Designing Courses for Pracademic Learning.

A conference paper about courses for pracademic learning is presented which was prepared for presentation at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association in New Orleans, Louisiana, on September 1, 2012. The term pracademics is defined as the mixture of academic and practitioner roles. The paper discusses the concept of pracademic learning experiences from the point of view of course design and using a faculty member's praaademic experience to enhance the classroom.