How did race, gender, employment, and other characteristics condition people's responses to revolutionary activities during the American Revolution? In this activity, students take on different personas and consider whether they would support a boycott of British goods. 

In this activity, students examine posters to identify different viewpoints on the Affordable Care Act.

By using a case study, students identify different interests that can compete when formulating health policy. 

After reading Thomas More’s Utopia, students debate topics related to the text in order to understand More’s use of rhetoric. 

In this activity, students discuss three religious traditions of medieval China to consolidate knowledge and bring out the similarities and contrasts.

In this activity, Nicole Deterding used a case study in her Sociology of Education section to integrate and apply theories of different types of capital (human, social, and cultural) and to clarify student understanding. 

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

In her sociology sections, Nicole Deterding used a controversial pop-sociology article written by Kay Hymowitz, the author of Manning Up: How the Rise of Women Has Turned Men into Boys, as a case study for Professor Mary Brinton's theory on the relationship between institutions and individual behaviors and actions.

In her classes, Professor Judith Ryan teaches students close reading by having them identify the important words in a text as a class.  

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.

In Animal Cognition, Dr. Irene Pepperberg's students learn how to evaluate scholarly work on animal cognition by trying to think from the animal's point of view of the experiment.  

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.

For Alan Aspuru-Guzik's course on Quantum Chemistry, students are assessed on the material through "Concept Tests."

EMR16: Real-Life Statistics: Your Chance for Happiness (or Misery) is taught around real-life modules, and all major assignments apply statistical topics directly to the real-life topics.