Your Brain: Don’t Leave Home Without It
Students identify and explain the physical and cognitive processes that occur in the brain during a given scenario.
Dogs, Pigeons, and Texts
Students explore classical and operant conditioning and design an experiment to test a hypothesis about human behavior.
Whom Should We Ask?
Students select a policy issue and write a proposal to an interest group suggesting which branch of government to target.
Gender and the Sexual Division of Labor in Our Workplaces
Students read From Margin to Center and conduct field observations on gender and division of labor in the workplace.
The Ups and Downs of Unemployment
Students write a research paper examining the causes and effects of unemployment in the U.S. over the past two decades.
Is College Worth It?
Students conduct research and calculate the marginal costs and marginal benefits of a college education.
Sleep Deprived?
Students research the importance of sleep and gather data on the sleep habits of peers to write a statistical report.
Investigating Body Mass Index
Students research the issue of obesity, gather data, and conduct a statistical analysis of quantitative data.
Analyzing Economic Inequality
Students research academic articles that relate to three theories of poverty and apply the theories to a social policy.
The U.S. Constitution: Strict or Broad Construction
Students write about the constitutional issues that divided Jefferson, Hamilton, and their followers.