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Humanities

• Externalizing Analyses and Bridging Sub-disciplines, Molly Babel (Linguistics)
• A New Way to Appreciate Cicero's Style, Yelena Baraz (Classics)
• Creating a Research Community, Natalia Cecire (English)
• Fun with Phonetics on a Saturday: Bringing Linguistics Up to Date with the Other Sciences, Charles Chang (Linguistics)
• Monstrous Texts: Overcoming Resistance to Literature, Mai-Lin Cheng (English)
• References without Referents (Or, How My Class Learned to Start Worrying and Love Thomas Pynchon, Sarah Chihaya (Comparative Literature)
• Self-Portraiture as a Teaching Tool, William Coleman (History of Art)
• Ethical Engagement: Practical Solutions for Addressing Plagiarism in the Writing Classroom, Catherine Cronquist Browning (English)
• Re-Membering Our Histories, Re-Visioning Our Histories, Re-Writing Our Selves, Huma Dar (South and South East Asian Studies)
• Reciting Latin Verse, Edan Dekel (Classics)
• The Theory Scare: Teaching Students How to Grasp Abstract Ideas, Polina Dimova (Comparative Literature)
• Nonstandard Approaches to Post-modernist Literature, Kate Elkins (Comparative Literature)
• Critical Objectivity and Sentence Style Improvement, Monika Gehlawat (English)
• Poetry and the Scientific Method, Hillary Gravendyk (English)
• An Epic in Miniature: Collaborations on a Thesis, Lael Gold (Comparative Literature)
• Playing Teacher: Adding Predictive Power to Students’ Toolboxes, Emily Hamilton (History)
• Anatomy of an Essay, Lynn Huang (English)
• The Fourth Crusade Charges into the Classroom, Kathryn Jasper (History)
• The Renaissance Lyric Poem as Pop Culture, Kimberly Johnson (English)
• Teaching History Students to Read Between the Lines, Lisa Kaborycha (History)
• (Feminist) Dreams Really Do Come True, Anastasia Kayiatos (Slavic)
• Understanding the Lives of Ancient Egyptians, Deanna Kiser (Near Eastern Studies)
• Multi-Sensory Windows into Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology, Stephanie Langin-Hooper (Near Eastern Studies)
• Journals: The Key to Small Group Participation, Heather McCarty (History)
• The Undergraduate Research Paper, Karen McNeill (History)
• Creative Writing and the Horizon of Expectations, Carl Olsen (Scandinavian)
• "Telling" Tales: The Quest for Meaning in Indian Folklore, Vasudha Paramasivan (South and Southeast Asian Studies)
• Teaching the Ancient Greek Optative and Subjunctive by Staging Cultural Practice, Timothy Pepper (Classics)
• Making It Fun: Framing Literary Discussion as a Social Practice, James Ramey (Comparative Literature)
• A New Approach to Teaching and Learning, Timothy Randazzo (Ethnic Studies)
• The Challenge of Thinking Historically, Alejandro Reyes Arias (Latin American Studies)
• Revitalizing & Contemporizing Ancient Literature, Heidi Saleh (Near Eastern Studies)
• Teaching the “Errors of the Past,” Matthew Sargent (History)
• Is Ariel the Same as the Little Mermaid?, Selby Schwartz (Comparative Literature)
• Creating Coherence with Conceptual Maps, Edith Replogle Sheffer (History)
• The Campus as Laboratory: Teaching Students to Think Historically About the Built Environment, William Scott (History)
• A People’s History of the English Language: Dialect Communities, Matthew Sergi (English)
• Experiments in Communicative Latin, William Short (Classics)
• Creativity in the Composition Classroom, Nichole Sterling (Scandinavian)
• Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Literature but Were Afraid to Ask the Saturday Evening Post: or, How Literature is Like Math, Mayumi Takada (English)
• The Power of Observation in situ (by Proxy), Justin Underhill (History of Art)
• Sources into Evidence; or, Rethinking the Research Requirement in Reading and Composition Courses, Leonard von Morzé (English)
• The End of Romance: Teaching Students to Rethink ‘Wild’ Africa, Amy Wolfson (African American Studies)
• Becoming a Better Socrates, Benjamin Yost (Rhetoric)
• From Description to Analysis, Andrea Zemgulys (English)
• Free in Theory: Teaching Gender in Historical Perspective, Gina Zupsich (French)

