Experiential Learning – TLC Assignment Library

August 5, 2025January 15, 2026Environmental Science, STEM

Getting Involved in Environmental Community Groups

The Final Project Alternative is an optional project meant to replace your traditional model of the Final Project (a short presentation on an environmental research topic). This alternative is meant […]

January 10, 2025January 10, 2025Comptuer Science, Math, Statistics, STEM

Building a Predictive Probabilistic Model

This assignment’s objective is to build a probabilistic model to predict the winners of MarchMadness, game by game. As summarized by Google AI: “March Madness is the nickname for theNational […]

December 18, 2024December 18, 2024Political Science, Social Sciences, Uncategorized

Archiving New York Political Events

In this scaffolded assignment, students propose a topic related to New York City politics, visit an archive, and identify a few primary source documents that might help them formulate an […]

January 11, 2024January 11, 2024Anthropology, Multi-Disciplinary, Social Sciences

Creating Commodities

While doing a sequence of readings on capitalism and its discontents, this assignments tasks students with considering how things became commodities (like water, land, animals’ bodies, etc). To familiarize students […]

May 16, 2023May 17, 2023Anthropology, Medicine, Public health, Social Sciences

Illness Narrative

Students conduct an ethnographic interview with someone they know who has experienced “illness” in their life. The illness narratives are used to support student learning about the methods of ethnography. […]

March 20, 2023May 15, 2023History, Humanities, Political Science

Photo Essay on Political Participation

Students are tasked with attending an in person or online a political event that takes place in New York City. For the assignment, students take 5 pictures (or 5 screenshots […]

March 9, 2023May 15, 2023Anthropology, Humanities, Social Sciences

Ethnographic Journal

Students are asked to keep an ethnographic journal throughout the semester to observe and analyze an aspect of society or culture. Each journal will be written in response to a […]

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Getting Involved in Environmental Community Groups

Photo Essay on Political Participation

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