Professor Shayne teaches undergraduate and graduate courses about women, development, and social change in the Third World. She also teaches sociology and women's studies methodology classes. Her courses are interdisciplinary in subject and content. She uses a variety of types of texts including: social science, fiction, memoir, testimony, and film.
Women, Culture, and Development (published in Syllabi and Teaching Resources for the Sociology of Development and Women and Development. Ed., B. Kardaras. American Sociological Association. April, 2005).
World Inequality and Underdevelopment
Introduction to Women's Studies: Latin American and Caribbean Perspective
Development and Social Change in Latin America
Women's Struggles in Asia, Africa, and Latin America
Graduate Courses Taught:
Women and Development (published in Syllabi and Teaching Resources for the Sociology of Development and Women and Development. Ed., B. Kardaras. American Sociological Association. April, 2005).
Field Research Methods (published in Teaching Qualitative Methods Compendium. Eds., D. Ballard & V. Jensen. American Sociological Association. 2007).
Methods and Topics in Women's Studies
She has also worked hard to "internationalize" the Women's Studies curriculum. She started leading workshops on the topic while a graduate student at UC Santa Barbara and has since organized them at Emory, the National Women's Studies Association annual meeting, and the Sociologists for Women in Society bi-annual meeting. She has worked with graduate students to create a resource packet that has been circulated internationally (click here to download the Internationalizing Courses resource packet).
