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Item 4: Assignment: Advocacy Reflection, Natascia Boeri Sep 2025

Item 4: Assignment: Advocacy Reflection, Natascia Boeri

Natascia Boeri, Advocacy in Action: Civic Engagement Through Social Sciences

This assignment encourages students to reflect on their understanding of civic engagement. The purpose is for students to reflect on their advocacy efforts and the impact on their understanding of civic engagement, evaluating both their individual contributions and overall learning.

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Item 5: Assignment 1: Pathways To Public Service Presentation, Wendy Wagner Sep 2025

Item 5: Assignment 1: Pathways To Public Service Presentation, Wendy Wagner

Wendy Wagner, Civic Leadership

This assignment asks students to research a local organization addressing a social issue of their choice, analyze which of the six Pathways to Public Service are represented in the organization's work, and identify alternative pathways through other organizations addressing the same issue. Students prepare a 5-minute presentation that demonstrates their understanding of diverse approaches to civic engagement and creates opportunities for their own civic participation.

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Item 2: Activity 1: Chronicling America, Lisa Bratton Sep 2025

Item 2: Activity 1: Chronicling America, Lisa Bratton

Lisa Bratton, African American Women in the United States

The purpose of this activity, which builds on Assignment Two, is to use primary sources to learn about key women and events. This activity can be done as a class or in small groups.

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Item 3: Activity 2: Black Panther Virtual Museum, Lisa Bratton Sep 2025

Item 3: Activity 2: Black Panther Virtual Museum, Lisa Bratton

Lisa Bratton, African American Women in the United States

The purpose of this activity is to explore a virtual museum while learning more about women in the Black Panther Party.

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Item 3: Activity 2: Civic Skills: Design Your Own Learning, Wendy Wagner Sep 2025

Item 3: Activity 2: Civic Skills: Design Your Own Learning, Wendy Wagner

Wendy Wagner, Civic Leadership

This two-part activity helps students identify important civic skills for democratic participation and then use backward design principles to create their own experiential learning plan for developing a specific civic skill. Students learn how to intentionally design learning experiences that build their capacity for effective civic engagement.

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Item 6: Assignment 2: African American Women And Voting, Lisa Bratton Sep 2025

Item 6: Assignment 2: African American Women And Voting, Lisa Bratton

Lisa Bratton, African American Women in the United States

The purpose of this assignment is to craft an argument for or against suffrage for women by exploring primary sources.

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Item 5: Assignment 1: Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome, Lisa Bratton Sep 2025

Item 5: Assignment 1: Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome, Lisa Bratton

Lisa Bratton, African American Women in the United States

The purpose of this assignment is for you to understand the connection between the trauma experienced by formerly enslaved Africans and that which is experienced today.

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Item 3: Assignment 2: Voter Support Advocacy Project, Sarah Rudewalker Sep 2025

Item 3: Assignment 2: Voter Support Advocacy Project, Sarah Rudewalker

Sarah RudeWalker, The Ballot or the Bullet

This assignment asks students to do a real-world experiment to test out the relationship between voting plans and voting behavior. Students are asked to find ten potential voters who would be willing to make a voting plan, assist the voters through the planning process, and provide any follow-up support their subjects would find helpful. They then complete a post-project report and reflection about their experiences and takeaways. The assignment was originally designed for a general education course for first-year students, and it can be integrated into courses investigating voter engagement or rhetoric topically or used as an opportunity to have …

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Item 1: Syllabus - Information Literacy And Civic Responsibility, Troy Martin Sep 2025

Item 1: Syllabus - Information Literacy And Civic Responsibility, Troy Martin

Troy Martin, Information Literacy and Civic Responsibility

This is a seven-week unit designed for a first or second-year, undergraduate, general studies program. The American Association of Colleges and Universities includes information literacy as an “essential learning outcome”. This unit highlights pressing questions and problems related to democracy, civic responsibility, the contemporary information ecosystem, information disorder, and information literacy skills. It outlines objectives, resources, learning activities and assignments.

