Project Pericles is a national consortium of colleges and universities committed to including participatory citizenship and social responsibility as essential elements of their educational programs. The link above contains a number of resources including a Civic Engagement Database. If you are looking for inspiration to see how faculty members integrate civic engagement into their courses, take a look at the interactive civic engagement resource database. The database includes examples of entire course syllabi and single modules, activities, or assignments that incorporate civic engagement into the curriculum.
California State University Chico's civic engagement site contains methods to incorporate civic engagement in the classroom, handouts, and more.
The University of Michigan's Ginsberg Center has gathered and adapted numerous course exercises on civic engagement topics. Some of these exercises allow students to practice democratic processes in order to develop democratic habits, while others support students engaging with socially relevant topics. All of these exercises can be applied to most course topics in a variety of disciplines.
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This website is meant to serve as a companion to the volumes Teaching Civic Engagement: From Student to Active Citizen and Teaching Civic Engagement across the Disciplines. Here visitors will find examples of how the authors included methods of teaching active citizenship into their curriculum and will be able to reference such items as sample syllabi, class projects, and assessments.
Developed by leading experts and educators at the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future, the Primer offers short, easy-to-digest readings about topics from farm to fork, peppered with anecdotes and images that bring concepts to life. Directories of articles, reports, lesson plans, and other resources help food system scholars dig deeper into the issues.
