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All TRAILS Resources
May 31, 2023

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Mary Nell Trautner
Gender and Cereal Boxes: Teaching through Testing
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Sex and Gender
Resource Type(s):
Assessment
Class Level(s):
College 300
Abstract:
Brief Description This essay question asks students to apply what they have learned about gender socialization and patriarchy to a real-world example originally found on the Guerrilla Girls website: the lack of female characters on cereal boxes.
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david A. Sonnenfeld
POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY: States, Citizens & Globalization
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Political Sociology
Resource Type(s):
Syllabus
Class Level(s):
College 400
Abstract:
What is "the state"? What role do elites and common citizens have in the working of the state? What is bureaucracy and how does it affect modern society? What is the relationship between states and the market in encouraging economic development? How do competing...
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Jose Zapata Calderon
RURAL AND URBAN SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Latina/o Sociology
Resource Type(s):
Syllabus
Class Level(s):
College 100
Abstract:
This course examines "social movements," as part of people’s collective efforts to create changes in society: their emergence, the process of their formation, and the varied strategies for their mobilization. Although the class will primarily focus on the Chicano...
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Beth Montemurro
Gender and Work Module 12
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Sexualities
Resource Type(s):
Syllabus
Class Level(s):
College 300
Abstract:
This course is designed to provide an in-depth look at the influence of gender on patterns of employment in North America. Gender shapes the jobs and careers we choose as well as our experiences in those jobs. The course begins with an overview of the history of...
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Judith Lorber
Thanksgiving as Kin Work
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Sex and Gender
Resource Type(s):
Assignment
Class Level(s):
College 200
Abstract:
Students are asked to analyze the interpersonal dynamics around Thanksgiving dinner or other celebratory family meal as a way of determining the gendered division of labor and family conflicts and their resolution. The student is asked to be an observer of his/her...
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Judith Elizabeth Doyle
Sociology 3501: Political Sociology
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Political Sociology
Resource Type(s):
Syllabus
Class Level(s):
College 300
Abstract:
This course examines the relationship between society and politics, the interactions between individuals and governments. With an awareness of agency and structure, processes of nationalism, globalization and civil society are investigated. We will first consider...
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April Brayfield
A SERIES OF WRITING ASSIGNMENTS
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Children and Youth
Resource Type(s):
Assignment
Class Level(s):
College 200
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Erin Kelly
Gender, Work, and Family - Guidance on Case Study Presentation and Paper
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Sexualities
Resource Type(s):
Assignment
Class Level(s):
College 300
Abstract:
Orienting questions that may help you develop an argument: What does work-family conflict "look like" in the respondents’ lives? Why does it have this character, given their particular situations, and how does it compare to the conflicts described in course readings?...
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Lora Bex Bex Lempert
Using Student Self-Assessments
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Sex and Gender
Resource Type(s):
Assessment
Class Level(s):
College 200
Abstract:
Writing a self-assessment challenges students to evaluate their own levels of course activity, encourages them to share in academic power, and requires them to take responsibility for graded performance. Students’ assessments of their contributions to learning are...
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Mary Ann Ann Kanieski
Sociology 390: Special Topics: Diverse Childhoods
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Aging/Social Gerontology
Resource Type(s):
Syllabus
Class Level(s):
Graduate
Abstract:
This is a compilation of teaching resources on The Life Course. The life course refers to the structure and patterning of individual lives, which are always both situated yet never reducible to the constraints of those situations. No individual can be understood...
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