What type of student produced content is posted to the blog?
Podcasts: students will create two podcasts from topics of their choice, covering immigration and California state and local politics. Podcast #1 will be shorter and allow the students a chance to familiarize themselves with podcasting. Podcast #2 will be longer and more polished. Students will create accompanying transcripts for their podcasts that will be available online. Our Spotify channel can be viewed/listed to at The Civic Experience.
Election Post-Mortem Projects: students write two blogs on a topic of their choice. Blog #1 focuses on defining an issue and explaining the impact of the most recent election on their issue. Blog #2 focuses on describing the audience who might be most impacted by the issue and how those individuals might engage in the political system to impact change. Students also create two original visual depictions of their project and write four Twitter posts describing their project.
Voter Guides: students create voter guides on a given issue for the upcoming elections, California and American politics. Projects from the 2018 election are posted intermittently. Voter guides for the 2020 election will be posted in the Fall of 2020.
Podcasts: students will create two podcasts from topics of their choice, covering immigration and California state and local politics. Podcast #1 will be shorter and allow the students a chance to familiarize themselves with podcasting. Podcast #2 will be longer and more polished. Students will create accompanying transcripts for their podcasts that will be available online. Our Spotify channel can be viewed/listed to at The Civic Experience.
Election Post-Mortem Projects: students write two blogs on a topic of their choice. Blog #1 focuses on defining an issue and explaining the impact of the most recent election on their issue. Blog #2 focuses on describing the audience who might be most impacted by the issue and how those individuals might engage in the political system to impact change. Students also create two original visual depictions of their project and write four Twitter posts describing their project.
Voter Guides: students create voter guides on a given issue for the upcoming elections, California and American politics. Projects from the 2018 election are posted intermittently. Voter guides for the 2020 election will be posted in the Fall of 2020.
Additional Classroom Projects Posted to the Blog
Social Movements Music Project: an in-class project completed in American Politics and California State and Local Politics. Popular music, content covers politics or political movements, over several decades is content coded by students. Students create the codebooks for the content analysis, code the songs using song lyrics, and create a crowdsourced dataset.
California and American Public Opinion Surveys: an in-class project completed in American and California State and Local Politics courses. Students design (Qualtrics) and field their own public opinion surveys on Amazon Mechanical Turk. We analyze the data in class.
In-class Simulations: in California State and Local Politics the classes participate in a simulation designed to replicate the direct democracy process in California.
In-class Research Methods Materials: data analysis and visualization from the undergraduate research methods course in Political Science.