An interdisciplinary course explores the science in art conservation. (8/17/2007)
In a first-year science class at Hampshire College, students learn firsthand about bacteria's effects on food. (8/9/2007)
Students at Hofstra University study European civilization by spending 10 weeks traveling around the continent by minivan. (8/3/2007)
One undergraduate course at California State University-Channel Islands is positively beastly. (7/27/2007)
Students in a sports-management class at Lynn University study big-time athletics up close at the Final Four. (7/6/2007)
A historian and a comic-book artist at Juniata College show students the social meanings of superheroes. (6/29/2007)
Two professors at William Paterson University of New Jersey blend their disciplines, English and history, to produce a nuanced perspective on the First World War. (6/22/2007)
The president of Fairleigh Dickinson University teaches a class that encourages students to examine the connections between their own lives and global trends. (6/15/2007)
In "Models of Community Change," at the University of Denver, students learn about community activism by practicing it. (6/1/2007)
A paleontologist at the University of Chicago takes his students on dinosaur digs in Wyoming. (5/25/2007)
Students at George Mason University learn the factors related to personality that make happiness more likely in "The Science of Well-Being." (5/18/2007)
A professor's own grief informs a course on mourning in literature (5/11/2007)
A course at the University of Toledo gives students the chance to see both sides of the gun-control debate. (5/4/2007)
M.B.A. students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology put their management ideas into action on working trips to other countries. (4/27/2007)
An online course offered by Bluefield College and Ferrum College takes students along the Appalachian Trail. (4/20/2007)
A course at the University of Abertay Dundee, in Scotland, teaches students how to hack into computer systems; the hope is that what they learn will equip them to head off malicious attacks. (4/13/2007)
At Santa Clara University, a course called "The Joy of Garbage" involves no wasted effort. (3/30/2007)
Freshmen at Muhlenberg College debate the ethics of the diamond industry in a course taught by a scholar of De Beers. (3/23/2007)
A media-studies course at Columbia College Chicago takes three weeks to teach as much material on zombies as students can digest. (2/23/2007)
A statistics course at Carnegie Mellon University focuses on studies of the gay and lesbian population. (2/9/2007)
Students at Drake University tip sacred cows in a class on modern political satire. (2/2/2007)
A course at the College of New Jersey that includes some students with intellectual disabilities looks at the portrayal of such disabilities in literature and film. (1/19/2007)
A course at the University of Notre Dame takes a serious look at miracles. (1/5/2007)
Undergraduates in an introductory history class at Indiana State University do their own research on local history. (12/15/2006)
An assistant professor at Delaware
Valley College guides students through the veritas of vinos. (12/1/2006)
A professor at the University of South Florida teaches art appreciation for engineers. (11/24/2006)
Students taking an interdisciplinary class at Lehigh University design an athletics facility that the institution will actually build. (11/17/2006)
Students in a course at Gallaudet University translate one of Shakespeare's plays into American Sign Language. (11/3/2006)
Students at the University of New Hampshire can take a yearlong course in agricultural management that includes milking 26 cows at 3:45 a.m. (10/27/2006)
In an interdisciplinary course at Washington and Lee University on weapons of mass destruction, students begin by planning a terrorist attack on the United States. (10/13/2006)
In "The CEO Class," at Virginia Commonwealth University, business students get to listen to visiting chief executives from a variety of companies, and to ask questions that sometimes get personal. (9/29/2006)
An Israeli and a Palestinian team-teach a summer course on conflict resolution at the University of Maryland at College Park. (9/22/2006)
In a new course at Lipscomb University, business students turn to the Scriptures for advice on entrepreneurial ventures. (9/15/2006)
In "El Salvador: Election Observation and Democratic Participation," students in an election-observer course at Dominican University have put their learning to use as monitors in El Salvador. (9/8/2006)
In "Border Culture," at the University of Detroit Mercy and the University of Windsor students regularly made the crossing between the United States and Canada in an unusual course on border culture. (9/1/2006)
A longtime Washington insider teaches a course at George Washington University on the realities of lobbying. (8/4/2006)
A writing course at the Divinity School of Vanderbilt University brings together inmates and traditional students within the walls of a nearby prison. (7/28/2006)
