Course info

Course name, Leveraging the Common Reading for GLO Goals

General Education Type of course First Year Seminar


About the course

Upcoming Classes

No classes scheduled

Description

Faculty attending this workshop will design an assignment that uses this year’s Common Reading book, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah. This workshop will assist faculty in the design or re-design of an assignment to meet the GLO Learning Goal of Cultivating Intercultural Competence by Examining a Single Issue from Multiple Perspectives.

Objectives

  • Implement an assignment that demonstrates their students can examine a single issue from multiple perspectives.

Prerequisites

  • Familiarize yourself with the Common Reading book, A Long Way Gone
  • Bring either a FYS assignment related to the book or simply a willingness to develop one in this workshop.

Administrators

  • Elaine Gray

Please contact a course administrator for additional information.