Politics, Groups, and Identities, managed by the Western Political Science Association, is one of political science’s leading academic journals. The journal editors put together a micro-syllabus and an accompanying introduction, published in the Washington Post’s “Monkey Cage.” The reading list is un-gated and free to read through August 2020. “Here’s How to Teach Black Lives…
The public outcry following the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Sean Reed, and countless others, the numerous images capturing police brutality, and the Executive Branch’s activation of the Insurrection Act of 1807 to mobilize federal forces against American protestors, invites scholars, educators and the public to reconsider the standard relationship between state,…
Ajay Verghese on the continued importance of foundational texts in the political science classroom.
William Winecoff’s exercise asks students to simulate the negotiation process of the eurozone sovereign debt crisis of 2010-2012. Students represent different countries and institutions involved in the crisis and seek to reach agreement. This follows two lectures on the subject, as well as several sets of readings, so that they have the relevant background information….
Eric Loepp shares his Spring 2020 survey results covering student experiences with the sudden transition to online learning.
Charmaine N. Willis and Reyhan Topal offer graduate teaching assistants strategies to manage their dual role as educator and student.
PhD Candidate Rachel Torres explains how to turn your course into a podcast. More here.
Rebecca Kreitzer offers advice to moving your course online. Read more here.
The Families First Coronavirus Response Act, signed into law on March 27, 2020, provides some support for higher education institutions and students. For higher education, notable provisions include: 1. Funding for Higher Education to Respond to Coronavirus The legislation includes $14 billion for higher education institutions to respond to the coronavirus. Institutions can use a…
A pandemic sweeps the country, and you find yourself transitioning to an online learning management system when for half a semester, your classes met on campus. You haven’t trained to be an online teacher, but now you are required to teach online. How do you do your work, support your students, and get to the end of the semester intact? This cheat-sheet offers some suggestions to get you going, but by no means does it cover the nuances of online instruction. Let’s just get to the end of the semester!
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