Assignments and Course Design
Louise Pears, Leeds University, Marine Gueguin, Leeds University, and Harry Swinhoe, Leeds University
The public increasingly relies on podcasts to know important things about the world. Edison …
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Assignments and Course Design
Erica DeBruin, Hamilton College, and Clara Harding, Hamilton College
An essential part of helping students to think like political scientists is teaching them about how research is conducted—including the …
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Assignments and Course Design
Niva Golan-Nadir, University at Albany, State University of New York, and Reichman University
An applied politics workshop that pairs abstract theory of politics with conventional politics provides a textbook …
Assignments and Course Design
Nicholas Kapoor, Fairfield University, and Carrie LeVan, Colby
As students, many of us experienced years of passive learning, where teachers act as the primary agents of education as experts …
Reflections
Adil Yildiz, University of Mississippi
Throughout history, social movements have played an essential role in shaping society and promoting change. From the Women’s Suffrage Movement to the Civil Rights Movement, they have …
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Reflections
Michael Christopher Sardo, [1]
This academic year, I taught AP United States Government and Politics (APUSG) to about sixty high school juniors and seniors. My students are among the nearly three hundred …
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Reflections
Matt Lamb, Texas Tech University
“What is Latinx Politics?”[1] I start the first day of my class “Introduction to Latinx Politics in the United States” with this question. The students don’t …
Reflections
Steven Perry, Rice University
Over the past few years, I have taught a series of undergraduate and graduate courses on policy analysis and methodology, data visualization, and R programing for quantitative analysis. …
Reflections
Cristina Juverdeanu
In academic integrity and assessment and feedback circles, we had merely started talking about the challenges of artificial intelligence (AI) for academic integrity when we were introduced to ChatGPT, the …
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The Teacher-Scholar
Elizabeth A. Bennion, Indiana University South Bend
In the introductory discussion board for my Summer 2023 online U.S. politics course, every student mentioned how divisive politics is today. Many noted that …
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