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Students experience what it is like to be an expert in a field by focusing their research and writing on a single fairy tale and its adaptations throughout the course of a semester. Goals: To show students how to choose an area of expertise and join in an...

Students learn about taxonomic classification by categorizing fictional animal-like forms into species based on their physical features. Goals: to illustrate the process of taxonomic classification to demonstrate that historical approaches to...

The instructor in a beginning German class wrote and filmed a puppet show for the class, who then created their own puppet shows using the vocabulary they had learned. This exercise fostered comprehension and decreased students’ inhibitions about speaking...

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 present an “elevator pitch” of their paper idea to their peers, and then receive feedback about their idea. Goals: articulate thesis statement more clearly, ensuring students are making an argument about the evidence rather than summarizing...

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...

To gain practical experience in investment situations, students pitch real estate investments to their peers and determine where to allocate their capital. Goals: gain practical decision-making experience by working through real life investment situations...

Students apply what they have learned in the classroom to their own dinner plates by creating a meal based on principles of health and sustainability that are attentive to personal, local, and global considerations. Goals: more deeply understand what...

In this introductory course for psychology undergraduates, students receive constructive feedback on their writing delivered in a format that simulates the peer review process in academia. Students learn about peer review methods and strengthen their...