Student assignments can include:

• Sharing personal perceptions or experiences related to selected issues
• Collecting articles illustrating concepts or issues
• Using daily newspaper and archives to compare and contrast developments over the years
• Illustrating the relationships among events, laws, policies and theories
• Working individually or in groups to summarize individual articles or sections
• Proving or disproving arguments presented through lectures and text
• Illustrating concepts from the newspaper in graphs, radio shows, speeches, newscasts or editorials
• Proposing solutions, responses, ramifications of issues or events as covered in The Times
• Producing research posters
• Evaluating the use of numbers, written language, statistics and visuals in the newspaper
• Preparing class handouts summarizing key points of student analyses