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Item 2 And 2.1: Activity 1: Who's Interested In The News? Whose Interests Are In The News?, Troy Martin Sep 2025

Item 2 And 2.1: Activity 1: Who's Interested In The News? Whose Interests Are In The News?, Troy Martin

Troy Martin, Information Literacy and Civic Responsibility

This activity requires students to compare and contrast characteristics of popular or commercial news stories with public interest news stories. Students will make critical distinctions between different kinds of information that coexist under the broad umbrella of “news” in a contemporary information ecosystem. Instructors should provide students with the worksheet for this activity.

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Item 4: Assignment 1: Cultural Immersion: A Group Documentary Project, Salah D. Hassan Sep 2025

Item 4: Assignment 1: Cultural Immersion: A Group Documentary Project, Salah D. Hassan

Salah D. Hassan, Global Citizenship: Culture and Climate Justice in Indonesia

This assignment asks students to explore how Indonesia is global. Working in small groups of 2 or 3 with an Indonesian student, the group will spend several afternoons and evenings with a host family, documenting local cultural activities in Jambi that are signs of globalization. Each group will prepare a concise documentary project that uses photos and/or video to explore a specific global topic in Jambi. Topics might include food, fashion, entertainment, advertising, automobiles, educational systems, language, religion, ethnicity, etc. Students will explore how the local cultures have incorporated or contributed to the burgeoning global cultures that define Indonesia in …

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B. Assignment One: U.S. Voting Rights Character Card Assignment With Presentation, Frankie Nicole Weaver Sep 2025

B. Assignment One: U.S. Voting Rights Character Card Assignment With Presentation, Frankie Nicole Weaver

Frankie Nicole Weaver, Comparative Twentieth Century South African and United States Civil Rights and Voting Rights Histories

This assignment requires students to think like curators and research their assigned historical figures. Figures are tied to the women’s suffrage and anti-suffrage movements in the United States. Museums and historic landmarks want visitors to engage in history and to consider the complicated, interesting backgrounds of figures who acted in unique ways, shaped by their notions of class, race, gender, culture, power, education, religion, democracy, and citizenship. Often, museums ask their visitors to imagine they are historical figures. One way to achieve this is by providing wearable lanyards with character cards that feature an image of a historical figure on …

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C. Assignment Two: South Africa Voting Rights Character Card Assignment With Presentation, Frankie Nicole Weaver Sep 2025

C. Assignment Two: South Africa Voting Rights Character Card Assignment With Presentation, Frankie Nicole Weaver

Frankie Nicole Weaver, Comparative Twentieth Century South African and United States Civil Rights and Voting Rights Histories

This assignment requires students to think like curators and research their assigned historical figures. Figures are tied to the women’s suffrage movements in Southern Africa. In Southern Africa, women’s suffrage campaigns were less central as male-dominated white political agendas and non-white struggles for emancipation eclipsed them. Yet, the history of women’s suffrage and enfranchisement of new segments of South Africans, including white women in 1930, is important to examine when considering voting rights and civic engagement in Southern Africa. Non-white women in South Africa would be forced to persevere in their struggle for political rights; some would vote in the …

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Item 1: Syllabus Introduction To U.S. Government And Politics, David Hubert Sep 2025

Item 1: Syllabus Introduction To U.S. Government And Politics, David Hubert

David Hubert, Introduction to U.S. Government & Politics

This is an adaptable syllabus for an introductory US Government and Politics course. It provides learning outcomes, an outline for seven 2This is an adaptable syllabus for an introductory US Government and Politics course. It provides learning outcomes, an outline for seven 2-week modules, and the spacing of in-class activities and other assignments

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E. Assignment Four: Scopes Trial History Lesson & Class Activities, Frankie Nicole Weaver Sep 2025

E. Assignment Four: Scopes Trial History Lesson & Class Activities, Frankie Nicole Weaver

Frankie Nicole Weaver, Comparative Twentieth Century South African and United States Civil Rights and Voting Rights Histories

Build on introductory context and engage with themes tied to the 1925 Scopes trial, particularly highlighting public discourse and civic engagement in culture and politics, TN law and state judicial proceedings, science and technology, religion and Christianity in the US, notions of evolution and human evolution, public education, journalism and media, national politics or political ideologies, and US Constitutional liberties of speech, press, and religion.

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Item 4: Activity 2: Electoral College, David Hubert Sep 2025

Item 4: Activity 2: Electoral College, David Hubert

David Hubert, Introduction to U.S. Government & Politics

This is an activity designed to help students understand how the winner-takes-all process works in the Electoral College and how it can lead to the popular vote winner losing the Electoral College vote.

