Teaching & Learning Symposia
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Past Events
“Teaching Comparative Politics”
June 3-5, 2019
Co-leaders: Laura Seay (Colby College) and Julie George (Queens College and The Graduate Center, CUNY)
View Comparative Politics Symposium Schedule
“Teaching Research Methods to Undergraduates”
March 14-16, 2019
Co-leaders: Mitchell Brown (Auburn University) and Biko Koenig (Franklin & Marshall College)
Research Methods Symposium Schedule
“Teaching Political Theory”
November 1-4, 2018
Co-leaders: Amber Knight (University of North Carolina, Charlotte) and Lee Trepanier (Saginaw State University)
Workshops: In 2017-2018, APSA’s Centennial Center hosted two-day, teaching workshops for faculty of introductory courses related to American government (led by Andrew Rudalevige, Bowdoin College, and Caroline Tolbert, University of Iowa) and International Relations (led by Victor Asal, University at Albany, SUNY and Joyce Kaufman, Whittier College).

Teaching Resources
Here you will find some of the resources produced by symposium participants.
- Black Political Thought (reading list)
- Mascarenhas, et al. (2019) “The Civic Republican Response to ‘Liberalism and Its Critics'” The Journal of Political Science Education (article)
- The Decline of Liberalism and Civic Republicanism (reading list)
- Disability Theory (reading list)
- Simulation and Debate: Alternative Techniques of Learning and Engagement in Political Theory (starter pack: syllabi and sample exercises)
- Clipperton, et al. (2019) “SOTL Research Design for Assessment of Interventions” (working paper)
- Theories of a Constructed Political Economy (reading list)
- Utopian Thought: Race, Class, Gender, Disability (reading list & essay questions)