The Connected Corpus is a living collection of annotated digital texts. The annotations describe philosophical connections between different texts and authors, and they connect you to those texts in translation and the original language. The goal of The Connected Corpus is to deepen your philosophical engagement with a focal text by identifying similar ideas in other texts; criticisms or new perspectives; alternative arguments or counter-arguments; or shared philosophical terminology. The connections may or may not indicate historical transmission of ideas.

Students in a class of 60+ worked in teams of four to create a StoryMap on an environmental biology topic. A requirement of the assignment was that the story must engage in the science of the topic and find ways to make complex ideas accessible. Peer review was assigned mid-semester, final projects were assessed using a rubric and reflection papers incorporated assessment of their groupmates as well as their own work throughout the semester.

In a class of 21 students, groups of 3 or 4 students make 5 minute video remixes using a excerpt provided. The goals for the video remix are: 1) To show how race/ethnicity/gender/age have been used to portray otherness, but how they might be portrayed more equitably in children’s media 2)To find visual/aural ways of teaching children about stereotyping in media, 3) To demonstrate how shifts in editing can affect storytelling. Assignment was assessed with a reflection paper and rubric connected to assignment objectives.

In groups of 3-4 students make a 10 minute podcast as a final project. The podcasts are written for a general/non-scientific audience, but include an in-depth exploration of a technical scientific paper on one of the mass extinctions. The goals for producing podcasts are to research a narrow mass extinction related topic in detail, practice science communication, and have fun.

The Half the History project is dedicated to creating and curating under-told and untold stories about diverse women through short-form biography, film, and podcast. 

The American Medical Directories (AMDs) were periodically published by the American Medical Association from 1906 and present an immense opportunity to illuminate the organizational dynamics of professional medicine in the early 20th century. In addition to physicians’ names and practice locations, these volumes also contain valuable information about individuals’ training histories and medical specializations, demographic characteristics, and membership in state and local societies.

The MyTERN Conversations Podcast shares powerful conversations about life before, during, and after incarceration, using personal storytelling to reveal the systems of racial, gender, and economic injustice that shape our lives. Through MyTERN Conversations, we invite listeners to rethink entrenched stereotypes about people impacted by the carceral state and to question assumptions about difference and diversity. At the same time, we highlight the role of education and community in healing, supporting others, and building meaningful change.

Together with one or two peers, students are assigned a scene from an Italian film. They are asked to re-write the script in Italian, record the new lines and dub them in the video.