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Item 5: Assignment 1: Investigate Coverage Of Contested Claims, Troy Martin Sep 2025

Item 5: Assignment 1: Investigate Coverage Of Contested Claims, Troy Martin

Troy Martin, Information Literacy and Civic Responsibility

This is a multistep collaborative investigation and writing assignment designed to practice the SIFT model (Mike Caulfield) for quick source and claim-checking. This assignment should follow earlier introduction and practice using the SIFT model. Students will conduct individual investigations into factual claims followed by group deliberation and report writing.

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Item 2: Activity 1: The Optimal United States Presidential Ticket, Mary Anne K. Clarke Sep 2025

Item 2: Activity 1: The Optimal United States Presidential Ticket, Mary Anne K. Clarke

Mary Anne K. Clarke, Democracy, Citizenship, and the Media Course

This classroom activity provides an opportunity for students to discuss potential presidential and vice presidential candidates and determine what qualities, qualifications, and characteristics would make the ideal ticket.

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F. Assignment Five: Scopes Trial Creative Assignment, Frankie Nicole Weaver Sep 2025

F. Assignment Five: Scopes Trial Creative Assignment, Frankie Nicole Weaver

Frankie Nicole Weaver, Comparative Twentieth Century South African and United States Civil Rights and Voting Rights Histories

This creative assignment encourages students to reflect on independent exploration, class group learning, discussions, and to use research to think critically and to present their ideas in a 5-6-page essay. Students will also think like educators and create 8-10 PowerPoint slides.

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Item 3. Class Activity - Oral Histories And Interviews, Tanja Bacani Sep 2025

Item 3. Class Activity - Oral Histories And Interviews, Tanja Bacani

Tanja Bacani, History of Civic Engagement and Voting Rights Since Reconstruction

In this activity, students will engage with various examples of oral history by watching video interviews of Civil Rights activists. Students will not only learn about civic engagement through their stories, but also evaluate the effectiveness of interview techniques, collaborate with peers to discuss key takeaways, and craft their own thoughtful questions as if they were conducting the interview. This activity can serve as an independent lesson on the experiences of everyday people who fought for justice and the importance of oral history. It can also serve as a foundational step toward the final podcast project in this class as …

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Active Learning Activity - You And Your Community: Considering Personality When Getting Involved, Tanja Bacani Sep 2025

Active Learning Activity - You And Your Community: Considering Personality When Getting Involved, Tanja Bacani

Tanja Bacani, History of Civic Engagement and Voting Rights Since Reconstruction

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Item 2: Activity 1: Cultural Mapping Workshop: Jambi Districts, Salah D. Hassan Sep 2025

Item 2: Activity 1: Cultural Mapping Workshop: Jambi Districts, Salah D. Hassan

Salah D. Hassan, Global Citizenship: Culture and Climate Justice in Indonesia

As an introductory activity for this education abroad course on global citizenship, students will work in small groups of 3 or 4 with local partners (Jambi students and faculty) to explore the relationship between cultural places and the environment of Jambi by creating cultural maps of the districts of Jambi. This classroom activity aims to prepare students for their community service and site visits in Jambi. They will learn about the local geography, acquire knowledge of the diverse cultural environment, and gain an understanding about specific sites of environmental concern in this mid-size city in central Sumatra. The activity will …

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Item 3: Activity 2: Role-Play Debate: Climate Justice Solutions For Jambi, Salah D. Hassan Sep 2025

Item 3: Activity 2: Role-Play Debate: Climate Justice Solutions For Jambi, Salah D. Hassan

Salah D. Hassan, Global Citizenship: Culture and Climate Justice in Indonesia

Students will work in small groups of 2-3 and each group will be assigned a role representing a different stakeholder. Roles might include local farmers, government officials, environmental NGOs, indigenous leaders, international corporations, and local activists. Students explore different perspectives on climate justice through role-playing. By simulating a debate involving key stakeholders, students will better understand the complexities of climate action and the challenges of balancing global and local interests. Through this activity, students gain insight into the multiple perspectives involved in addressing climate change. This activity will deepen students' understanding of the complexities of balancing local needs with global …

