APSA’s Teaching & Learning Symposia...
provide a unique opportunity for faculty with similar teaching interests to present on timely substantive issues in the field, share best practices, and develop new teaching resources.
Interested in co-facilitating a teaching & learning symposium in 2024 or 2025?
write us at teaching@apsanet.org
Past Events
2024
De-Centering the U.S. in the Global Politics Classroom
Co-Leaders: Amy L. Atchison (Middle Tennessee State University) and Malliga Och (Denison University) virtual, February 16, 17, and 22, 2024.
2023
Teaching Qualitative Methods in Political Science
Co-Leaders: Shamira Gelbman (Wabash College), Sebastian Karcher and Colin Elman (Syracuse University, Qualitative Data Repository and Center for Qualitative and Multi-Method Inquiry), virtual, November 3, 4, and 17, 2023.
The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Co-leaders: Mitchell Brown (Auburn University) & Shane Nordyke (University of South Dakota)
July 27-29, 2023, APSA HQ, Washington DC.
2022
"Teaching Introduction to American Government"
Co-leaders: Casey Dominguez (University of San Diego) & Elizabeth Norell (Chattanooga State Community College)
March 2022, virtual, view the teaching resource collection here
"Teaching Race, Ethnicity & Politics"
Co-leaders: Christopher Stout (Oregon State University) & Natalie Masuoka (University of California, Los Angeles)
April 2022, virtual, view the teaching resource collection here
"Class & Inequality"
Co-leaders: Laura Bucci (St. Joseph University) & Ian Anson (University of Maryland- Baltimore County)
June 16 – June 18, 2022, APSA HQ, Washington, DC
"Teaching Political Science at Community Colleges"
LaTasha DeHaan (Elgin Community College), Josue Franco (Cuyamaca Community College), and Veronica Reyna (Houston Community College), virtual, July 11 - July 29, 2022, view the teaching resource collection here
2020
"Innovative Approaches to Online Learning"
Co-leaders: Rebecca A. Glazier (University of Arkansas at Little Rock) and Veronica Reyna (Houston Community College)
2019
View Comparative Politics Symposium Schedule
March, 2019
Co-leaders: Mitchell Brown (Auburn University) and Biko Koenig(Franklin & Marshall College)
Research Methods Symposium Schedule
Clipperton, et al. (2019) “SOTL Research Design for Assessment of Interventions” (working paper)
2018
“Teaching Political Theory”
November, 2018
Co-leaders: Amber Knight (University of North Carolina, Charlotte) and Lee Trepanier (Saginaw State University)
- Black Political Thought (reading list)
- Mascarenhas, et al. (2019) “The Civic Republican Response to ‘Liberalism and Its Critics'” The Journal of Political Science Education (article)
- The Decline of Liberalism and Civic Republicanism(reading list)
- Disability Theory(reading list)
- Simulation and Debate: Alternative Techniques of Learning and Engagement in Political Theory (starter pack: syllabi and sample exercises)
Spring 2018
Co-leaders: Andrew Rudalevige (Bowdoin College), and Caroline Tolbert (University of Iowa)
2017
"Introducing International Relations"
Spring 2017
Co-leaders: Victor Asal (University at Albany, SUNY) and Joyce Kaufman (Whittier College)