winner. The students reported that this sociology class “woke them up to reality.”
AKD
In November, 2017, WOKE partnered with the sociology honor society (AKD) with the support of other academic units to organize a panel discussion about post-election stress among millennials. This panel included four current sociology graduate students and two graduates of the program, one of whom works as Associate Professor at DePauw University and the other as the director of the Social Science Research Commons. The audience was thrilled as they became part of a conversation that started with a “def” poem by Jelani Ince (one of the panelists). The students were then drawn in by the personal stories of the panel as well as the statistical picture that emerged from the data on postelection stress.