Aspiring cops and academic rubbernecks learn the grisly details of murder investigation in a class at Santa Barbara City College. (7/7/2006)
A professor of communications at Rowan University guides students through an in-depth look at shopping centers. (6/30/2006)
An associate professor of interior design at Ursuline College teaches students about online buying and selling with eBay. (6/16/2006)
In an interdisciplinary course, an associate professor of electrical engineering at Santa Clara University asks students to think about a mathematical way to prove or disprove the existence of God. (6/9/2006)
"Exorcism and Prayer of Liberation," at a pontifical academy in Rome, deals with legal, medical, and pastoral aspects of demonic possession. (6/2/2006)
In "Technology in the Service of Espionage." students at Michigan State University can learn about the myths and realities of the spy world. (5/26/2006)
"Race and Housing," at Lake Forest College, leads students through the complex relationship between housing policy and race. (5/19/2006)
In "Fraud Examination," at Muhlenberg College, a special agent with the IRS teaches accounting students how to catch white-collar criminals. (5/12/2006)
In "A History of the Pig in America," students at Xavier University, in Cincinnati, learn about the city's bygone days of swine and roses. (5/5/2006)
A course at the University of Richmond's law school brings doctors and aspiring lawyers together to talk about medical malpractice. (4/7/2006)
In a freshman seminar, Carleton College students examine alcohol and alcoholism in America both as a historical subject and closer to home. (3/31/2006)
In "Issues in World History: Deviant Women," history students at the University of Denver learn about how women who exhibit "deviant" behavior are treated in various cultures. (3/24/2006)
In "Sociology of Love," at the University of Akron, students learn that falling head over heels is far more than a personal experience. (2/24/2006)
In "Interdisciplinary Design Studio," design students learn teamwork in a course at Woodbury University as they work on projects for a contest held by the Walt Disney Company. (2/17/2006)
A course at Wilkes University considers food as a carrier of cultural information. (2/3/2006)
In "Cabaret Theater," students explore radical cabaret and their own foibles in a course at Adelphi University. (1/27/2006)
In "Appetite for Design," an industrial-design course at the Pratt Institute, students learn about restaurants by dining out with their eyes open as well as their mouths. (1/13/2006)
"The Spirituality of Running," a Merrimack College course that is open only to serious practitioners, explores the deeper side of exercise. (1/6/2006)
"Geological Disaster Prevention," at the State University of New York at Buffalo, teaches disaster prevention from an ecological point of view. (12/16/2005)
"Nip, Tuck, Perm, Pierce, and Tattoo: Adventures With Embodied Culture," an honors seminar at Alfred University, looks at the ways people modify their bodies in the name of beauty and culture. (12/9/2005)
"Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll in Ancient Egypt," a course at the Johns Hopkins University, looks at the role of partying in the religious life of ancient Egypt. (12/2/2005)
In "National Lampoon Master Class," students at the University of Texas at Austin can learn comedy writing from the masters in a National Lampoon television-production course. (11/25/2005)
In "Economics of Philanthropy and the Nonprofit Sector," students at the University of Mary Washington create their own foundation and give out grants as part of an economics course on the nonprofit world. (11/18/2005)
In Counterfactual Reasoning, at James Madison University, students wonder what might have happened had history been different, and how their choices could affect the future. (11/11/2005)
In "Field Experience in Criminal Court," a Marymount University professor takes psychology students to court. (11/4/2005)
In "Critical Pornography Studies," at the University of Iowa students examine issues in pornography. (10/28/2005)
Students in a General Chemistry II course at Green Mountain College found that a Civil War-era doctor's bag contained some substances that aren't considered too healthy today. (10/21/2005)
In "Radio in Culture and Society," at Boston College, students get an ear-opening introduction to the first electronic mass medium. (10/14/2005)
In "Honors English 101," a course associated with Habitat for Humanity at the University of Cincinnati, students build a house before they construct an essay. (10/7/2005)
In "Death, Dying, and Suicide," students at Aurora University can study both the practical and the emotional sides of the subjects. (9/30/2005)
In "Urban Connections: Columbus Behind the Scenes," students from Ohio Dominican University get an inside look at the city of Columbus. (9/16/2005)
In "Science and Pseudoscience," an astronomer at Williams College teaches a course in which guest experts help students learn about science versus pseudoscience. (9/9/2005)
