Last semester I reinvented English composition as a community-service learning course. My students did the usual work of any composition course — developing basic writing skills, crafting narrative ...

The literature survey course is taught at most colleges and universities. Its content and pedagogy are debated frequently at disciplinary meetings and in faculty lounges. A new collection of essays ...

Regarding Wight Martindale Jr.’s op-ed “This Old Man, He Teaches History” (Nov. 17): After several decades in a business-school classroom, I can concur with the author’s “rule No. 1,” his emphasis on ...

Researchers sometimes ask, “What is the best way to learn my subjects’ characteristics?” Often, the answer is simply to “just ask them!” The survey is a popular research tool that comes with ...

Annual spending on college course materials fell to a decade low last academic year, due in large part to the continuing shift toward digital materials. But a new study finds that college students ...

Sometimes it is necessary to re-think the courses we teach in a fundamental way. By 2019, I had taught a survey course on British history before 1660 (HIST 1113) for a decade. Although I tweaked the ...

Are survey courses what they might be? Four years have passed since a special faculty committee of the University recommended the institution of the lower division system, which includes these ...

Instructor and Course Evaluation System (ICES) is a web-based course evaluation tool to help evaluate courses and instructors. The electronic questionnaire allows students to provide feedback, which ...

It’s that time of the year again: course evaluations! The Course Feedback Forms pop-up has become inescapable in this last stretch of the semester. As annoying as it can be, we should all take full ...