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

Each week in "Pathways through the Andes," students examine and discuss 10-15 objects from the collection of the Harvard Peabody Museum.... Read more about Analyzing Andean Artifacts

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.

... Read more about Bad Site Projects

Students learn about the importance of gestures in baroque opera through viewing and practicing them.

Goals:

• to teach students that baroque opera involved body movement as well as music, and that physical motion and musical material were intimately linked in the 17th and 18th centuries
• to demonstrate how stage gesture can affect one's interpretation of an opera scene.

Class: Music 97a: Music History and Repertory: Medieval to Baroque

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This project has students work in pairs explore the botany of Harvard Square.  Students find a plant-related item to research and prepare a an abstract, a presentation, and a written report.... Read more about Botany of Harvard Square

In SLS 12, Erin Blevins engages her students by bringing in actual fish in order to start a discussion of adaptation and evolution.... Read more about Bringing Objects to Class

In this three-stage simulation, the Chinese government considers the reform of its re-education through labor regime.... Read more about Chinese Re-Education through Labor Simulation