In "Adventure/Challenge Programming," at Temple University, therapeutic-recreation students can take an intensive course in which they climb ropes and engage in group challenges to learn how they can motivate others to gain trust and negotiating skills. (9/2/2005)
In "Fundamentals of Engineering Design," at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, students design and build robots to accomplish specific biomedical tasks. (8/5/2005)
In "Beginning Theatre Movement," at California State University at San Bernardino, students stage sword fights and other public struggles for good grades. (7/29/2005)
In "Communication Disabilities and Film," a communications course on disabilities at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro uses films and documentaries to develop students' understanding of the conditions. (7/22/2005)
In "Roller Coasters: Theory, Design, and Properties," a course at Bates College on the physics of roller coasters, students learn about the rides and then head out to the amusement park. (7/15/2005)
A professor at Gwynedd-Mercy College takes his class to the Big Easy, but his course "New Orleans History and Culture" is no piece of king cake. (7/8/2005)
In a seminar called, simply, "Baseball," seniors at Maryville College pursue the mathematics, history, and culture of our national pastime. (7/1/2005)
In "Forensic Sciences: How They Impact Your World," students at Case Western Reserve University learn that on the job, communicating their findings is just as crucial as developing their expertise. (6/24/2005)
In "Intergenerational Creative Nonfiction Writing," students at Ursinus College learn about the life stories of patrons of a nearby senior center. (6/17/2005)
In "Motown," at Indiana University at Bloomington, students do some listening, some dancing, and a lot of thinking. (6/10/2005)
In "What Is This Thing? What Good Is It?," a history course at Wofford College, students learn about research by examining the origins of their own family treasures. (5/27/2005)
Students at the University of North Florida hit the rails in a nine-day course aboard Amtrak to study anthropology and environmental science. (5/20/2005)
In "Theories of Motivation," students at Ripon College learn the subject from within. (5/13/2005)
In "Farmworkers," an interdisciplinary seminar at Cornell University, undergraduates learn firsthand about who puts the food on their tables. (4/15/2005)
In "Creative Genius," at Clemson University, students explore the nature of genius, brilliance, and inspiration. (3/25/2005)
"Food: From Farming to Feasts," at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, provides students with food for creative thought. (3/04/2005)
In "The Southern California Regional Economy," the first assignment in Goetz Wolff's class this quarter was to go shopping -- not at just any store, though. (2/25/2005)
"Walk Tall: Beauty, Meaning, and Politics in the Lyrics of Bruce Springsteen," a course on Bruce Springsteen, teaches students to think about the relationship between music and politics. (2/18/2005)
"Anti-Americanism: Hating the U.S. at Home and Abroad," a course at Clemson University, speaks for itself. (2/11/2005)
"Reading and Writing Buffalo" takes students at Hilbert College beyond the stereotype of New York's "Queen City." (2/4/2005)
In "Sociology of Video Games," students at the University of Sioux Falls study the complex narratives and broad cultural impact of video games like Grand Theft Auto. (1/28/2005)
In "Theology of Marriage," at Santa Clara University, students are encouraged to go "sit on the couch with the cat hair" as they interview married couples to "get a taste of that reality." (1/21/2005)
In "User-Oriented Collaborative Design," a course at the Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering, students consult with specific groups of users before coming up with devices to help them. (1/14/2005)
In "Sherlock Holmes and the Scientific Method," a course at Smith College, a geology professor gives his students a down-to-earth understanding of the fictional detective's work. (1/7/2005)
"Film Technology," a course on the intersection of business and technology in film, brings together liberal-arts and business students at Emory University. (12/10/2004)
Students in "Clinical Microbiology" at Merrimack College not only study AIDS, they also raise money to buy medicine for people in Nigeria who have it. (11/26/2004)
In "The U.S. and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict," students at Queens College of the City University of New York take on a challenge that has stymied generations of diplomats. (11/19/2004)
Students learn how to make a connection with someone different from themselves by interviewing a 94-year-old man for "Corporate and Professional Communication" at Aurora University. (11/12/2004)
A law professor at the University of Pennsylvania has students help him draw up a new criminal code for the Maldives. (11/5/2004)
