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Student Perspective: Using the Career Center

By: Andrew Boeres, Wittenberg University student and Cengage intern The majority (77%) of current and former college students, like myself, are worried about having the skills needed for post-graduation in...

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Professors and Partisanship in Intro to American Politics

Author: Emily Farris, Texas Christian University This past spring, I opened my Introduction to American Politics asking my students to come to the first day having read the syllabus and Dr....

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Introduction to American (Local) Politics

Author: Emily Farris, Texas Christian University In an introductory American Politics class, it can often be difficult to try to fit in local politics, and often times, most textbooks and classes...

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Learning From and About the Tulsa Massacre of 1921

Author: Emily Farris, Texas Christian University HBO’s Watchmen (a retelling of a 1986 DC Comics series, if you don’t know) might be a surreal and alternative history, but as Matt Miller...

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Political Science Students: Questions To Think About

Reading Time: < 1 minute Author: Emily Farris, Texas Christian University Politico asked some of the top historians to write a paragraph from the future, describing the contemporary moment in time. In their descriptions of the...

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Assessing Students in Introduction to American Politics

Author: Emily Farris, Texas Christian University As we approach the end of the fall and start thinking about our Spring classes, I’m thinking about my two sections of Introduction to American...

Sharing Political Science Teaching Resources

Sharing Political Science Teaching Resources

Reading Time: < 1 minute Author: Emily Farris, Texas Christian University I am a syllabus and teaching resources hoarder. If you open my Dropbox folder system, you’ll see way too many documents of syllabi and...

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Constitution Trivia: Test Your Knowledge

Reading Time: < 1 minute How well do your students know some of the history surrounding the constitution? We’ve put together our own 10 question quiz that you can feel free to either use in...

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