Students in this course reported on immigration and refugee policy and practice across borders, with a focus on the conflict between national security, international responsibility, and America and Canada’s historical roles in resettlement. Trips to Canada (Toronto and Winnipeg) and Connecticut will gave students opportunities to report from the field.
Author: Ben Johnston (Page 4 of 10)
Ben Johnston is Senior Educational Technologist in the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning, a unit of the Office of the Dean of the College, Princeton University.
This Writing Seminar explored the achievements — and limits — of social movements and ideas opposed to the status quo. Students analyzed Frederick Douglass’s 1852 speech about the meaning of Independence Day, examined historical, architectural, and financial perspectives on the Woodstock Music and Art Fair of 1969 and conducted their own research projects investigating an act, movement, or theory of dissent of their own choosing.
Students in this course contributed blog posts based on research, reporting, and aggregation, focused on the tools journalists use to cover hostile governments.
The Studio 455 website features cource assignments and other iformation, serves as a resource of documentary films used in the course, supports the addition of time-coded, student annotations to those films, and hosts student writings and multimedia project work.
This course website offers a course schedule, assignments, and additional resources for VIS369.
This course website chronicles the experiences and journalistic work of Journalism 447, Politics and the Media, as they travel to Arizona and experience, first-hand, the midterm elections of 2018.
A collaboration between the Princeton Art Museum, Princeton University LIbrary, and the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning, the Teach With Collections website highlights undergraduate coursework that takes advantage of the University special collections and archives.
A project website based on the engineering work of Joseph Henry (1797 – 1878).
In this hands-on seminar and laboratory experience about the engineering design of motorcycles, students restore a vintage Triumph motorcycle and compare it to previous restorations of the same make and model of motorcycle from other years (1955, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1962, 1963, and 1964).
This website includes an animated video offering a new perspective on the Ōnin War. This war, which nominally lasted from 1467 through 1477, led to the destruction of Kyoto, Japan’s capital, and according to standard narratives, ushered in a century of conflict, Japan’s Warring States (Sengoku) era.