Discipline-Specific Ideas

Some great advice about teaching is discipline-specific. This page provides links to resources that address teaching in the context of particular subject areas.

 

Resource Sites You Can Search By Subject

provides syllabus and resource ideas for numerous subjects)

Arts

Business

(AAA faculty development site)

(left-hand navigation bar lists specific subjects)

Communication and Journalism

Humanities

(selected issues)

Law

Barbara Glesner Fines, UMKC, (includes ideas for group exercises, learning outcomes, student assessment, and links to articles on legal education)

Roy Stuckey,

Carnegie Report, (Executive Summary)

Jonathan Zittrain's (video explanation)

Social Sciences

Anthropology

 

(Smithsonian)

(field data and analyses from 12 projects plus teachers' manual)

Economics

 

(Economics)

History

 

Peter J. Frederick,

John Foran,

Laura Cruz, (teaching with simulation games)

(Barnard)

Political Science

American Political Science Association,

Psychology

Sociology

(Sociology)

 

STEM Subjects

Generally

 

Laboratory for Innovative Technology & Engineering Education,

Richard M. Felder & Rebecca Brent,

("Teachers' Lounge" for undergraduate education)

Biology

(problem sets and tutorials)

Chemistry

 

for use in Chemistry

Engineering

(Engineering)

Marie Brown et al,

Geological Sciences

 

Science Education Resource Center (SERC),

On the Cutting Edge, (links to articles about teaching)

Math

Physics

 

(mostly Physics)

Roger A. Freedman,

Statistics