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TRAILS Featured Resources
TRAILS Featured Resources
February 23, 2023

TRAILS, the Teaching Resources and Innovation Library for Sociology, provides a way for you to easily locate peer-reviewed teaching materials, showcase your teaching ideas, develop professionally, and join a community of scholarly teachers. You will find great assignments, syllabi, lectures, and other teaching ideas at TRAILS. Please also consider submitting your great ideas for teaching. The Featured Resources include some of the newest additions to our collection.

-Stephanie Medley-Rath
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Lynn H Green
CAPSTONE SENIOR SEMINAR IN SOCIOLOGY AT THE NATION’S FIRST HBCU
November 8, 2015
Subject Area(s):
Capstone Courses
Resource Type(s):
Syllabus
Class Level(s):
College 400
Class Size(s):
Small
Abstract:
As the required capstone course for Social Relations majors concentrating in Sociology, the Senior Seminar at Cheyney University seeks to integrate academic knowledge, professional skills and students’ personal aspirations. The Seminar is conducted as a series of...
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Will LeSuer
Gender Bingo
October 9, 2015
Subject Area(s):
Sex and Gender
Resource Type(s):
Class Activity
Class Level(s):
Any Level
Class Size(s):
Any
Abstract:
The objective of this classroom activity is to assess and reinforce basic concepts and terminology relating to gender through an interactive game: gender bingo. The bingo game is set up where instructors read definitions aloud and students match them to the new...
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Robert S Bausch
Two Hypothesis Testing Assignments Using the Survey Documentation and Analysis Website
September 21, 2015
Subject Area(s):
Introduction to Sociology/Social Problems
Resource Type(s):
Assignment
Class Level(s):
College 100
Class Size(s):
Any
Abstract:
These assignments are intended to provide Introductory Sociology students an opportunity to gain a better understanding of the hypothesis testing process by analyzing General Social Survey data available at the Survey Documentation and Analysis website. Students are...
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Michael V Miller
Accessing Emerging Online Content in Sociology via RSS
September 2, 2015
Subject Area(s):
Teaching and Learning in Sociology
Resource Type(s):
Website
Class Level(s):
Any Level
Class Size(s):
Any
Abstract:
RSS enables easy access to emerging online content. The potential of RSS to promote research and teaching is illustrated in this brief description of a model developed for use by sociology faculty and students at The University of Texas at San Antonio
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Stephanie Medley-Rath
OBJECTS FROM EVERYDAY LIFE: A CAN OF COCA-COLA
September 2, 2015
Subject Area(s):
Introduction to Sociology/Social Problems
Resource Type(s):
Class Activity
Class Level(s):
Any Level
Class Size(s):
Any
Abstract:
"Objects From Everyday Life: A Can of Coca-Cola" is a detailed adaptation of an activity adapted by Peter Kaufman (1997) and published in Teaching Sociology. This exercise is designed to help students develop their sociological imagination. Specifically, students...
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Fletcher Winston
The Other Me: An Assignment to Develop the Sociological Imagination by Imagining a Walk in Someone Else’s Shoes
August 18, 2015
Subject Area(s):
Introduction to Sociology/Social Problems
Resource Type(s):
Assignment
Class Level(s):
College 100
Class Size(s):
Any
Abstract:
This assignment asks introductory sociology students to create a new biography and imagine how this change in their personal profiles affects their interests, predilections, goals, and opportunities. Comparison between the personas and projected outcomes of their...
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Mary-Beth Raddon
Community Engagement
July 6, 2015
Subject Area(s):
Community
Resource Type(s):
Assessment, Assignment, Syllabus
Class Level(s):
Any Level
Class Size(s):
Any
Abstract:
This resource is a two-part syllabus for SOCI2F60 Foundations for Community Engagement, a high enrolment, full credit Sociology course. The design of the course is a variation on service-learning, a model of teaching and learning in which students' academic studies...
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Nick Rochin
Social Inequality: Race and the Criminal Legal System
June 30, 2015
Subject Area(s):
Introduction to Sociology/Social Problems
Resource Type(s):
Class Activity
Class Level(s):
Any Level
Class Size(s):
Medium
Abstract:
Inequality is a broad concept that is central to the discipline of sociology and can be understood in a number of different contexts. Inequality is not simply a disparity in outcomes, such as educational attainment or income, but it is a systematic unequal...
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Kristin Holster
Technology & Society Research Paper Assignment
June 18, 2015
Subject Area(s):
Science and Technology
Resource Type(s):
Assignment
Class Level(s):
Any Level
Class Size(s):
Any
Abstract:
Research has demonstrated that the use of nontraditional readings can provide undergraduate students with an accessible medium to explore sociological ideas and concepts (Castellanos, DeAngelis, & Clark-Ibanez, 2008). Specifically, science fiction novels involve...
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Shawn A. Trivette
Teaching Sustainability through Activism: The Greening University Projects
June 8, 2015
Subject Area(s):
Environmental Sociology
Resource Type(s):
Assignment
Class Level(s):
College 300
Class Size(s):
Medium
Abstract:
This class project asks students to work in small groups to "green" some aspect of their university or college, applying theory and course concepts to the process of making environmental change in the world around them. The project entails writing a proposal, working...
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