Social Psychology & Comics Students in psychology courses are often required to complete several writing assignments. In a Psychology 101 course at John Jay, […]

Environmental Justice Case Study: Water How did lead get into Flint’s Water? This case study is designed as an active learning unit that allows students to work i […]

Making Memes The Meme Assignment was developed by Dr. Shawna Brandle for her American Goverment class at Kingsborough Community College. The […]

Creating Commodities While doing a sequence of readings on capitalism and its discontents, this assignments tasks students with considering how things […]

Issues in New Media Manifesto This manifesto project explores an ethical dilemma or matter of social injustice created, or made worse by technology or new media. The […]

Make the Familiar Strange Students write a 1-page description of a common human practice as if they have never seen or heard of it before. Students are told to […]

Ethnography of a Medical Controversy In this fieldwork assignment, students locate a recent topic related to health and use the frameworks of medical anthropology to […]

Illness Narrative Students conduct an ethnographic interview with someone they know who has experienced “illness” in their life. The illness nar […]

launch day!Today we launch our zine into the world! Thanks to all of the student contributors, and thanks to the Spring 2023 TLH Team: Matt […]

Documentary Analysis Students select a documentary, television episode, or audiovisual resource that was covered in class and write a response paper […]

Psychological Disorders Presentation In groups, students create a short 4-5 slide presentation about a psychological disorder of their choice. Student must research the […]

All about the Pitch Students develop and give a 20-minute “business pitch” in front of a group of imaginary investors . As part of the presentation, each […]

Resistance Case Study Students choose an example (event, person, place, etc.) they consider to be an important example of ‘resistance.’ The primary pur […]

Photo Essay on Political Participation Students are tasked with attending an in person or online a political event that takes place in New York City. For the assignment, […]

Students are invited to create submissions for the Freedom Dreaming Zine.

There are 4 broad themes that can be approached in a variety of ways.

Educational justice

Education as […]

Ethnographic Journal Students are asked to keep an ethnographic journal throughout the semester to observe and analyze an aspect of society or culture. Each […]

Philosophy Final Paper Students choose an articles covered in the course and argue for or against the main argument. Paper tasks students with developing a […]

Personalized Learning Plan Midterm essay or multimedia project that tasks students with designing a 20-hour work plan to gain knowledge of particular content or […]

Social Annotation with Hypothes.is Students practice reading and writing strategies using the Hypothesis annotation tool to mark up a text, take shared notes, and connect […]