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Cross-Curricular Common Intellectual Experiences and Problem Based ActivitiesDevelop a Common Theme or Investigate a Common Problem See: Ohio University's Arts and Science Themes One potential project to propose is to develop a theme that could investigated across a few different courses or even across the college. For a general sense of some themes to consider, review Ohio University's general education “themes”. While replicating this program at RSCC may not be the end goal, the descriptions of the individual themes is a good place to start in developing a cross-curricular or common intellectual experience that will help students make connections between their classes and to "real-life" issues. The themes explored at Ohio University are: Becoming Human; Between Love and Hate; Food Studies; Knowing the Future; Making and Breaking the Law; Ohio: Sense of Place; Sustainability Studies; Technology & Society; War and Peace; Wealth and Poverty. Create an Interdisciplinary Unit/Lesson See: Design and embed a Multidisciplinary Unit For a detailed look at how to create a multidisciplinary unit or lesson see California's Connect Ed's guide. While the complete guide is a lot to digest, pages 25-31 have great examples based on an "Essential Question". Propose a Shared Book See shared intellectual/book experiences: AAC&U, OSU, Pellissippi Colleges and universities have for many years offered common book or common theme programs. The AAC&U has a good overview of some of the general elements of common intellectual experience. For specific examples, you can look at what has been done at The Ohio State and University and Pellissippi Community College. |
MathDevelop Lessons and Units with Concrete Applications A unit centered on personal finance that addresses students’ ability to estimate, calculate percentages and ratios, create a budget, and use basic excel formulas for calculations. (See Quantway Module 1 for an example unit). See: LaGuardia Community College Project Leap Use recent data from environmental impact studies and other data sources to develop policies for an airport to reduce its Co2 emissions. (See LaGuardia Community College Project Leap for example). |
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English and ReadingSee: Accelerated Learning Program--Collaborative Learning Developing an early term assignment that asks students to either write a college entrance essay or a career-related cover letter to a specific employer. The assignment could also ask students to conduct some initial research on the college or employer. (See ALPS) |
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Sciences and Social SciencesSee: National Science Foundation’s National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science Implementing one or more of the many problem-based projects from the National Science Foundation’s National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science. See: Delaware University Project Based Learning Database Ask students to participate in data gathering and analysis, with reference to scholarly articles in the context of current events that have had an emotional impact on the students. (See )
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Service Learning & BusinessSee: Roane State's Service-Learning Coordinator Roane State's service learning initiatives are coordinated by Sociology professor John Brown. Recent service-learning projects conducted at Roane State include: Political Science classes that have volunteered at local non-profits and reflected and wrote about the policies effecting these organizations, a Marketing class in which students created videos for local non-profits, and a GIS class mapping the Cumberland trail. See: GWU's Integration of Service-learning into Business Given how grounded most business classes are in real-life case-studies, they easily lend themselves to service-learning and addressing the needs of local businesses and service organization. George Washington University has archived a range of projects completed by their business classes. Projects include the creation of: survey, advertisements, handbooks, and process documentation. |
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Career and General Education Faculty CollaborationCareer and General Education Faculty can work together to produce a series of activities that help students in general education classes see the connection between the career courses and their general education classes. Faculty can work together to host a student forum where they discuss the connections between careers and general education. |
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General Delaware University Project Based Learning Database Ohio University's Arts and Science Themes Design and embed a Multidisciplinary Unit National Science Foundation’s National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science
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Sciences National Science Foundation’s National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science |
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English and Reading |
Cross Curricular & Common Intellectual Experiences Ohio University's Arts and Science Themes |
Service Learning |
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