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 […]
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAuthor: 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 teaching ideas from various folks over the years. I’m a firm believer in not reinventing the wheel when it comes to teaching resources. One of […]
Reading Time: < 1 minuteHow 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 class or embed into your online course. Your students will receive a score but this is for practice and fun. We’ve selected some of our […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes[Reading Time – 1 minutes 24 seconds] Virtually all security professionals agree that the most secure means of managing all of our long, complex, and unique passwords that we have for all of our different accounts (you do use long, complex, and unique passwords, don’t you?) is to use a password manager. But a just-published […]
