{"id":1667,"date":"2024-10-18T19:28:07","date_gmt":"2024-10-18T19:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worcester.edu\/magazine\/?p=1667"},"modified":"2024-10-23T20:05:32","modified_gmt":"2024-10-23T20:05:32","slug":"alex-briesacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worcester.edu\/magazine\/2024\/10\/18\/alex-briesacher\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Briesacher: Giving students intellectual freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1659 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.worcester.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2024\/10\/2.-Alex-Briesacher-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.worcester.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2024\/10\/2.-Alex-Briesacher-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.worcester.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2024\/10\/2.-Alex-Briesacher-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.worcester.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2024\/10\/2.-Alex-Briesacher.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><strong>Professor of Sociology, 2018 Alden Award Winner<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The course titles may stay the same from year to year, but Alex Briesacher never teaches the same class twice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Briesacher, professor of sociology, uses an experiential, student-centered approach he developed as a graduate student teaching courses at Kent State University. \u201cIt means every class is new and exciting and different,\u201d he said. \u201cI don\u2019t even do a lot of prep anymore. I just show up and ask them what they want to do, and we go from there.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Briesacher said he likes to create a supportive space for students and provide guidance on how to gather information for their research questions, but then he takes a step back.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI tell them, \u2018I\u2019ll show you how to do it, but you\u2019re going to be the one who does it because I don\u2019t know the answers to the questions you\u2019re asking,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">With that much intellectual freedom, students often surprise him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThey come up with very interesting things, and some pretty weird ones, too,\u201d he said. \u201cOne semester I had a student doing research on the scholarship structure at Worcester State, one doing research on the high school debate community, a student doing research on Black African identities, and another student researching funeral ceremonies. I\u2019m there saying, \u2018Let me show you how to do it, and you can apply it however you want.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Among the more creative concepts he encountered was the student who wanted to study paranormal sociology. Briesacher has no experience with the paranormal, but his open class structure allowed the student to pursue her offbeat interests, which involved studying attitudes about houses where a murder had taken place. That led to a class discussion about how one might effectively interview people about their belief in ghosts.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That discussion helped the student come up with an interviewing approach and turned the project toward a social psychology focus that led to surprising answers about the enduring allure of haunted places.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Briesacher knew his unstructured teaching approach would be a good one several years ago when he tried it out and student response was overwhelmingly positive. \u201cThey showed up half an hour before the class began. Some of them stayed an hour after the class, all talking to each other,\u201d he said. \u201cIt was a great class, and I started it with, \u2018We\u2019re just going to do this, and we\u2019ll see what happens.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor of Sociology, 2018 Alden Award Winner The course titles may stay the same from year to year, but Alex Briesacher never teaches the same class twice. 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