Robert L. Perry (Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, Kansas)

Submitted:  Wed, 15 May 2002


Robert L. Perry
Professor of Sociology
Department of Sociology 
Johnson County Community College
12345 College Blvd.
Overland Park, Kansas  66210  USA
 
phone:    913/469-8500, Ext. 3612
fax:      913/469-2585
e-mail:   bperry@jccc.net



I am a returned Peace Corps Volunteer (Kenya, 1982-83). In my teaching of
basic sociology classes I try to expose my students to Africa. My
introductory sociology students are required to read a work of African
fiction and write an extensive sociological evaluation of it.

An overview of that paper is contained in my most recent publication: 
"On Using African Literature in the Teaching of Basic Sociology"  in
'Professing' Humanist Sociology, Fourth Edition, American Sociological
Association Teaching Resources Center, Washington, DC. 2000.