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Creating Political Order: Maintaining Student Engagement through Reacting to the Past

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2009

Tracy Lightcap
Tracy Lightcap
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LaGrange College
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Abstract

Surveys indicate that there is more interest today in politics among college students than has been the case in the recent past. This article describes a multidisciplinary freshman seminar aimed at using that interest to promote student engagement and the Reacting to the Past simulations at the course's center.

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The Teacher
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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 42 , Issue 1 , January 2009 , pp. 175 - 179
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 2009

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