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Enrollment and financial crises threaten growing list of academic disciplines

The Hechinger Report

Students at Florida International University, including some pursuing master’s degrees in African and African diaspora studies, discuss a book about a massacre of tens of thousands of Haitians by the Dominican army in 1937. Credit: Photo: Leslie Ovalle for The Hechinger Report. Now these kinds of disciplines are in for even greater scrutiny.

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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

The UC Davis California History Social Science Project frames current events within their historical context , connecting students’ present to the past. We could search for pins on Native American history , Middle East cultures , Japanese history , government , geography , sociology , psychology , economics , and numerous other topics.

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Navigating the Challenges & Considerations of Fieldwork: APSA’s Committee on the Status of Graduate Students Virtual Workshop

Political Science Now

She has published several books (authored and co-edited) and multiple articles on comparative law and courts, as well as on field research and research transparency. and Master’s from the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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Short Course: The Logic & Best Practices of Process Tracing (QMMR A)

Political Science Now

While the examples are primarily drawn from international relations and comparative politics, the methods we discuss are applicable to all the subfields of political science, to sociology, economics, history, business studies, public policy, and many other fields.

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What’s it like to teach psychology?

Jonathan Firth

My own school psychology textbooks, including books for the Higher and GCSE courses. There are also a wide range of resources for A-Level Psychology. I’ve been teaching Psychology at secondary school level for almost two decades. This article discusses routes into teaching the subject. Some have their own degree programmes, too.

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From prison to dean’s list: How Danielle Metz got an education after incarceration

The Hechinger Report

Thomas was so poor and violent when Metz was young that Sister Helen Prejean described the neighborhood in the opening of her book “Dead Man Walking” as “not death row exactly, but close.”. At FCI Dublin, women were studying English literature, psychology and sociology when Metz first arrived. Metz waved her niece off. Debi Campbell.

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