“The games bring out the competitive nature of students,” Powers says. “When you make learning a game where two teams compete to win, students get emotionally and intellectually involved.”
Few people are better equipped than Powers to bring the sweep of history into the classroom. A world-renowned scholar, Powers is best known for his expertise on American national security. Among his many books, Powers wrote G-Men: Hoover’s FBI in American Popular Culture; Not Without Honor: The History of American Anticommunism; and Broken: The Troubled Past and Uncertain Future of the FBI.
As a Fulbright Professor, Powers has taught twice in Japan, and he has lectured in Germany, the Philippines, India and Korea. Today he devotes much energy to his role as co-director of the college’s freshman general education program in American Issues, Institutions and Ideas. Powers and his fellow faculty members collaborated to write the book for that course.
“Our faculty is especially enthusiastic about teaching freshmen,” Powers observes. “We try to give them a view of history that they have not seen before.”
“ I want students to open their eyes to what they often take for granted. It’s exciting to reach students who have not thought about the issues you present. They learn to see the world differently.”
Deborah Popper PhD | Geography
Popper puts geography on the map As Deborah Popper sees it, there is no better field for the intellectually curious than geography.
“Geography encompasses so many issues that help us to better understand how the world functions,” says Popper, professor of geography and director of CSI’s Macaulay Honors College Program. “Migration, immigration, environmental issues, risk analysis, the distribution of political power, what places look like — it’s all part of our field.”
Students who take geography classes at CSI apply what they learn over a broad array of careers. Aspiring teachers draw on geography to prepare them to teach high school social studies or elementary school education. CSI’s geography classes are also a natural complement for students who major in international studies. Still others who want to pursue careers in sociology, environmental studies and the political sciences find value in these courses.
Popper herself has been at the forefront of the field. Her work on the future of the Great Plains set off a national debate that has carried on for decades. It also helped Popper earn the Paul P. Vouras Medal for outstanding work in regional geography from the American Geographical Society.
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