Students analyze musical themes from "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring", first as a partnered homework assignment, then during a class discussion, and finally on their own as they passed by in the film.
This activity teaches skills in critical assessment of the peer-reviewed published literature. It focuses on analysis of clinical trials in mental health, but the principles and methods are readily generalizable to other scientific literature. The “Smackdown” approach represents an augmentation of the traditional “journal club” mode of teaching critical scientific reading skills.
Students in a course on human usability of websites implement a semester-long project to analyze and propose a redesign of an existing badly-designed website.
Students created videos describing their final projects on language and identity in Latin America so that their peers could view them outside of class and provide feedback.
In this online course, students learn about direct and indirect pronouns through examining a French song, which they analyze using collaborative software.
In this activity, students debated topics in science and technology from the perspective of a stakeholder during a particular period in 20th century American history. While this structure was used for all three debates, this posting will draw from one debate in particular, the 1923 immigration committee role play.
In this activity, students will have an opportunity to debate current controversial issues in biotechnology from the point of view of a stakeholder group.