A professor at Hartwick College hopes that applying theoretical knowledge to real problems makes his economics course more interesting. (10/29/2004)
In "Advent of the Atomic Bomb," at Colgate University, a geology professor has students describe what a nuclear attack would do to their hometowns. (10/22/2004)
In "Fundamentals of Music," at Birmingham-Southern College, students compose an opera. (10/8/2004)
Syracuse University! Caught in the act of offering a course in celebrity journalism! (10/1/2004)
At Alfred University, a course in stinginess teaches students to live on a dollar a day. (9/17/2004)
"Molds, Plants, Buildings, and Public Health," at Texas A&M University at Kingsville, was inspired by one professor's taking sick at a friend's house. (9/10/2004)
In "Down at the Crossroads," students at Dominican University get a front-row view of rock 'n' roll and the blues. (8/13/2004)
In the sociology course "Hidden Communities," students at Illinois Wesleyan University visit places that they are unlikely to go to on their own. (7/30/2004)
Students in "Presidential Campaigns and Conventions," at Northeastern University, get a firsthand sense of the presidential nominating process from their professor, Michael S. Dukakis. (7/23/2004)
Students throw mock bachelor parties and bridal showers in "Gender in World Cultures" at the College of Wooster. (7/16/2004)
At Chatham College, students trace Pittsburgh's transformation from sooty industrial giant to center of "green" awareness. (7/2/2004)
In "Art and Math," at Case Western Reserve University, students learn about the mathematics of the pineapple, among other things. (5/28/2004)
Business students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology learn the pros and cons of sending American jobs overseas. (5/14/2004)
Ann Tuttle, an assistant professor of management at Keuka College, asks students to watch the television show Survivor as part of her organizational-behavior course. (4/30/2004)
In "Women, Plants, and Politics," at Allegheny College, an unlikely combination of subjects makes for a lively and stimulating course. (4/9/2004)
In "A History of Food and Eating in America," at the Johns Hopkins University, students learn to think about the global consequences of their dietary choices. (4/2/2004)
Students in "Forensic Accounting," at Central Michigan University, work with IRS agents to create scenarios of real-world evidence-gathering. (3/26/2004)
"The Seventies -- More Than an In-Between Decade," a sophomore seminar at Wheeling Jesuit University, gives credit to an oft-disparaged era. (3/19/2004)
As part of "Special Topics in Cuban Culture," Tufts University students visit museums, hospitals, and schools in Cuba. (3/5/2004)
"Television Histories as Collective Memory," at Old Dominion University, examines how TV affects viewers' perceptions of reality. (2/27/2004)
At Hampshire College, one class of students builds a bike shelter as if it were a cathedral. (2/13/2004)
The deeper aspects of sport are explored in "Basketball as Religion," at Centre College. (2/6/2004)
Students at Furman University learn about medical sociology and ethics firsthand during an intensive clinical internship. (1/30/2004)
At Virginia Wesleyan College, a course on adventure travel takes students first to a ski resort in the Blue Ridge Mountains and then to Hawaii, where they hike, bike, and surf. (1/23/2004)
Playing is part of the homework in a course at Cornell University on computer-game design. (1/9/2004)
In "Life of the Mind," students at Fairleigh Dickinson University and experts from around the world "discuss" online the practical applications of philosophy. (12/5/2003)
Non-computer-science majors get a taste of programming and ethics in "Is Big Brother Watching?: Privacy and Security on the Internet," at Hampshire College. (11/28/2003)
In a biology course at Roger Williams University, students have the unusual opportunity to study, repair, and assemble a whale's skeleton for a museum exhibition. (11/7/2003)
In "Projects in Art and Technology: Multimedia Improvisation," at Northwestern University, students make up the course material as they go along. (10/31/2003)
"Cannibalism: the Good, the Bad, and the Deadly," at the University of California at Riverside, provides students with food for thought. (10/17/2003)
Students at the Johns Hopkins University put together a museum exhibition. (10/10/2003)
Students in "Philanthropy and the Nonprofit Sector," at Davidson College, dole out $10,000 to those in need. (9/26/2003)
In "Creative Writing," at St. Francis College, students discuss not only the art of writing, but also the business of marketing it. (9/19/2003)
In "Cave Biology," students at Old Dominion University get a bat's-eye view of life underground. (8/8/2003)
In "Roman History," a course at Utah State University, the professor is a goddess, and the students battle it out for control of the Senate. (8/1/2003)
An interdisciplinary course at Northwestern University teaches students about one singing group's long and winding road. (7/18/2003)
