Last year the Interdisciplinary Studies Advisory Board consulted with the faculty to draw up a list of ways in which collaboratively-taught and interdisciplinary courses are distinctive and the kinds of goals we have in teaching them. This summer we asked faculty members who taught these kinds of courses last year or who were planning to teach one this year to review the list and to indicate how significant each goal was for their course(s). The Advisory Board invites you to a lunch to review the results of this survey and to discuss how we can establish clear goals for these kinds of courses and how we can evaluate our success in attaining them. Based on what we hear at this lunch discussion, we will offer a subsequent lunch addressing strategies for setting and meeting course goals and some of the distinctive challenges posed in teaching EKI-type courses.

Facilitators: Interdisciplinary Studies Advisory Board
Date: Friday, October 31, 2008 in JRC226

Attending:
Eric Carter
George Drake
Jin Feng
Bill Ferguson
Terry Geller
Leslie Gregg-Jolly
Bob Grey
Chris Hunter
Judy Hunter
Cecilia Knight
Shonda Kuiper
Mark Levandoski
Dave Lopatto
Kent McClelland
Wayne Moyer
Glenn Odom
Sarah Purcell
Dan Reynolds
Monty Roper
Lee Running
Kathleen Skerrett
Marci Sortor
Elizabeth Trimmer