BC Faculty Members’ Creative Assignments

If you are (re)designing course assignments and are looking for some inspiration, or if you’re just curious to learn more about what other BC instructors are doing, the linked faculty reflections on the design and implementation of creative assignments in their courses might be of interest to you.

CTE staff are also available as thought partners if you would like to think through assignment (re)design with someone. If you would like to schedule a consult or nominate one of your assignments or that of a colleague to be featured, please email centerforteaching@bc.edu.

Review Can Erbil and Kalpana Seshadri’s multimedia essay project in their Complex Problems course, “Beyond Price: Markets, Cultures, Values”

Review Heather Olins’ reflections on the nature walk project she assigns to students in her introductory “Ecology & Evolution” course.

Read Emine Fetvaci’s reflections on the collaborative essay her students wrote, featured in an exhibit in the art gallery at Holy Cross.

Review Tom Saspford’s reflections on the project that had students perform selections of Seneca’s Medea.

Review Douglas Warner’s reflections on the scientific manuscript project he assigns in “Investigations in Molecular Cell Biology.”

Review Alexander Auner’s reflections on a visualization project that was intended to promote critically thinking and problem-solving skills while introducing common research software in an Introductory Physics course.

Review Ethan Baxter & Natana DeLong-Bas’ reflections on the video project they assigned in their Enduring Questions core course.

Review Angela Ards’s reflections on the “outsider outlet” group project in her course, “The Underground Press.”

Review Ángeles Picone reflections on the “unessay” assignment that served as the midterm in her “Modern Latin American History” course.

Review Nora Gross’ reflections on the creative final project she assigned students in her “Grief & Resistance: Social Responses to American Gun Violence” Enduring Questions course.

Course Design

BC Faculty Members' Creative Assignments