Philosophy and Methods of the Social Sciences

This activity asks students to take quotations from authors and pin the tail on the donkey: Which author said what? The discussion that follows can be illuminating. Ahead of time, the instructor writes some ventriloquized remarks that reflect what the...

This activity gets students in an active frame of mind at the start of section. If section meets a long time from the last lecture (say, for a Tuesday-Thursday lecture schedule, the relevant section meets on successive Mondays), the instructor can get...