Deadline Extended!
Tweet Were you thinking about being an Explorations or Perspectives Leader, but didn’t get your application in before break? Here’s your chance! We’ve extended the deadline, so get in touch with us ASAP. Call 617-627-3384 or email excollege@tufts.edu to discuss the timeline. DO IT NOW!
Knowing and Believing in John Steinbeck
Tweet Written by Madeline Hall (A13), who co-taught the fall 2012 Explorations seminar “Steinbeck’s Humanity.” Teaching my Explorations seminar was perhaps the single most beneficial academic choice I made at Tufts; the curiosity and depth of the student’s inquiries shed greater light on the worth of John Steinbeck’s East of Eden than I could have [...]
The Express!
Tweet Friday, February 1 Join the ExCollege: Become a Board Member or a Peer Leader! Dive into the inner-workings of the ExCollege by joining the ExCollege Board or becoming an Explorations or Perspectives Peer Leader. The ExCollege Board consists of 5 faculty members and 5 students and meets once per month. The Board tackles policy, [...]
Explorations: An Experience that Enhances a College Career
Tweet The following blog post comes to you from John Dame, current junior and co-teacher of the fall 2012 Explorations class NCAA: Athletes, Sports, and Money. In the spring of 2012, my classmate Jon Sobo approached me about teaching an Experimental College class that coming Fall. I had taken a class taught by my peers [...]
The Express!
Tweet Join the ExCollege Board! The ExCollege is beginning the search for new students to join its Board! The ExCollege Board consists of 5 Tufts faculty members as well as 5 current Tufts students. The ExCollege Board meets once a month and works toward setting policy, selecting new courses for each semester, planning campus events, [...]
The Express!
Tweet Friday, December 7: The Last Express of the Semester Be a part of the ExCollege! If you have ever wanted to command a classroom, think about joining either the Explorations or Perspectives freshmen seminar programs as a Peer Leader! Our Peer Leaders co-teach a seminar, lead their students through orientation, and act as student [...]
The Express! News & updates from the ExCollege.
Tweet Friday, November 30 Teach First Year Students! Going away this spring but want to teach a Perspectives or Explorations first year student seminar next fall? You can access the application online from anywhere! Co-teach a course to gain valuable teaching experience, engage a room of first years each week, and get credit! Check out [...]
Exploring the Explorations Program
Tweet The Explorations program, run through the ExCollege, is one of the many exciting opportunities on the Tufts campus that allows you to share your interests and contribute to the active learning initiatives that are so strongly stressed in our greater educational goals. The program brings a pair of upperclassmen together to teach a classroom [...]
First-year Seminar Leaders Boot Camp
Tweet Since last Wednesday night, the Explorations and Perspectives leaders have been in intensive training to get ready to teach their seminars for incoming first-year students. Check out some of the photos from our kick-off dinner.