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Students in a course on the brain and social interaction visit the museum housing Phineas Gage’s skull and discuss it as a case study of the effects of brain injury on social behavior. Goals: To introduce students to the relationship between brain damage...

Students develop a greenhouse gas inventory and reduction plan for a business, non-profit, government entity, or other institution by working with the organization to understand their sources of emissions and find practical methods of reducing them. Goals...

Students visit the Old Burial Ground near Harvard Square to learn about early American gravestones and the cultural and artistic traditions that affected them. Goals: Students will learn about the religious purposes and meanings of the visual features and...

Oftentimes there are challenging situations that arise in supervisory relationships. This activity has students work in small groups to develop strategies to handle such situations. Goals: Develop supervisor strategies for a variety of challenging...

In SCRB 167, students learn about patients’ experience of stem cell-related diseases and therapies through visits from patients and their caregivers. Goal/s: Provide students with an empathetic understanding of patients’ experience of their disease and...

Students learn about Boston, urban life, and social change from guest lectures by local practitioners in the policy, business, and nonprofit sectors. Goals: Provide students insights into how individuals shape their urban environment by engaging them in...

This activity is designed to assess students’ understanding of the course learning goals by engaging the students in an active, individualistic question and answer session. It provides the instructor with valuable insights about his/her students’ learning...

In this short warm up activity, students share current events with the class and briefly discuss the issue. The activity promotes student engagement in the classroom and encourages students to be informed on current international affairs. Goals: (1) To...

In Psychology of the Political Left and Right, Sasha Kimel challenges her students to create a blog post that helps develop their awareness of how the political divide affects one's psychological processes, like behaviors, thoughts, feelings, and more...

This activity uses a bag of differently-sized candies to get at the concept of bias in sampling. This activity comes to us from Andrew Gelman. The original activity text is below, and a link to the activity is here. ---------------------------------------...