Students learn how to cope with death in "Issues at the End of Life: a Multidisciplinary Service-Learning Course" at Susquehanna University. (7/11/2003)
Students learn what it takes to be a failure in "Great Losers in History" at Clemson University. (7/4/2003)
Students step into the shoes of embassy workers in "The Politics of Diplomacy" at Eastern Michigan University. (6/20/2003)
A course at the University of Virginia's business school uses Shakespeare, Sartre, and Stoppard to teach ethics and leadership. (6/13/2003)
Walker White teaches a course at the University of Dallas in which reassuring math-phobic students is the goal. (6/6/2003)
An entomologist at Ohio State University at Columbus uses music to help teach an introductory biology course. (5/30/2003)
A political-science professor teaches about the civil-rights movement through the power of song. (5/16/2003)
Students at the University of Dayton take an "inner journey" toward an understanding of myth, the Bible, and literature. (5/2/2003)
Students in "Globalization and Folk Craft Production," at the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa, make pots and learn about pricing. (4/25/2003)
An English professor at the University of Utah finds plenty of useful material for his class on "Contemporary Propaganda" during a time of war. (4/18/2003)
"The Politics of Iraq" is a class at the United States Naval Academy that reverberates with timeliness. (4/4/2003)
Students work in teams while taking "Sports and Society in Ancient Greece and Rome" at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. (3/28/2003)
A philosophy professor at Fordham University drew hordes of students to a seminar on the philosophical elements of J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy trilogy, "The Lord of the Rings." (3/21/2003)
In "Introduction to Robotics," students discover the meaning of robots and how to make them. (3/14/2003)
"God, Evolution, and Culture" is a course at Juniata College in which four professors help students to examine "the cultural underpinnings of evolutionary and creationist thinking." (3/7/2003)
The "Dean's Book Course" at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst treats honors students to great works. (2/28/2003)
Wellesley College students learn about the culture and science of Lake Baikal and then travel to it to conduct research. (2/21/2003)
Students at Centre College learn the connection between frozen waterfalls and Kant. (2/14/2003)
An assistant professor of biology at Marist College bumps off administrators and frames colleagues to teach "The Science of Forensics" to nonscience majors. (2/7/2003)
"The Clinton Presidency" at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock is among the first college courses to examine the controversial man from Hope. (1/10/2003)
Millsaps College's "Superscience" course is like a science buffet: portions of biology, chemistry, geology, and physics. (1/3/2003)
A Princeton University professor has adopted a peer-led approach to teaching organic chemistry. (12/13/2002)
A course at San Francisco State University focuses on the symbols of terrorism. (12/6/2002)
An instructor at New York's School of Visual Arts begins each class with a half hour of meditation, to heighten students' awareness. (11/29/2002)
What do students learn in "The Analytical Methods of Sherlock Holmes," a chemistry course at Wake Forest University? It's elementary, dear reader. (11/22/2002)
An interdisciplinary course in philosophy and English at Huntingdon College draws connections between Diogenes and Bart Simpson to help students apply ancient Greek ideas to contemporary culture. (11/15/2002)
In "Electronic Critique Lab: Necromedia and Posthumanity," students at the University of Detroit Mercy learn about literary criticism and computer science. (11/8/2002)
In "The Physics of Sailing and Rowing," Yale University students learn the scientific principles that underlie the sports. (11/1/2002)
The relationships among scientific fields are explored in "Interdisciplinary Laboratory," a course at Harvey Mudd College. (10/25/2002)
Students in a popular-culture course at Syracuse University deconstruct the events during 113 theoretical seconds at a McDonald's restaurant. (10/18/2002)
In a graduate journalism course at the University of California at Berkeley, students build and maintain a Weblog about issues of intellectual property. (10/11/2002)
At Muhlenberg College, one course isn't digital at all -- it's prestidigital. (10/4/2002)
Students are encouraged to analyze themselves in "The Psychology of Personality" at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. (9/27/2002)
A mutual fund selects its holdings based on students' research in a finance course at Tulane University. (9/20/2002)
Students get hooked on physics in "Music and Sound" at the University of Toledo. (9/6/2002)
At the University of Cincinnati, freshmen in an English-composition sequence produce writing about AIDS and HIV that reaches beyond the campus. (8/9/2002)
A physical-education course at Ottawa University looks beyond athleticism and fitness.
