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Developing Students' Sociotechnical Thinking in the Humanities-Engineering Classroom: A Treatment versus Control Study Using a Scenario-Based Assessment
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Lori Czerwionka; Siddhant S. Joshi; Gabriel O. Rios-Rojas; Kirsten A. Davis – Journal of Engineering Education, 2025
Background: Engineering problems are open-ended and complex, involving technical and social aspects, yet engineering education focuses on technical training and closed-ended problems. To prepare engineering students, curricula should foster sociotechnical thinking--the ability to consider the interplay of technical and social factors during…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Humanities Instruction, Thinking Skills, Problem Solving
Brave New Worlds: Transcending the Humanities/STEM Divide through Creative Writing
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Watkins, Adam; Tehrani, Zahra – Honors in Practice, 2020
Creative writing offers a critical and innovative form of inquiry promoting integrative learning that transcends disciplinary barriers. Authors first provide an overview of the scholarship on creative writing pedagogy, its unique capacity to engage a range of knowledge domains, and its significance for honors education. They then offer primary…
Descriptors: Humanities, STEM Education, Creative Writing, Interdisciplinary Approach
Giant Leaps for the Liberal Arts at Purdue
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Zook, Melinda S. – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2019
Both majors and course enrollments in the liberal arts have been in decline since the recession of 2007. The College of Liberal Arts at Purdue University has sought to reverse this by offering a new outreach program to science, technology, engineering, and math, and management students called Cornerstone. Cornerstone is a 15-credit-hour…
Descriptors: Liberal Arts, Higher Education, STEM Education, College Faculty
The Impacts of Integrating Introductory Composition, Communication, and Design Thinking Courses
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Chesley, Amelia; Coots, Michael W.; Jackson, Andrew; Knapp, Sarah; Mentzer, Nathan; Laux, Dawn – Journal of Technology Education, 2018
Much recent STEM research indicates that course integration improves the student learning experience and fosters stronger connections among concepts and skills; this study attempts to evaluate whether or not students learn the design process more fully in the integrated version of a required first-year course, Design Thinking in Technology.…
Descriptors: Design, Interdisciplinary Approach, Writing (Composition), Freshman Composition
It Was a Time of Confusion: Managing Uncertainty in a New, Competency-Based Polytechnic Program
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Miller, Kurtis D. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Higher education in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) faces a number of challenges. There are many calls for STEM education to make significant changes moving forward, including calls for competency-based learning and greater integration of the humanities. These efforts require systemic change. Systemic change has significant…
Descriptors: Ambiguity (Context), Educational Change, Competency Based Education, Communication Research
Linking Classes: Learning Communities, "High" Culture, and the Working Class Student
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Rodriguez, Ginger G.; Buczinsky, Christopher – Learning Communities: Research & Practice, 2013
How do you teach the humanities to working class students living in the shadow of a BP oil refinery? Calumet College uses freshman learning communities that link humanities, social justice, and English composition classes to provide a foundation for college success to predominantly first-generation students who are often underprepared for…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Student Needs, Humanities, Working Class