Music, Film and Performance Studies

• Musical Form and Active Learning, Laura Basini (Music)
• Writers into Readers, Charles Scott Combs (Film Studies)
• Hearing John Cage: An Approach to Introducing Ambient Music, Brian Current (Music)
• I Love to Listen to Music, But I Don't Know Anything About It, Melina Esse (Music)
• Teaching Basic Musicianship: An Ode to Chaos, Emily Frey (Music)
• Cultural and Communicative Approaches to Teaching Music, Mathew Gelbart (Music)
• Bringing Opera Closer to Home, Michael Markham (Music)
• Music and Multi Media: Staging Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring, Anna Nisnevich (Music)
• If 'Writing about Music is Like Dancing about Architecture,' Maybe it is Time to Draw: Using Visual Aids to Introduce Musical and Stylistic Analysis, Francesca Rivera (Music)
• Musical Representation and Musorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, Holly Watkins (Music)

Quantitative Fields

• Mathematics : The Universal Language of Science, Antar Bandyopadhyay (Mathematics & Statistics)
• When Wrong is All Right, Gautam Borooah (Mathematics)
• Using Prediction, Competition, and Reflection to Make Connections in Calculus II, Danielle Champney (Education)
• The Meaning Behind the Symbols, Aubrey Clayton (Mathematics)
• Breaking the Mathematical Language Barrier, Alexander Diesl (Mathematics & Statistics)
• Hide and Go Seek, or Could We Play with Accounting?, Tatiana Fedyk (Business Administration)
• The Challenges of Teaching in Summer Session, Conrad Hengesbach (Mathematics)
• Incorporating Active Learning and Technology into Teaching Economics, Marquise McGraw (Economics)
• Dispelling the Fear of Proofs, Ari Nieh (Mathematics)
• Demystifying the Thought Process, Viswanath Sankaran (Mathematics & Statistics)
• The Zen of Reductions (How to Understand Computers by Becoming One), Ajeet Shankar (Computer Science)