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Item 5: Assignment 2: Community Service And Self Awareness: Illustrated Experiential Learning Journal, Salah D. Hassan Sep 2025

Item 5: Assignment 2: Community Service And Self Awareness: Illustrated Experiential Learning Journal, Salah D. Hassan

Salah D. Hassan, Global Citizenship: Culture and Climate Justice in Indonesia

This course is grounded in community service and emphasizes experiential learning. Students will be spending significant time outside of the classroom working with local partner organizations and learning from them about the Indonesia cultures and environmental issues in Jambi. In this assignment, students connect their community service experiences with local Indonesian community organizations to their self-awareness as global citizens. The assignment asks students to record in an illustrated journal (a personal photo essay) their knowledge of the organization and the effect of community service on their self-knowledge while in Jambi. Documenting their observations through photos, videos, and a written journal, …

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Item 6: #Sayhername, Citizenship, And Misogynoir, Danielle Hodge Sep 2025

Item 6: #Sayhername, Citizenship, And Misogynoir, Danielle Hodge

Danielle Hodge, Race, Communication, and Anti-Black Racism

This discussion activity introduces students to the #SayHerName movement and the concept of misogynoir. Specifically, students will engage with three readings that detail stories of police and state violence against African American and Black women, discuss the anti-Black racist sexism that Black women experience, and highlight the digital resistance that Black girls, women, gender nonconforming, and trans folk employ. These texts inform their subsequent engagement with the documentary, Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland.

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D. Assignment Three: Scopes Trial Introductory Assigned Activities: Learning From Tennessee’S Scopes Trial 100 Years Later, Frankie Nicole Weaver Sep 2025

D. Assignment Three: Scopes Trial Introductory Assigned Activities: Learning From Tennessee’S Scopes Trial 100 Years Later, Frankie Nicole Weaver

Frankie Nicole Weaver, Comparative Twentieth Century South African and United States Civil Rights and Voting Rights Histories

This assignment encourages students to engage actively with scaffolded pre-learning necessary for the Scopes Trial unit. Students are introduced to the history of the 1925 Scopes Trial and the folk history connected to Inherit the Wind, in its various forms.

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Item 6: Activity 5: Quiz On Voting, Scott Hicks Sep 2025

Item 6: Activity 5: Quiz On Voting, Scott Hicks

Scott Hicks, African American Literature

This quiz is designed to ensure students’ understanding of how to register and vote in North Carolina and is adaptable for use by faculty in other states. It may be used as a standalone activity, either during class time or as homework, or in conjunction with a guest presentation by a state, county, parish, or tribal elections official; completed individually or in groups; and completed on paper or via a learning management system. In my course, the quiz will be completed during the final exam period, when a state elections official will present a voter education seminar titled “Voter Registration,” …

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Item 5: Activity 4: Voting Role-Play: A Service-Learning Activity, Scott Hicks Sep 2025

Item 5: Activity 4: Voting Role-Play: A Service-Learning Activity, Scott Hicks

Scott Hicks, African American Literature

Designed for inclusion in any college or university course delivered in person, this service-learning activity reinforces skills, knowledge, and dispositions related to civic engagement through experiential learning in service of social and community goals of increasing participation in democratic governance. In this activity, university students will lead middle or high school students in a one-hour role playing activity that allows them to practice the steps of registering to vote and voting in North Carolina. For best results, the instructor should lead university students in a dress rehearsal of the activity prior to delivering it onsite.

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Item 4: Activity 3: Collaboration And Conversation Check-In (Viewing), Scott Hicks Sep 2025

Item 4: Activity 3: Collaboration And Conversation Check-In (Viewing), Scott Hicks

Scott Hicks, African American Literature

Designed for and utilized in a literature survey course delivered in person whose primary enrollment is first- and second-year students, this graphic organizer provides a student-centered structure for class viewing that foregrounds attention, notetaking, and reflection.

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Item 3: Activity 2: Collaboration And Conversation Check-In (Discussion), Scott Hicks Sep 2025

Item 3: Activity 2: Collaboration And Conversation Check-In (Discussion), Scott Hicks

Scott Hicks, African American Literature

Designed for and utilized in a literature survey course delivered in person whose primary enrollment is first- and second-year students, this graphic organizer provides a student-centered structure for class discussion that foregrounds attention, notetaking, participation, relationship, and reflection.

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