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A comparative-religions professor at Lehigh University uses Elvis to teach students about world religions. (7/26/2002)
A molecular biologist at Princeton University says a computer simulation of the human immune system has proved to be a deft teaching tool. (7/19/2002)
In a course on labor law at Indiana University, students can go on strike to push for shorter papers -- but the professor can threaten to move the class overseas to find cheaper workers. (7/5/2002)
Students in a biomedical-engineering course at Tulane University design and make devices that help disabled people. (6/21/2002)
In a course on constitutional history at Union College, in New York, students re-enact key Supreme Court cases. (6/14/2002)
At the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, students learn physics in a super way through "Science in Comic Books." (5/31/2002)
"Site and Landscape Design," at Washington State University, encourages students to examine the relationships among a structure, its location, and its designer. (5/24/2002)
Students sing and dance in an experiential art-appreciation course at Indiana University at Kokomo. (5/3/2002)
In one calculus course at Fullerton College, the professor enlists a guitar, trumpet, and trombone to bring a mathematical concept alive. (4/26/2002)
At Aurora University, students in "Business Golf" learn acumen and aces. (4/19/2002)
In "On the Frontier Between Fiction and Non-Fiction," a new seminar in creative writing at Bryn Mawr College, visiting authors do much of the teaching by sharing their own experience. (4/5/2002)
At the University of California at Irvine, a Web site helps students in one English class learn the rhythm of poetry. (3/29/2002)
In "Hispanics in the United States," Belmont University students learn Spanish by working in places where people speak it. (3/22/2002)
Team teaching helps give students a sense of how decisions really get made, in "Environmental Science, Policy and the Law," at Boise State University. (3/8/2002)
In an architecture course at Syracuse University, students discuss the dreams of America's first town planners. (3/1/2002)
Millikin University students who are failing introductory chemistry get a second chance to succeed in a course called "Chemistry Extreme." (2/22/2002)
In "Textile and Apparel Product Development," at Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge, students read fashion magazines to seek out current trends in exotic leather, among other things. (2/15/2002)
In "Failure Analysis and Accident Reconstruction," at the University of Louisville, engineering students examine police reports, court transcripts, and technical journals to suss out the causes of collisions on the road. (2/1/2002)
In English Composition I at Darton College, a professor of English composition uses a game-show format to teach his students to pass the Regents' essay test. (1/25/2002)
In "An Introduction to the Origin and Development of Civilization Focusing on Egyptian Civilization," at Utah State University, students play a computer game called "Who's Mummy Is It?" (1/18/2002)
"Creativity and Method in Comparative Research," at Yale University, purposely bucking a trend toward quantitative analysis in political science, has students focus on the birth of great ideas. (12/14/2001)
In "Advocacy in the Digital World," freshmen at Dickinson College learn how to weigh in on the Web regarding issues that interest them. (12/7/2001)
In "Banned and Burned: Controversial Texts in American Literature and Culture," at Carleton College, students' attention perked up when they started discussing Lolita. (11/30/2001)
In "Introduction to Writing/Basic Photography," a pair of linked courses at Birmingham-Southern College, students learn two creative crafts, and do a combined final project. (11/23/2001)
In "Oral Histories of War and Peace," students at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville interview veterans of World War II. (11/16/2001)
In "Human Biology: Selected Topics in Medicine," at Hampshire College, students examine real-life medical case studies to learn about the body. (11/9/2001)
In "German Conversation and Composition," at Pennsylvania State University at University Park, German-language students "telecollaborate" with their peers at the Pedagogical University of Heidelberg. (11/2/2001)
In "Seeing History," at St. Lawrence University, the classroom is the outdoors, and the subject matter is a fusion of cultural and natural history. (10/26/2001)
In "Ethical Issues in Biotechnology," at Utah State University, students learn both the science and the ethics behind major advances in the field. (10/19/2001)
In "Mathematics and the Art of M.C. Escher," at Saint Louis University, students work backward to understand the mathematical processes behind the artist's mesmerizing patterns, and then create their own designs. (10/12/2001)
In "Twentieth-Century Analysis," Anthony K. Brandt teaches students of music theory at Rice University how to appreciate the unexpected. (10/5/2001)
