A Course Designed and Taught by Undergraduates Aims to Turn Students into Active Learners.

Wilson, Robin

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Publication Date: 1991

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A Course Designed and Taught by Undergraduates Aims to Turn Students into Active Learners.

Wilson, Robin

Chronicle of Higher Education, v37 n34 pA31-32 May 8 1991

As a result of the ideas of a university sophomore and senior and their dissatisfaction with the traditional lecture and exam format, George Washington University (Washington, D.C.) offers an experimental undergraduate course entitled "Confrontation and the Development of the Individual Mind." The English department course is taught by the two students. (MSE)

Descriptors: College Instruction, College Students, Course Organization, Curriculum Development, Higher Education, Instructional Innovation, Intellectual Development, Peer Teaching, Teaching Methods

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