General education essentials: a guide for college faculty

INDICE: Foreword xiAbout the Author xvAcknowledgments xviiIntroduction 1PART ONE: THE BIG PICTURE 91 Structuring General Education 112 Some Examples of Integrative Curricular Models 25PART TWO: GENERAL EDUCATION AT THE COURSE LEVEL433 Designing Effective General Education Courses 454 How the Purposes of General Education Can Reshape a Course: Case Studies 54PART THREE: GENERAL EDUCATION AT THE ASSIGNMENT AND ASSESSMENT LEVEL 735 Designing Appropriate Assignments for General Education 756 The Chapter You May Want to Skip: Institutional Assessment and General Education 94Conclusion 107Appendix A: Syllabus for Artistic and Literary Responses to Science and Technology 109Appendix B: Syllabus for The Way Things Work: Sky Diving and Deep Sea Diving 117Appendix C: Syllabusfor Traveling Without Leaving: Global Sociology 125Appendix D: Syllabus for Elite Deviance: Crime in the Suites 137Appendix E: Syllabus for Does Gun Control Save Lives? 145Appendix F: Syllabus for Statistics and Botany 151References 157Index 161

• ISBN: 978-1-118-32185-0
• Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 192
• Fecha Publicación: 03/05/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés