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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.

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Merril Silverstein
Final Research Paper: Quality of Life Across the Life-Span: Do Advantages/Disadvantages Accumulate With Age
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Aging/Social Gerontology
Resource Type(s):
Assignment
Class Level(s):
College 400
Abstract:
Do the rich get richer and the poor get poorer over the years such that that inequalities earlier in the life-span grow with aging (a form of double jeopardy)? Or is aging a great leveler, reducing earlier advantages?
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Aaron E. Devor
SOCIAL JUSTICE: LESBIAN, GAY, BI, TRANS. QUEER?
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Sexualities
Resource Type(s):
Syllabus
Class Level(s):
College 300
Abstract:
An examination of issues of concern to contemporary gay, lesbian, bi, trans, and queer social movements. Topics to be covered may include theoretical explanations of gender and sexual variance, cross-cultural and historical gender and sexual variations, cultural...
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Gary Orfield
Brown v. Board Of Education and American Schools:Educational Impacts of Segregation, Desegregation, Integration, Resegregation
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Education
Resource Type(s):
Syllabus
Class Level(s):
Graduate
Abstract:
The prevailing pattern of American schooling has been one of deep separation of students by race and class, either through exclusion of some groups from school or through education in separate schools. Though the first 165 years under the constitution, the exclusion...
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Jan Marie Fritz
OVERVIEW OF THE FIELD
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Sociological Practice
Resource Type(s):
Bibliography, Essay
Class Level(s):
Any Level
Abstract:
Some basic information is provided here - a definition of the field, a brief history and a list of general references:
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Katherine R. Rowell
AIDS in Sub-Sahara Africa: A Detailed Examination of Botswana, Swaziland, South Africa, and Uganda
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Introduction to Sociology/Social Problems
Resource Type(s):
Class Activity
Class Level(s):
College 100
Abstract:
The module is intended to introduce you to one of the greatest social problems to face this planet, the global epidemic of HIV/AIDS and to increase your computer and research skills within sociology. We will be doing the majority of this module in class. There is a...
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Alondra Nelson
Technology, Society and Culture
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Science and Technology
Resource Type(s):
Syllabus
Class Level(s):
College 300
Abstract:
Implicit within the utopian commercial narratives that framed the information revolution of the last twenty-five years has been a variant of "technological determinism"----the philsophy that technologies are the sole or primary engines of social change. In this...
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P. Denise Cobb, Connie Frey
Sociology 495: Senior Assignment Seminar
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Capstone Courses
Resource Type(s):
Syllabus
Class Level(s):
College 400
Abstract:
This syllabus represents the capstone course for general sociology majors. Sociology majors can choose one of two tracks that yield very different senior assignment experiences for students. For example, the Employment Relations program revolves around students’...
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Adina Nack
A Visit from the GLBT Fairy Godmother
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Sex and Gender
Resource Type(s):
Assignment
Class Level(s):
College 300
Abstract:
I designed this activity to help undergraduate students better understand the lived realities of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered individuals. In addition to helping students "personalize" the experiences of these groups, the activity also asks students to...
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JEANIE AKAMANTI
ELECTRONIC BENEFIT TRANSFER REDEMPTION: AN INTERACTIVE EXERCISE
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Disabilities
Resource Type(s):
Class Activity
Abstract:
This exercise is an interactive participation process that emulates using an Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) card, the distribution method that has replaced paper food stamp coupons. EBT is a delivery option that at first glance might easier, faster, and safer for...
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Basil Kardaras
Selected Video Titles on Development, Women and Development, and Related Topics
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Development
Resource Type(s):
Film List
Class Level(s):
Any Level
Abstract:
List of video titles on Development, Women and Development, and Related Topics. This is one of Thirty three selected bibliographies spanning over one hundred pages are presented focusing on scholarship on the Sociology of Development and Women in Development...
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