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Political Economy of Africa Undergraduate Summer course syllabus
Published: September 26, 2023
Contributor:Catherine Boone
Content Type:Teaching Material
For a class on contemporary Africa with a political economy focus, here is a syllabus for 12, three-hour lectures (combined with 12, ninety minute discussion sessions with a TA. Because it’s a summer course, the reading is lighter than usual. Keywords: Africa, African Politics, political economy, development, Global South, political economy
Call for Proposals: Teaching Qualitative Methods in Political Science
Published: September 2, 2023
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Content Type:Blog Post
Deadline Extended to October 3, 2023!! APSA Teaching & Learning Symposium November 3, 4, and 17, 2023 The American Political Science Association’s (APSA) Teaching and Learning program is pleased to announce a call for proposals for a small cohort of political scientists to participate in a virtual teaching and learning symposium in November 2023. APSA’s teaching symposia provide a workshop environment where people with similar goals can come together to share their own practices and research related to teaching and…
Politics Considered Podcast
Published: May 19, 2023
Contributor:William Gallagher
Content Type:Teaching Material
The primary audience for this podcast is undergraduate Poli Sci students. Bill discusses political issues and provides background and context. He welcomes any educator who would like to be interviewed on the podcast to contact him at william.gallagher@solacc.edu Podcast Info: Twitter: @politicscons Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/politics-considered/id1680953386 Podbean: https://politicsconsidered.podbean.com/ Spotify:
Political Science Internship – Syllabus and Assignment Prompts
Published: May 19, 2023
Contributor:Kevin Lucas
Content Type:Teaching Material
Syllabus for Political Science Internship course, description of student assignments, and prompts for student progress reports.
Researching with Undergraduates: Strategies and Best Practices
Published: April 25, 2023
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Content Type:Blog Post
Research collaboration between political science faculty and undergraduate students is often identified as a goal of instructors and departments, but can be difficult to successfully implement. As part of National Undergraduate Research Week (April 17 - April 21, 2023), APSA and Pi Sigma Alpha convened a webinar illuminating best practices, unexpected challenges, and the benefits to supporting undergraduate research. On April 21, 2023 we heard from faculty with decades of combined experience designing and executing undergraduate-faculty research projects, mentoring…
Journal Article Analysis Workbook and PowerPoint Walkthrough
Published: April 12, 2023
Contributor:Josue Franco
Content Type:Teaching Material
In 2007, I am sitting in a class with a little over half dozen junior-level transfer students at UC Merced, a loud “Wham!” echoes throughout the room. With that, our professor walked out of our undergraduate economics course after telling us that we needed to learn how to read journal articles. Our initial reaction was shock. And our second reaction was anger. Anger that we were told to do something, without being given guidance or instruction on how to do…
Introduction to Congress Syllabus with Associated Podcast
Published: April 11, 2023
Contributor:Kevin Kosar
Content Type:Teaching Material
This is the syllabus I used in my undergraduate course at CUNY in autumn 2022. The readings very much aimed to give students the tools to understand how Congress functions, and to empower them to be able to read news about Congress and get past the headlines and and editorializing to what really is occurring (e.g., symbolic action, horse-trading, etc.) At the end of the semester, student ratings were quite high. They seemed to enjoy the “realness” of the material.
Presidential Idol Group Presentation
Published: April 3, 2023
Contributor:Michael McConachie
Content Type:Teaching Material
Presidential Idol is a group project presentation that divides the class into groups of five-to-six students. Each group draws an American president (excluding the incumbent one) from a list of presidents created by the instructor. The group then researches the president and prepares a five-to-ten-minute presentation on why the group’s president should be the Presidential Idol. After the presentations, the class votes individually and secretly on which presentation made the best case for their president. The results are announced at…
Call for Proposals: the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Published: March 30, 2023
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Content Type:Blog Post
Application Deadline Extended to - April 26, 2023 The American Political Science Association’s (APSA) Teaching and Learning program is pleased to announce a call for proposals for 15 political scientists to participate in a three-day teaching and learning symposium July 27-29, 2023 at APSA’s headquarters in Washington, DC. APSA’s teaching symposia provide a workshop environment where people with similar goals can come together to share their own practices and research related to teaching AND to create new pedagogical materials. The…
ChatGPT and other Artificial Intelligence Challenges and Opportunities
Published: March 24, 2023
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Content Type:Blog Post
Marjorie R. Hershey, Indiana University - Bloomington This essay will be added to the second edition of Dr. Hershey's ebooklet, How to Teach American Politics (and Other Subjects) Effectively. While this work is in progress, APSA Educate is pleased to feature below. ChatGPT is a specific program of artificial intelligence using a dialogue format (which makes it a “chatbot”). It draws on patterns in the existing information on which it has been trained. It’s a bit like a tremendously more sophisticated…