Sciences

• Getting in Touch with Your Inner Physicist, Badr Albanna (Physics)
• Training Molecular MacGyvers Using the Immunologist’s Toolbox, Nicholas Arpaia (Molecular & Cell Biology)
• Current-Literature Problem Solving as a Connection to the Real World: How Solving a Problem in the Classroom Expanded Professor-Graduate Student Mentorship from the Laboratory into the Classroom, Suzanne Blum (Chemistry)
• Helping Students Learn (and Effectively Use) What They Already Know, Paul Bruno (Physics; Home Department Education)
• Teaching Young Scientists to Speak the Way They Think, Seemay Chou (Molecular & Cell Biology)
• Improving Biology Papers through Peer Review, Christopher Clark (Integrative Biology)
• Teaching by (Bad) Example, Julia Comerford (Astronomy)
• Slimemolds vs. the MCATs, J. Peter Coppinger (Plant and Microbial Biology)
• Teaching an Uncommon Sense, Sarah Cunningham (Integrative Biology)
• Kinesthesis in Science: Where Red Rover Meets Quantum Mechanics, Steve Dawson (Astronomy)
• Undergraduate Astronomy Journal Club, Louis-Benoit Desroches (Astronomy)
• Teaching Alice, William Dichtel (Chemistry)
• Motivating a Broad Audience with Research, Sophie Dumont (Molecular and Cell Biology)
• Science Education: Focus on Core Analytical Skills, James Endres (Molecular and Cell Biology)
• Building the Big Picture, Alejandra Figueroa-Claravega (Molecular & Cell Biology)
• “Is This Right?” Building Confidence in Scientific Reasoning, Francesca Fornasini (Astronomy)
• Teaching Mitosis and Meiosis Using Metaphor and Play-Acting, Benjamin Freedman (Molecular and Cell Biology)
• Using a Focal Organism as a Teaching Tool in General Biology, Maria Goodrich (Integrative Biology)
• Development of an Inquiry-Based Activity from a Content Intensive Curriculum, Amanda Heddle (Environmental Science, Policy and Management)
• Interaction and Integration: How to Teach Students with Varying Expertise, Robert Held (Bioengineering)
• An Effective Review Session (without Teaching to the Test), Stacy Jackson (Energy and Resources Group)
• TALC: Individualized Assistance through Collaborative Learning, John Johnson (Astronomy)
• Teaching to Different Modes of Learning, Alexander Kauffman (Integrative Biology)
• Bringing Concepts to Life through Field Trips, Allison Kidder (Environmental Science, Policy, and Management)
• The Kitchen as a Laboratory, Naomi Kohen (Material Science and Engineering)
• Understanding Long-Term Ecological Change with Tree Rings, Kevin Krasnow (Environmental Science, Policy, and Management)
• Bringing Astronomy Down to Earth: A Teaching Strategy That Helps Develop Intuition, Aaron Lee (Astronomy)
• Instilling Effective Study Skills in Students: Start Early, Know Your Weaknesses, Jennifer McGuire (Integrative Biology)
• Utilizing a Unifying Experiment to Enhance Conceptual Integration, Jason Ng (Vision Science)
• An Example of the Use of Frameworks in Skills-Based Learning, Terry O'Brien (Integrative Biology)
• Social Science Meets Physical Science, Jessica Owley (Environmental Science, Policy and Management)
• Lessons from a Lesson on Stellar Evolution, Kathryn Peek (Astronomy)
• Solar System on a Laptop: Visualizing the Dynamic Universe, Daniel Perley (Astronomy)
• Improving Laboratory Courses, Nicholas L. Pivonka (Chemistry)
• Transforming Quizzes into Teaching and Learning Tools, Jennifer Powell (Molecular and Cell Biology)
• Players in the Pathway, Susan Schwab (Molecular and Cell Biology)
• Beyond Bean Counting: A New Laboratory to Teach the Concepts of Microevolution, Sonja Schwartz (Environmental Science, Policy, and Management)
• Encouraging Deep Learning in an Introductory Course, Jessica Shade (Integrative Biology)
• Emphasizing Concepts in a Yeast Genetics Laboratory, Elizabeth Shank (Molecular and Cell Biology)
• Designing a Better Laboratory Course, Richard Keith Slotkin (Plant and Microbial Biology)
• A Pre-Lab Assignment for a More Efficient and Effective Laboratory, Jessica Smith (Chemistry)
• Linking Theory and Experiement in a Biochemistry Lab, Giulietta Spudich (Molecular and Cell Biology)
• A Voice in the Sciences, Ryan Steele (Chemistry)
• Making the Connections: Dissecting Fatty Acid Biosynthesis, Nicholas Stephanopoulos (Chemistry)
• Stretching the Field of View, James Su (Vision Science)
• Groupwritten, Meredith Thomsen (Integrative Biology)
• Chemistry: The Other Foreign Language, Joel Thornton (Chemistry)
• Teaching Students How to Create a Picture Worth a Thousand Words, Julie Ullman (Molecular and Cell Biology)
• Understanding Biological Shape with Pipe Cleaners: An Exercise in Integrating Multiple Learning Styles, Jann Vendetti (Integrative Biology)
• How to Encourage Lecture Attendance through Discussion Activities, Mathew Wedel (Integrative Biology)
• Using the Peer-Review Process to Stimulate Classroom Discussion, Bryan Zeitler (Molecular and Cell Biology)

