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 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 class "France and the World: Human Rights, Race, and Revolution," Rachel Gillett had small groups work on different questions in order to stimulate discussion.

In their History and Literature Sophomore Tutorial, Rachel Gillett and her co-instructors strengthened student discussions by directly modeling how to have an academic conversation.

Once a month, David Weimer uses critical-thinking prompts in section that students respond to via quick write or partner discussion.

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 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 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 her classes, Professor Judith Ryan uses (or encourages her TFs to use) little strips of paper with words from a literary text in order to get students to explore the functions of individual words in text.  

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 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.