This Statistics 100 project has students develop an interesting question and analyze it with either an existing dataset or an original study. Students create a poster and display their results in a setting that approximates an academic conference.
If killing one person for his organs saves two dying patients in need of organ transplants, it is worth doing? Thought experiments like this can be used during lecture to teach political theory.
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.
This open-ended project sends groups of students to interview non-profit or community organizations dealing with racial, ethnic or migration issues. Groups write final papers integrating their own and other groups' experiences, in addition to the class readings.
Student are challenged to think about the meaning of democracy by evaluating whether section is democratic. This discussion led to the installation of several semester-long democratic tools.
This activity involves learning through "speed dating." The activity centered on the question: how are conceptual and classic understandings of the state (or polis) complicated by globalization and immigration?
