2007 TLC Track Summaries

 1 Teaching Research Methods 

SESSION A: Starting with Undergraduates
SESSION B: Locating Research Methods in the Curriculum
SESSION C: Teaching and Learning Research Methods
SESSION D: Open Session
SESSION E: Active Learning for Research Methods
SESSION F: Open Session
SESSION G: Engaging Research Methods and Civic Life

2 General Education/ Core Curriculum

SESSION A: Rethinking General Education
SESSION B: Comparative/International Perspectives in General Education
SESSION C: Pedagogies for General Education
SESSION D: Open Session
SESSION E: Technology and General Education
SESSION F: Open Session
SESSION G: Improving General Education Through Assessment of Learning

3 Internationalizing the Curriculum I 

SESSION A: Training the Global Citizen
SESSION B: Teaching Difference In and Out of the Classroom
SESSION C: Internships in the Curriculum
SESSION D: Open Session
SESSION E: International Crises in the Classroom
SESSION F: Open Session
SESSION G: Teaching Human Rights

4 Internationalizing the Curriculum II 

SESSION A: Educating for International Empathy
SESSION B: International Perspectives in the Political Science Curriculum
SESSION C: Open Session
SESSION D: Active Learning in International Education
SESSION E: Information Resources for International Education
SESSION F: Open Session
SESSION G: Assessing Internationalization of the Curriculum 

5 Program Assessment I 

SESSION A: Assessing Knowledge and Research Skills
SESSION B: Assessing Writing Skills
SESSION C: Open Session
SESSION D: Classroom Assessment Approaches
SESSION E: Program Assessment Techniques
SESSION F: Open Session
SESSION G: Program Assessment/Drawing Conclusions

6 Program Assessment II 

SESSION A: Program Assessment Overview
SESSION B: Standardized Tests, Portfolios, and Capstones
SESSION C: Open Session
SESSION D: Learning Compacts, Peer Review, and Outcomes Data
SESSION E: Open Session
SESSION F: Philosophical and Methodological Issues in Assessment
SESSION G: Assessment in Context

7 Simulations and Role Play I 

SESSION A: Simulating IR Through Crisis Situations and the US National Security Council
SESSION B: From the Classroom to the Department: Simulations and Role-Playing in Conflict Resolution & Crisis Situations
SESSION C: Open Session
SESSION D: Simulating Power Through Nonviolent Strategies and Beyond
SESSION E: Open Session
SESSION F: Teaching Intelligence and Student Incentives Structure Through Role-Playing Techniques
SESSION G: Blended Learning, Simulation and Role-Playing Ideas in Political Thought and Public Administration  

8 Simulations and Role Play II  

SESSION A: Simulations and Real Life
SESSION B: Tools for Simulations and Teaching
SESSION C: Open Session
SESSION D: Engaging Students in Learning
SESSION E: Open Session
SESSION F: Resembling Politics
SESSION G: Courts and Active Learning 

9 Civic Engagement I 

SESSION A: Track Introductions and Planning
SESSION B: Open Session
SESSION C: Engaging Students in Civics
SESSION D: Learning What Works
SESSION E: Open Session
SESSION F: Active Learning for Civic Engagement
SESSION G: Grounding Civics in Theory

10 Civic Engagement II 

SESSION A: Active Learning, But What Results
SESSION B: Open Session
SESSION C: Grounds of Civic Engagement
SESSION D: Civics and the Community
SESSION E: Open Session
SESSION F: Paths to Active Learning
SESSION G: Understanding Civics 

11 Graduate Education

SESSION A: Using Evidence in Graduate Education
SESSION B: Open Session
SESSION C: Teaching Strategies for Graduate Students
SESSION D: Open Session
SESSION E: Lessons From PA and Policy Education
SESSION F: Cross-National Views
SESSION G: Graduate Education and National Policy

12 Diversity and Inequality

SESSION A: Grounding Diversity in Rights
SESSION B: Open Session
SESSION C: Diversity and Active Learning
SESSION D: Open Session
SESSION E: Community Based Views of Diversity
SESSION F: Teaching and Learning LGBT Politics
SESSION G: Addressing Cross-Cultural Issues