Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis Cengage Unlimited Exploration was created by Sandy Keeter—professor in the Information Technology Department at Seminole State College in Florida. Career readiness is something we try to infuse into our courses wherever we can so our students can be ready to successfully apply the concepts from class in the real world. Cengage Unlimited includes […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesUpdated: 9/11/2023 This Unlimited Exploration was created by professor Tracy Daly from Cal State San Marcos, Azusa Pacific University, Miramar College. If your students are taking a Nutrition course and looking for resources to explore specific topics further, here are some nutrition resources I’ve picked from the Cengage Unlimited catalog. Title: Nutrition Concepts […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesBy: 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 their careers. To reduce this worry, the Cengage Unlimited Career Center can not only help find careers that students want after graduation, but also […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesAuthor: 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. Seth Masket’s piece in Pacific Standard, “The Crisis in Political Science Education.” Dr. Masket writes: “Professors are increasingly finding that their commitment to non-partisan […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesAuthor: 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 are structured to focus more on national politics and institutions. But local politics is FASCINATING and relevant to students’ lives – on many issues […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesAuthor: 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 in Esquire points out, the show opens with a history too few Americans know, the Tulsa Massacre of 1921. The opening episode shows planes dropping […]
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAuthor: 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 past decade, written 100 years from now, many described the decade by its massive racial, economic and political divisions. This exercise got me thinking about how one […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesAuthor: 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 Politics coming up. I’ll think more about my syllabus as the semester approaches, but I’ve already started thinking about how I might rework my […]