In "The University in Literature," at the University of Maine at Orono, the president joins in teaching undergraduate English majors and graduate students in education about the variety of interests -- and perspectives -- in an academic institution. (9/14/2001)
In "Weight Control," a first-year seminar in the University of California at Berkeley's psychology department, personal experience -- including the professor's -- plays a key role. (8/17/2001)
In "Values, the Educational Experience, and Intercollegiate Athletics," at Princeton, students examine the ethical questions inherent in college sports. (8/10/2001)
Students in "Homelessness & Shelter," at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, get an intimate look at the plight of those living on the street. (8/3/2001)
In "Producing Historical Documentaries for Broadcast and Internet Radio," at the State University of New York at Albany, budding historians are taught to think about radio documentaries, as well as scholarly books, as outlets for their work. (7/27/2001)
In "Investment and Portfolio Management," students at the University of La Verne learn a lesson by investing $100,000 of the institution's endowment. (7/20/2001)
In "Special Topics in Sculpture: The Unuseless Idea," at Millsaps College, students make ostensibly useless objects in order to learn about what's really useful. (7/13/2001)
A freshman tutorial at Wabash College teaches students at the all-male institution about "Men and Masculinity." (6/29/2001)
In "Catastrophic Failures," at Pennsylvania State University at University Park, budding engineers learn how unanticipated factors can lead to accidents and tragedies. (6/22/2001)
In "Under the Floorboards: Hidden Art of the Holocaust," at Elmira College, students must answer one question about the artists who risked their lives to scratch out drawings in concentration camps: Why did they do it? (6/15/2001)
In "Analogy, Mathematics, and Poetry" at Rochester Institute of Technology, professors of mathematics and literature lead students in exploring the surprising crossovers of two very different disciplines. (6/8/2001)
In the redesigned "General Zoology," at Berea College, students get hands-on experience in devising methods of collecting data from flatworms, butterflies, and sea anemones, among other creatures. (5/25/2001)
In "Life on Mars?," at Dartmouth College, professors of medicine, earth science, and literature give students an interdisciplinary look at the Red Planet. (5/18/2001)
At the University of Cincinnati, a professor tries to relate biology to the everyday lives of students and the everyday concerns of society. (5/11/2001)
At the Community College of Denver, a professor gets students excited about U.S. history by turning the classroom into a stage. (5/4/2001)
At the University of Rochester, peer-led workshops change the way organic chemistry is taught -- and learned. (4/27/2001)
At Western Michigan University, an English professor gets her students excited about children's literature by having them write not a paper on the topic but a textbook instead. (4/20/2001)
In "Law and the Holocaust," a course at the University of Pennsylvania, students explore the legal underpinnings of the Nazi regime and the use of courts to punish war criminals. (4/6/2001)
At the State University of New York at Buffalo, a virtual mother hen makes basic calculus a little less intimidating. (3/30/2001)
At Boston College, students learn firsthand about the high drama of classical mythology. (3/23/2001)
At Samford University, a problem-based approach to introductory geography teaches students the discipline is about more than facts and figures. (3/16/2001)
At Cornell University, a why-care-about-design course shows students how the field affects everything from potato peelers to Apollo 13. (3/9/2001)
At Pacific Lutheran University, a historian puts a community-service spin on contemporary issues in U.S. history. (3/2/2001)
At Northampton Community College, nonscience majors role-play their way through a basic biology class. (2/23/2001)
At Davidson College, a physicist uses virtual simulations to teach students the basics of the field. (2/16/2001)
At the University of Denver, a labor-law professor teaches his students about unions by having them form one of their own. (2/9/2001)
At Ferrum College, a biology professor turns his introductory plant-science course into a virtual herbarium. (2/2/2001)
At Bucknell University, students in an introductory course on management learn how to build relationships -- and businesses -- from the ground up. (1/26/2001)
At Lafayette College, students in a seminar on "Literature and Science" read novels, plays, poems, and journal articles that highlight the rhetoric and imaginative excitement of life in the laboratory. (1/19/2001)
Students role-play on the geopolitical stage in "International Crisis Management" at George Mason University. (1/12/2001)
The introductory chemistry course at Florida Atlantic University, "General Chemistry I," takes an approach that has sharply cut the number of failures. (1/5/2001)