Social Sciences

• Creating Collaborative In-class Activities: Minimizing the Diffusion of Responsibility and Disinterest during Group Work, Sereeta Alexander (Education)
• Negotiating European Integration Yourself: Role Playing, Simulations, and Counterfactuals in Teaching Political Science, Sener Akturk (Political Science)
• Research Methods Applied to Public Health Topics: Using Breakout Groups to Foster Problem Solving and Critical Thinking, Jennifer Bensadoun & Alexander Minnis (Epidemiology)
• Increased Class Participation: Accommodating for Diverse Styles and Skills, Elzbieta Benson (Sociology)
• Helping Students Understand Prejudice, Helen Boucher (Psychology)
• Teaching Students with Diverse Backgrounds, Matias Cattaneo (Economics)
• Encouraging and Affirming Diverse Forms of Class Participation, Paul Dosh (Political Science)
• Reading Theory with Courage: One Way to Teach Critical Reading Skills, Ermine Fidan Elcioglu (Sociology)
• Maximizing the Impact of GSI Feedback through Reflections on Writing, Rebecca Elliott (Sociology)
• Providing Skills, Not Summaries: Improving Reading Comprehension in Political Theory, Mark Fisher (Political Science)
• Do Our Students Understand the Relevance of What We are Teaching Them?, Natalia Ferretti (Political Science)
• Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries through Drama, Oron Frenkel, (Public Health)
• Developing a Substantive Understanding of the Concepts of Normality and Pathology, David Gard (Psychology)
• Finding Ways that Everyone Can Contribute Creatively: Using Visual Learning Techniques and Small-Group Exercises to Promote Cooperative Learning, Kenneth Haig (Political Science)
• From Theory to Obama: Innovative Teaching Methods to Increase Participation, Zoe Harris (Public Health)
• Teaching Bourdieu: Observing the Habitus in Sites of Consumption, William Hayes (Sociology)
• Reversing Roles: How would Your Students Devise a Section Lesson Plan?, Veronica Herrera (Political Science)
• Getting on the Same Page, Susan Hicks (Geography)
• Teaching Critical Skills in Legal Studies, Sonya Lebsack (Legal Studies)
• Introducing Course Themes through Experiential Learning: A First-Section Activity, Naomi Leite (Anthropology)
• It Said What?: Reading Critically for Bias and Point of View, Amy Lerman (Political Science)
• Encouraging Critical Thinking through Exam Preparation, Sarah Macdonald (Sociology)
• An Exercise in Writing Descriptive Field Notes for Anthropological Research, Jelani Mahiri (Anthropology)
• “Why Don’t They Just Go Get Help Themselves?” Illustrating the Challenges of Accessing Social Services, Jennifer Morazes, MSW (Social Welfare)
• Applying Economic Concepts to Environmental Problems, Shanthi Nataraj (Agricultural & Resource Economics; Home Department Economics)
• Incorporating Practice into Theory-Based Curriculum, Lyn Paleo (Public Health)
• Bringing Home the Bacon: Navigating the Congressional Budget Process, Kathryn Pearson (Political Science)
• Teaching the 3-Speed Class, Jason Purcell (Political Science)
• Theory as a Map, Gretchen Purser (Sociology)
• Learning by Doing: Using Simulations to Teach Political Science, David Radwin (Political Science)
• Not Exactly Dick and Jane: Using Children’s Books to Make Theory Accessible, Anne Marie Richard (Education)
• Improving Writing Skills and Alleviating Grading Confusion, Christopher Rider (Business Administration)
• Conquering “40% of the Grade”: Interactive Strategies for Helping Students Prepare for Comprehensive Final Exams, Wendy Sinek (Political Science)
• A “Tradeoffs” Method for Soliciting Student Feedback, Sean Tanner (Public Policy)
• How to 'Show' Sociology in an Academic World of 'Telling', Ana Villa-Lobos (Sociology)
• Drawing to Learn: One Way to Teach to Multiple Learning Styles, Laurel Westbrook (Sociology)
• Practice Matters: The Design and Teaching of an Introductory Clinical Seminar, Christine Zalecki (Psychology)

   

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