Classroom Activities for Engaging with Politics, Policy, & Social Issues

Across the disciplines, we can help our students to build skills for civic and democratic engagement that will serve them throughout their careers and lives. This role can be challenging, however, particularly in politically polarized times. Our goal for this in-person, interactive workshop is to strengthen instructors’ toolkits for incorporating civic skills-building in the classroom and discipline. We’ll explore specific classroom activities for class sessions discussing policy, politics, and social issues, such as deliberative dialogue discussions and conversation cafes. We’ll focus on how to select and design activities well-suited for the specific skills we are seeking to foster during a class period.

• This session is offered as a part of the Promoting Democracy Teaching Series by CRLT & Ginsberg Center.
• Open to UM faculty, graduate students/GSIs, and post-docs. If you are UM staff with instructional responsibilities who would like to register, please reach out to teachdemocracy@umich.edu

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