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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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Featured Resources

A teenaged girl smoking.
Jaclyn Tabor
The Teenage Bill of Rights: Social Construction of Adolescence from 1945 to the Present
April 7, 2026
Subject Area(s):
Children and Youth, Communication and Information Technologies, Comparative Sociology/Historical Sociology, Cultural Sociology, Education, Socialization
Resource Type(s):
Assignment, Class Activity, Film List
Class Level(s):
College 200, College 300
Class Size(s):
Any
Abstract:

This resource uses the documentary Teenage (Matt Wolf, 2013) and the New York Times “Teenage Bill of Rights” (1945) to help students analyze adolescence as a socially constructed life stage. Students watch the film in class with two structured pause...

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An overview shot of two cheesburgers, French fries, and drinks.
Ellen Meiser
Sociology of Food Syllabus
March 17, 2026
Subject Area(s):
Other
Resource Type(s):
Syllabus
Class Level(s):
College 400
Class Size(s):
Medium, Small
Abstract:

This syllabus is created for a 17-week long, upper-division in-person Sociology of Food course designed with an interdisciplinary Food Studies approach. Using literature and research from all corners of the food world— journalism,  cultural studies, emotions,...

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A view of the backs of a group of college students walking toward a university building
Reginald Byron
Teaching about ‘Racialized Space’ on Campus
March 11, 2026
Subject Area(s):
Introduction to Sociology/Social Problems, Race, Class and Gender, Racial and Ethnic Relations
Resource Type(s):
Class Activity
Class Level(s):
College 100, College 200, College 300
Class Size(s):
Medium, Small
Abstract:

Recent scholarship urges us to examine the physical and social spaces at universities including their historic statues, building portraits, and meeting spaces because these purported colorblind environments are often saturated with racialized meaning. This class...

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