Students imagine themselves to be policy advisers and write a policy memorandum on government transparency and secrecy to the imagined Transparency Reform Council.... Read more about Policy Memorandum and Government Transparency

To gain practical experience in investment situations, students pitch real estate investments to their peers and determine where to allocate their capital.... Read more about Real Estate Investment Pitch Project

Throughout the term students prepared three case studies in order to engage with information on the American legal system.... Read more about Crime, Justice, and the American Legal System: Case Study Preparation

In Chuck Freilich's Freshman Seminar, "Comparative National Security of Middle Eastern Countries," each student writes four action memos for world leaders in the Middle East on security topics.... Read more about Action Memos for World Leaders

Students were asked to produce a multimedia and historical analysis of the archives of Saudi Aramco World. It aimed to bring historical and secondary sources alive by putting students directly in contact with primary, archival sources and asking them to critically engage with those materials.

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In Swedish Ba, Ursula Lindqvist has students lead discussion on a current topic relevant to children's issues.  This course focuses on children's literature and culture.... Read more about Leading Swedish Class

Students in Caroline Light's general education course, Sex and the Citizen, create five-minute visual essays in response to Brenda Weber's, Makeover Nation. In order to do this assignment, students must complete the assigned reading and gain familiarity with iMovie, Prezi, or PowerPoint. These visual essays or makeover parodies are meant to address issues of identity and citizenship central to the course.... Read more about Visual Essays and Makeover Parodies

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.

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A three day simulation of the Parliament of World Religions teaches students about the role of faith groups in addressing climate change.

Goals:

• to provide an opportunity to study religious teachings related to nature and the environment
• to investigate ways these teachings might contribute to practical policies and actions by persons and communities of faith in the face of destructive climate change
• to intensify the learning experience by simulating the work of delegates to a real world...

Student groups are each assigned a region experiencing a humanitarian crisis for research. They produce a visual timeline representing the processes precipitating and leading up to the crisis and the relief efforts undertaken in response. As a final project, each group produces an infographic representing a theme or a typology it observes across the different crises explored throughout the timeline exercise.

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