At Yale University, the non-science majors in "Frontiers and Controversies in Astrophysics," an introductory course, try to keep pace with the frantic pace of discoveries as they learn that science stands still for no one. (12/15/2000)
At Hilbert College, students in "Forensic Accounting and Auditing" learn how to be financial detectives, primed to ferret out white-collar crime. (12/8/2000)
At Southern Methodist University, a professor uses Carl Sagan's "baloney detector kit" to help students separate bogus theories from bona-fide scholarship. Together, they explore such phenomena as Noah's ark and the Cardiff "giant" in "Fantastic Archaeology." (12/1/2000)
At Saint Michael's College, a Roman Catholic institution in Vermont, students in an honors seminar are forced to confront their church's role in extermination of 12 million people, in "The Holocaust." (11/24/2000)
Carleton College students work on farms and study geology and English in "Agriculture and the American Midwest: Literature and the Environment." (11/17/2000)
Kent State University students reflect on conflict management in "Nonviolence: Theory and Practice." (11/10/2000)
Science-averse students can fulfill a requirement with little pain in "Impact of Chemistry" at Rutgers University at New Brunswick. (11/3/2000)
Agamemnon and Beowulf come to life in Bentley College's "Introduction to Mythology and Folklore." (10/27/2000)
In "Religion and Ecology," at Emory University, students meditate and take hikes to study how religions relate to the natural world. (10/20/2000)
"The American Classics in Context," a freshman seminar at Hampshire College, is as much a study of canon formation as it is a sweeping survey of the American literary landscape. (10/13/2000)
In a bioengineering seminar at Tulane University called "Brave New World," students read Aldous Huxley and other science-fiction writers to study medical ethics. (10/6/2000)
In "The Rhetoric of Hitler and Churchill," at Idaho State University, students learn the art of persuasion by studying the speeches of two pros. (9/29/2000)
Nautilus shells and cricket chirps are among the audiovisual teaching tools in "Introduction to College Math" at the University of California at Riverside. (9/22/2000)
Undergraduates in the College of New Jersey's "Oral History" course explore how history is made, by interviewing local people. (9/15/2000)
In "Matter & Interactions I," at Carnegie Mellon University, students devise three-dimensional computer models of reality to learn about physics. (9/8/2000)
In "Psychoneuroimmunology," at the University of Chicago, students examine links between the mind and the immune system. (8/18/2000)
Day-to-day events will determine the content of American University's "Presidential Campaign 2000: Inside the War Room and the News Room." (8/11/2000)
Students in "Fishes, Reptiles, and Amphibians of the Tropics," at Northern Illinois University, get a "fish-cam" view of resources at Chicago's Shedd aquarium. (8/4/2000)
In "Global Disasters: Science and Policy," at Georgia State University, students get an introduction to emergency management on a practical level. (7/28/2000)
In "Cybergrrls and Wired Women," at the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, students explore the effects of the information age on women. (7/21/2000)
Students in "Island Life," at the College of the Atlantic, learn human and natural history by spending the month of August just off the Maine coast. (7/14/2000)
"Construction for Humanity," a joint course in history and civil engineering at Union College (N.Y.), examines why people build the way they do. (7/7/2000)
"Sweatshops," a cultural-studies course at Occidental College, is an amalgam of history, economics, public policy, and moral philosophy. (6/30/2000)
In "The Dramaturgical Approach to Psychology," at Wesleyan University, students design dramatic ways to examine human attributes. (6/23/2000)
In "Architoons," at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, students create animated videos about architectural ideas. (6/16/2000)
"Juilliard Jazz Studies," the music school's first formal program in the field. (6/9/2000)
Psychology 250, at the University of Virginia, uses a CD-ROM to teach child development. (6/2/2000)
Engineering 101, at Case Western Reserve U., gives freshmen an introduction to the discipline that is anything but dry and abstract. (5/26/2000)
Africana Studies 4900, "Cyberspace and the Black Experience" at the University of Toledo, examines the impact of the information age. (5/19/2000)
Management 6056, 'Electronic Commerce,' at Georgia Tech (5/12/2000)
Comparative Literature 230, a course at Smith College, focuses on stories about mothers who kill their children. (5/5/2000)
American-Studies Course at Princeton Tackles Nation's Preoccupation With Wealth (4/28/2000)
Food-Science Course Teaches French Through Culinary Concepts (4/21/2000)
U. of Oregon Journalism Students Learn to Separate Good Information From Bad (4/14/2000)
History 211 at U. of Connecticut Offers Lessons in Historian's Craft (4/7/2000)
