In order to get students more personally involved in the learning process, students are given the responsibility of choosing four debate topics that are then used to formulate the questions used in the formal debates in the course.
Through a combination of guided discussion and voting students decide as a group what they will research and debate.
This gives studetns the opportunity to be directly involved in what they will study. On of the guiding principles of this practice is that student involvement and focus on task are increased when they are allowed to pursue what interests them and given some control over what they study.
The specific instruction for the practice are in the attached document.