[Bioundgrd] Fwd: new spring term 2005 ug seminar (joint MIT-Wellesley offering)

[Janice Chang]

>From:
>Holly Sweet
>ESG
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>Spring Term 2005:  NEW UNDERGRADUATE SEMINAR - open to all MIT and 
>Wellesley undergraduates
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>SP.249 Alternative Education (6 units p/f credit)
>Instructors:  Dr. Patti Christie (patti at mit.edu), Experimental Study 
>Group, MIT
>Professor Kenneth Hawes (khawes at wellesley.edu), Wellesley College
>Meeting time:  Tuesdays 7-9 p.m.
>Location:  First half of term at MIT (24-619), second half of term 
>at Wellesley College
>Prereq: N/A
>
>This joint Wellesley-MIT seminar will explore innovative and 
>alternative approaches to education. There will be a focus on 
>undergraduate programs such as those at Hampshire and Evergreen 
>Colleges,distance learning, and programs for adult learners. We will 
>critically examine alternative colleges with emphasis on student 
>life, how classes are taught, what makes this college different from 
>other colleges, and the college curriculum. It will be team-taught 
>by Wellesley and MIT faculty, with guest speakers from these and 
>other institutions. Half of the students will come from Wellesley 
>and half from MIT, and meetings will occur on both campuses. The 
>class will host and moderate a panel discussion on alternative 
>education with representatives from some of the colleges we have 
>studied. The final project will be to design an alternative college 
>which best suits each student's learning style.
>
>For more information contact Dr. Patti Christie (patti at mit.edu)
>
>
>Dr. Christie has taught chemistry and biology at ESG and at MIT for 
>the past five years and has initiated a seminar on Kitchen Chemistry 
>(SP.287) that is residence-based. She is interested in how people 
>learn best and views this seminar as an opportunity for students to 
>explore their own learning styles.
>
>Professor Hawes is a graduate of MIT (class of 68) and teaches 
>education at Wellesley College. He has worked with MIT students as 
>part of the MIT/Wellesley teacher education program for the past 
>twenty years, and has taught philosophy of education at MIT for four 
>years in the 1990s. He hopes this seminar will allow students to 
>explore the meaning of education, both in their own lives and in the 
>lives of others.