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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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Bernice A. Pescosolido
SOCIOLOGICAL ISSUES IN COLLEGE PEDAGOGY AND HIGHER EDUCATION
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Teaching and Learning in Sociology
Resource Type(s):
Syllabus
Class Level(s):
Graduate
Abstract:
This second course in Sociology's Preparing Future Faculty Program is designed to continue the preparation of graduate students in Sociology to teach to a variety of audiences, including students and the public, to become active members of the university community,...
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Tom Gregoire
INTEGRATIVE SEMINAR ON ALCOHOLISM
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Social Welfare/Social Work
Resource Type(s):
Syllabus
Class Level(s):
Any Level
Abstract:
Alcoholism and other drug addictions are ubiquitous. Regardless of the arena in which you choose to practice social work, you cannot avoid addiction and its consequences. The intent of this course is to introduce concepts of addiction and to review current issues...
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Phillip Bonacich
Network Methods
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Social Networks
Resource Type(s):
Syllabus
Class Level(s):
Graduate
Abstract:
Social network analysis is both an approach and a method for the analysis of social structure. The social network approach has been used on a variety of topics, from the position of the Medici family in Florence in the Middle Ages to the spread of AIDS, from the...
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Kathleen Grove
STUDENT PROJECT Sociology B113 Sociology of the AIDS Epidemic -
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Medical Sociology
Resource Type(s):
Assignment
Class Level(s):
College 400
Abstract:
This is an optional assignment for students who would like to be involved in activities as diverse as providing direct assistance in HIV prevention efforts (e.g. safe sex campaigns), organizing for HIV/AIDS charities (e.g. fund raisers), providing informal support at...
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Carol Barbee Wortham
GRT 485: Death and Dying
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Aging/Social Gerontology
Resource Type(s):
Syllabus
Class Level(s):
College 400
Abstract:
This course is designed to provide an investigation of some of the major areas of death and dying research and to relate them to older people. Course Objectives: 1. To become sensitized to issues in death and dying. 2. To gain a better understanding of issues in...
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Denise Anthony
HEALTH CARE AND HEALTH CARE POLICY
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Medical Sociology
Resource Type(s):
Syllabus
Class Level(s):
College 400
Abstract:
This course explores the policy issues and implications associated with health care in the United States. More specifically, we will explore the social, economic, organizational and institutional contexts of health care and medicine to answer questions such as, who...
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Elizabeth Armstrong
From Hip Hop to Opera: The Production and Consumption of Culture
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Capstone Courses
Resource Type(s):
Syllabus
Class Level(s):
College 400
Abstract:
This class will introduce students to sociological approaches to the production and consumption of culture through a series of active learning projects that emphasize writing, public speaking, teamwork, and research skills. This class requires that students engage...
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Barrie Thorne
Gender Adventure
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Sex and Gender
Resource Type(s):
Assignment
Class Level(s):
College 300
Abstract:
Students are invited to explore and decode the gender (and racial-ethnic, age, and/’or class-related) marking of a domain of material objects, like shavers, big wheels, or watches. They gather and analyze empirical examples, using readings on the social construction...
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Susan M. Ross
Problem-Based Learning: An Exercise on Vermont’s Legalization of Civil Unions
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Family
Resource Type(s):
Essay
Class Level(s):
Graduate
Abstract:
(Originally Published in Teaching Sociology, 32: 79-93.) The majority of literature regarding problem-based learning demonstrates its usefulness as a teaching technique in the natural sciences curriculum. The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, the broad...
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Barbara R. Keating
Classroom Exercise: "Assessing Responsibility"
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Family
Resource Type(s):
Class Activity
Class Level(s):
College 200
Abstract:
Purpose: To explore and challenge the assumptions found in victim blaming.
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