The War Room: A Semester-Long Campaign Simulation

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Abstract

This paper presents details of a semester-long simulation in which groups of students act as campaign staff for fictional U.S. Senate candidates. Tying individual tasks to content from a course on U.S. political behavior, the simulation supplements a team-based learning approach to course material and allows students to see how units within the course fit together (rather than being siloed in distinct modules). The paper offers a week-by-week schedule and a link to candidate bios for classroom use.

Author

• Wendy Lyn Watson