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Direct linkReynolds, Candyce; Stevens, Dannelle D.; West, Ellen – College Teaching, 2013
Creative thinking skills are essential for today's workplace. Three faculty members from different professional schools (business, higher education administration, teacher education) examined student responses to the creative assignments in their courses. The assignments exemplify the following criteria: invited taking risks, encouraged innovative…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Professional Education, Creative Thinking, Thinking Skills
Gibson, Laura – College Teaching, 2011
Student engagement and retention is a concern of many university professors. To engage sophomore-level students in a Sociology of Aging class, I challenged them to design the course in a way that would make the outcome personally meaningful to them. The class was asked to identify specific learning objectives related to the university's course…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Feedback (Response), Assignments, Course Content
Goldstein, Gary; Fernald, Peter – College Teaching, 2009
Capstone courses emphasize students' experiences and learning, rather than course content. This emphasis is consistent with principles and practices fundamental to humanistic education. Here we describe a capstone course, "Internship," that includes five features consistent with humanistic education: (1) student-centered learning, (2) empathic…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Humanistic Education, Experiential Learning, Course Content
East, Katheryn – College Teaching, 2009
"Melioration" is borrowing and using an idea from another field not closely associated with your field of expertise. Using the borrowed concept to address a challenge in your field potentially provides new avenues of action and insight. I borrow the concept of boundary objects from science fields and use it to examine assignments in the college…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Interdisciplinary Approach, Information Needs, Active Learning
Peer reviewedRouyer, Alwyn R. – College Teaching, 1995
A University of Idaho introductory course in political science describes basic concepts, institutions, and processes of politics and relate their importance to students' daily lives. The course is comparative in organization and structured to promote critical and analytical thinking about politics. (MSE)
Descriptors: Assignments, College Instruction, Comparative Analysis, Course Content
Peer reviewedBrent, Rebecca; Felder, Richard M. – College Teaching, 1992
This article discusses college-level writing assignments designed to stimulate students to (1) explore initial student attitudes, (2) activate prior knowledge, (3) increase subject relevance, (4) clarify and organize course material, (5) connect new and previously known material, (6) improve critical thinking skills, and (7) develop and strengthen…
Descriptors: Assignments, Classroom Techniques, College Instruction, Course Content
