In this activity, students will be able to map the history of a student/campus organization, in which they are involved. In doing so, students will relate the development of their specific organization to the wider trends surrounding civic engagement and education covered in the assigned readings throughout the semester.

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This group discussion format can be used in a week that covers several big concepts, each of which can be discussed along a similar ("parallel") sequence of discussion questions.  The concepts in this particular class are: Wisdom of crowds, Heuristic decision-making, Groupthink, and Cooperation.

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In this activity, students read each other's outlines on their final course paper and then met in small groups to give each other constructive feedback. 

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This activity asks students to take quotations from authors and pin the tail on the donkey: Which author said what? The discussion that follows can be illuminating.

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During this activity, students build listening comprehension and cultural knowledge through Portuguese-language music.

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Students learn about Boston, urban life, and social change from guest lectures by local practitioners in the policy, business, and nonprofit sectors.

Is it better to cooperate or defect?  In this game, students participate in a real life prisoner's dilemma game.

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