Teaching Comparative Government and Politics

Saturday, February 12, 2011

Teaching materials

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After the Exam
post-exam current events project

Answering FRQs
Hints to students about how to succeed

Bingo
A model for a review exercise

China
A few lesson ideas for this unit

China Dr Kate Zhou speaks
U of Hawaii professor on Chinese politics (video)

China Jeopardy review
A PowerPoint based review game

Commanding Heights
PBS video series

Comparative constitutions
A web site with constitution texts

Comparative Exercise
A movie-based exercise to compare systems

Comparative Leadership
Were contemporaries influenced by the same things?

Concepts Review
An idea for periodic review of basic concepts

Course structure
Ideas about course structure and teaching the UK

Critical Thinking
Articles to compare

Dealing with old textbooks
How do you compensate for out of date texts?

EU Mini-Research
Questions to get students to look up basic information

EU, teaching about
Thoughts about teaching about the EU and other non-nation states

Evaluation of Liberty
A reading and a response essay assignment

Exam Review Activities
Worksheets to help students organize information

Film recommendations
Three films to help teach comparative

Final Review
45 questions for course review

Iran from PBS Newshour
Dec 09 coverage on Newshour

Iran Lessons
Ideas for teaching about Iran

Iran Revolution
Sources about the revolution

Legitimacy Essay
Review essay on legitimacy and participation

Mexico 1968
Massacre of students in Mexico City

MontyPython Dennis and Arthur
teaching with a scene from Monty Python

Nation
A reading for teaching a concept

National Happiness
Can it be measured and compared?

Nigeria Prebendalism
A characteristic of Nigerian politics

Political Parties Inquiry
Student research on recent elections & parties

Post Exam Project 2
A second post exam project

Post Exam Project 3
Another framework for post exam research

Post-Exam Project 1
An idea for a post-exam research project

Queen's Speech
Resources for studying the Queen's Speech 2008

Regime Change
How do we figure out what "regime change" means?

Russia Change in Russia
short radio reports for analysis

Russia Putin Cult
Videos of I want a man like Putin, etc.

Russia Using the Profile
A useful web site for teaching about Russia

Seminar model
A course organization plan

The State Research Paper
from the University of Richmond

Theory and Method
How to and why of comparative politics

UK Coalition Govt
Alan Carter's collection of analyses

China Collaborative Political History Timeline.doc
Collaborative Chinese Timeline

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