In Elisa New’s course, Poetry in America, all students must memorize and recite 8-14 lines of poetry.

In this activity, each student brought in a favorite piece of music that had a spiritual meaning to him or her and shared it with the class.

For Professor Kiely’s freshman seminar, the students chose their favorite paintings depicting the life of Jesus and gave presentations about their impressions of the art.

In his biblical Hebrew class, Cian Power constructed various assignments around online recordings of the Bible.

As an instructor of biblical Hebrew, Cian Power had students record themselves reading a part of a Book of Jonah comic every two weeks, send the recording to him, and receive quick feedback.

In her graduate methods class, Rachel Gillett had her students develop their writing skills by using the course authors as models to imitate or avoid.

In her first sections of the semester, Nicole Deterding discusses with her students how to read a sociology article.

In Law and American Society, Professor Terry Aladjem sends out an email following each class with information about the next week's class and a link to supplementary materials.  

In "What is College and What is It For?" students think critically about higher education throughout the semester.  

In EMR16 and Stat139, students periodically do very brief "mini-assignments" which require them to submit or consider something that the instructor incorporates into lecture.

In Swedish Ba, Ursula Lindqvist's students do their writing assignments online. They do blog postings where they respond to certain prompts and react to each other's postings.

In this activity, Swedish Aa students view music videos of Swedish pop songs ("Ingen vill veta" and "Du vill så du kan") to practice helping verbs and as a prompt for in-class language practice.

In Swedish Aa, Ursula Lindqvist and Suzanne Martin used the song "Den första gång jag såg dig" (The First Time I Saw You) by well-known Swedish troubador Birger Sjöberg to help students learn past-tense verbs and about Swedish culture.  

In Swedish Aa, Ursula Lindqvist and Suzanne Martin had students watch a recorded video of the poem "Accounting of Summer" to practice singular and plural nouns, learn new words, experience Swedish poetry, and hear the melodic sound of Swedish.

In Swedish Aa, Ursula Lindqvist and Suzanne Martin have their students watch a commercial for a major Swedish food chain on YouTube in order to practice helping verbs and adjectives while working on listening comprehension and being exposed to Swedish television.