Increasing numbers of FAS courses are designed to build toward a final or capstone project. These projects are usually shared with classmates and a Harvard audience through fairs, screenings, exhibits, or other types of public events at the end of the semester.... Read more about Showcasing Capstone Course Projects with WordPress

In his popular courses on Justice and Bioethics, Professor Sandel fostered in-class debate by inviting students to express their opinions about the controversial topics of the course on a blog and to share their arguments and counter-arguments with each other during lectures. The Justice course is now available to the world online at justiceharvard.org.
 

Students in this Culture and Belief class were asked to interpret class discussions and readings in an artistic way. This included song, dance performance, poem, sculpture, painting, or even a short story. Artifacts were uploaded into an online portfolio that could be shared outside of the classroom and that was accessible to students after they left the class.

In African and African American Studies 174: The African City, students engaged with historic and present-day cities in Africa by examining architecture, city planning, spatial framing, popular culture, and art markets.

The course website was intended to:

• Provide students with a venue to continue lecture and section discussions after leaving the classroom
• Allow students to create a multimedia response project instead of (or as a complement to) traditional written responses and papers
• Include a multimedia repository of videos and maps that enhances...