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.
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 his Bible in the Humanities section, David Weimer had students present a modern object that makes an allusion or reference to the Bible. This activity allows students to explore modern-day understandings of the Bible as they relate to the original text.
In his sections, David Weimer does a weekly "exit poll" where students use the same piece of paper throughout the term to record thoughts at the end of section.
In this activity, David Weimer used different articles on "segregation academies" following Brown v. Board of Education in order to teach students how to evaluate information from a source and consider the origin of the information.
In Law and American Society, Dr. Terry Aladjem's takes his students to visit a prison following a unit on punishment in order to apply theories of punishment to the real world.
Greg Kestin has been working with other staff of Harvard's wildly popular Science and Cooking class to innovative educational videos as a supplement to lecture.
In EPS21, Professor Francis MacDonald takes his students on two short field trips in order to teach them how to make accurate observations and interpret them.
In EPS182, Professor Francis MacDonald's students take a spring break trip to Sicily to study the geology of the region. They later use this information to write mock geology journal articles.
During J-Term prior to Field Geology (EPS74), students live in the Mojave desert for almost three weeks to map different pieces of the area in groups. The data will eventually be compiled into a composite class map.
