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Students engage in cultural and linguistic immersion through virtual reality (VR) film narratives in a beginner’s French class. Introduction: This class is a second semester beginning French class. To encourage student’s engagement, the instructors turned...

This semester-long simulation provides a practical, hands-on experience to help prepare law students for their transition into private practice and the business world. Hear Professor Presser talk about his prize winning activity: Goal: To provide students...

This activity exposes first-time graduate researchers to all stages of the research process through sourcing leads from fellow classmates. Goal: To create a collective research environment –otherwise known as "crowd researching". Background: This activity...

Students learn about sustainable development and risk management through action learning – applying concepts to real world organizations and discussing ideas with peers. Goals: To help students cultivate the skills necessary to develop a risk management...

Students visited a variety of community institutions across the neighborhood and contributed pictures and observations to an online map of Dorchester. Goals: The primary goals of the activity were three-fold. First, the digital ethnographic map provided...

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...

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...

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...

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. Course: H156 Research Schools Goals 1) To provide students with feedback on their outlines 2) To give...

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...