Teaching Symposia

Centennial Center Teaching & Learning Symposia

APSA’s Teaching & Learning Symposia, three-day events held at APSA’s headquarters in Washington, DC, provide a unique opportunity for faculty with similar teaching interests to present on timely substantive issues in the field, share best practices, and develop new teaching resources. In the coming year, the Center will host three symposia focusing on topics related to political theory, research methods for undergraduates, and comparative politics.

The first symposium, focused on political theory, and led by Amber Knight (University of North Carolina, Charlotte) and Lee Trepanier (Saginaw State University), took place November 1-4, 2018.

The second symposium, focused on teaching political science research methods to undergraduates, and led by Mitchell Brown (Auburn University) and Biko Koenig (Franklin & Marshall College), will be held March 14-16, 2019. Further information, including submission details, can be found here.

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Past Events

In 2017-2018, APSA’s Centennial Center hosted two-day, teaching-oriented workshops for faculty of introductory courses related to American government and International Relations. In addition to assessing fundamental texts and themes of American government- and International Relations-related courses, the workshops included series of roundtables in which each participant shared a specific teaching resource, class project, or course component with the group.

The American Government workshop was led by Andrew Rudalevige (Bowdoin College) and Caroline Tolbert (University of Iowa & University of Delaware) and took place May 18-19, 2018. The International Relations workshop was led by Victor Asal (University at Albany, SUNY) and Joyce Kaufman (Whittier College) and took place October 20-21, 2017.