There isn't a lab portion to PHYS 632, the class I am currently enrolled in, so I couldn't design a graduate level pre-lab. While a graduate class with a lab portion would be nice, the hands-on physics of graduate school is left mainly to the student's research. And for good reason: upper level labs/research are considerably more time-consuming and require, for the most part, much more expensive equipment and computer software than a high school demonstration.
There also isn't the same need to engage graduate students in the classroom. We choose to be there and have a strong interest in learning material that will help us directly with our jobs and degrees. "The lecture mode appears to work best where instructor and students share a common set of beliefs and assumptions, such as in graduate classes."[1]
That said, one aspect of Bush Physics that would be cool to incorporate into graduate E&M at UAF is its Alaskan theme. So many people live in a place but never really experience its uniqueness, and Alaska is nothing if not unique.
I recently was given an informal tour of the HAARP site in Gakona, Alaska by the senior engineer of the project. (I had shown him how to use a diffraction grating earlier in the day, but it wasn't exactly a fair trade.) I was struck by how much of the material my professor had covered in class was mentioned on the tour, and to be honest, it was a pretty enlightening experience to see how electromagnetic theory was applied in the construction and maintenance of HAARP's antenna array.
The topic of index of refraction also applies directly to the research conducted using the array at HAARP. So if reading Jackson's Chapter 7 becomes a tad bit tedious, here is a quick aside about how the principle of refraction is studied 200 miles south of Fairbanks.
[1]Knight, Randall K. Five Easy Lessons:Strategies for Successful Physics Teaching. Addison Wesley (2004).