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Teaching Resource Center Syllabi Sets and Teaching manuals
What were the TRC Syllabi Sets or Paper Teaching manuals?
Prior to the development of TRAILS , the ASA's Teaching Resource Center sponsored the creation of paper teaching manuals known as Syllabi Sets. The resources for Syllabi Sets were collected by volunteer editors, who selected teaching materials related to a specific course and organized them into paper volumes, which were then printed and bound with low production cost, card stock covers. The ASA facilitated the collection of the materials, the production of the bound volumes, and their sale and distribution.
Where can I find them now?
The majority of the most recent original TRC Syllabi sets were scanned and modulized and became the baseline set of resources in TRAILS. Over time, the resources in TRAILS will grow far beyond these original materials. You can find teaching resources from a specific syllabi set by typing the last name of the volume editor into the search box in TRAILS and clicking search.
Many of the resources from the following TRC Syllabi Sets can now be found in TRAILS.
TRAILS Authors and Topics
| Topic | Author |
|---|---|
| Alcohol and Drugs, The Sociology of | Carrie B. Oser, Richard Dembo, Paul M. Roman |
| Animals and Society | Janet M. Alger, Tracey Smith-Harris, Shawn McEntee, Kim W. Stallwood |
| Appalachian Studies | Chris Baker |
| Applied Sociology | Duane Dukes, James C. Petersen, Thomas L. Van Valey |
| Body, Teaching the Sociology of | Erin K. Anderson & Susan J. Ferguson |
| Capstone Course in Sociology | Theodore C. Wagenaar |
| CHICANO/AND LATINO/A STUDIES | Jose Calderon & Gilda L. Ochoa |
| Children/Childhood | Sue Marie Wright |
| CLINICAL SOCIOLOGY RESOURCE BOOK | Jan Marie Fritz |
| Comparative-Historical Methods in Sociology | John Foran |
| CONSUMERS AND CONSUMPTION | Daniel Thomas Cook, J. Michael Ryan, Meghan Ashlin Rich |
| Criminology | Richard A. Wright |
| CRITICAL PEDAGOGY IN THE CLASSROOM | Peter Kaufman |
| Critical Thinking | |
| Death and Dying | Gerry R. Cox & Timothy B. Gongaware |
| Demography Teaching Resources Guide | David Payne, Loretta Bass, Rebecca A. Nees |
| Development and Women in Development | Basil Kardaras |
| Deviance and Social Control | Martin Schwartz, Michael O. Maume |
| ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY | Elisabeth Anderson, Michaela DeSoucey |
| Environmental Sociology | Michael Mascarenhas |
| Ethnoviolence and Hate Crimes | Abby Ferber & Kimberly Holcomb |
| Families | Ginger E. Macheski, Kathleen S. Lowney, Michael Capece, Kate Warner, Martha Laughlin |
| Family and Gender Violence | Barbara Keating |
| GENDER AND WORK | Patti A. Giuffre and Sharon R. Bird |
| Gender, The Sociology of: | Betsy Lucal, Amy Blackstone |
| Genocide, Teaching About | Joyce Apsel & Helen Fein |
| Humanist Sociology | Glenn A. Goodwin & Martin D. Schwartz |
| Innovative Techniques | Sandi Kawecka Nenga, Edward L. Kain |
| Integrating Data Analysis | Susan M. Hilal, Meredith Redlin |
| Introduction to Sociology as a Hybrid Course | Lynn Harper Ritchey |
| Introductory Sociology | James P. Sikora & Njeri Mbugua |
| Issues in U.S. Immigration | Nadejda Chapkina, Charles Jaret, Guangya Liu, Angela Pollock |
| Jewry, The Sociology of | Paul Burstein |
| Marxist Perspective | Martha E. Gimenez & Brian P. Hawkins |
| Mass Media in the Classroom | Heather Laube, Sarah Sobieraj |
| Medical Sociology | Robin D. Moremen |
| Mental Health and Illness, Sociology of | Teresa L. Scheid & William Magee |
| Organizational | Donna C. Bird |
| Peace, War, and Military Institutions | Morten G. Ender, Lynn Woehrle, Ryan Kelty |
| Political Sociology | Sarah Sobieraj |
| Preparing Graduate Students to Teach | Morten G. Ender, Marilyn C. Krogh |
| Proseminars | Jean Beaman |
| Qualitative Methods | James David Ballard & Vickie Jensen |
| Race and Ethnic Relations | Donald Cunnigen |
| Religion, Teaching the Sociology of | Lutz Kaelber & Douglas E. Cowan |
| Research Methods in Cyberspace | Norah P. Shultz, Susan Goodrich Lehmann |
| Science, Knowledge, & Technology | Jennifer L. Croissant |
| Service-Learning and Undergraudate Sociology | JoAnn DeFiore, Morten G. Ender, Brenda Marsteller Kowalewski |
| Sexuality and Sexual Orientation | Tracy E. Ore |
| Social Movements | Bob Edwards, Marieke Van Willigen, Tisha Yelverton Kowalewski |
| Social Networks | D.B. Tindall and Todd E. Malinick |
| Social Problems | Walter Carroll & Lutz Kaelber |
| Social Psychology | R. Kettlitz |
| Social Statistics | Rhoda Estep Macdonald |
| Social Stratification Courses | Scott Sernau & Johnnie Griffin |
| Sociological Concepts and Gender | Marybeth C. Stalp & Julie Childers |
| Sociological Theory: A Resource Book | Gillian Niebrugge, Patricia Lengermann, Andrea Brenner |
| Sociology Of Culture: Teaching Guide | William G. Holt |
| Sociology of Education | Jeanne Ballantine, Richard Arum |
| Sociology of HIV/AIDS | Carrie E. Foote-Ardah & Eric R. Wright |
| Sociology of Law | Lloyd Klein |
| Teaching About Human Rights | Joyce A. Apsel |
| Teaching Sociology & Disability Studies | Lynn Schlesinger & Diane E. Taub |
| THE LIFE COURSE | Robin S. Patterson, Richard A. Settersten, Jr. |
| The Sociology of Food | Denise A. Copelton & Betsy Lucal |
| The Sociology of Sport: | James Steele |
| Utopian Thinking in Sociology | Arthur B. Shostak |
| Violence in American Society | Suzanne Goodney-Lea |
| Visual Sociology/Film/Video | Diane Papadamas |
| Women Founders Into Classical Theory | Jan E. Thomas |
| Work and Family | Diane Papadamas |