Category Archives: Social Sciences

Senior Seminar in Political Science

Taught by: Molly Shanley The Course What is your Senior Seminar in Political Science about? The topics of the seminar vary from year to year, they deal with the intersection of feminist theory and public policy issues. In recent years … Continue reading

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Anthropology Goes to the Movies: Film, Video, and Ethnography

ANTH 263 Taught by: Collen Ballerino Cohen The Course What is your course about? I was inspired to think about employing digital video editing in my course on ethnographic film through the Mellon Teaching with Technology grant. Previous support from … Continue reading

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Results on the Fly: In-class surveys using Google Docs

Econ 209 Taught by: Paul Ruud The Course What is the course in which you use instructional technologies about? Tell us about its origin, goals and objectives. I use instructional technologies in several courses, but especially in a course introducing … Continue reading

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Blogging in an Introductory Psychology Course

PSYC 105 Taught by: Nicholas de Leeuw The Course What is the course in which you use instructional technologies about? Tell us about its origin, goals and objectives. I am using a blog in my Introductory Psychology course. This is … Continue reading

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Environmental Risks & Breast Cancer

STS 399 Taught by: Janet Gray The Course The goal of the course was to create an interactive, informational CD on environmental risks and breast cancer, an area that is not commonly addressed in much of the public discourse about … Continue reading

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Digital Underground

GEOL/PHYS 241 Taught by: Brian McAdoo The Course What is your course “Digital Underground” about? Digital Underground: Field Geophysics uses state-of-the-art electromagnetic techniques to identify forgotten graves by measuring very subtle changes in the soil properties. These graveyards tend to … Continue reading

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Environment and Land Use Planning

GEOG/GEOL 355 Taught by: Mary Ann Cunningham The Course What is your course “Environment and Land Use Planning” about? In Environment and Land Use Planning I try to give students an opportunity to work on real problems of land use … Continue reading

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Using Video in Athletics Coaching

Taught by: James McCowan The Course What is the course in which you use instructional technologies about? Tell us about its origin, goals and objectives. Varsity Athletics, specifically Cross Country and Track & Field would be the area of student … Continue reading

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Visualizing the Adolescent in American Society

EDUC 263 Taught by: Tracey Holland The Course What is the course in which you use instructional technologies about? Tell us about its origin, goals and objectives. The course is Adolescent in American Society, a 200-level course offered by the … Continue reading

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Democratic Engagement

POLI 375 Taught by: Sarita Gregory The Course What is the course in which you use instructional technologies about? Tell us about its origin, goals and objectives. Democratic Engagement is a course that encourages students to venture beyond Vassar gates. … Continue reading

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