What if you could major in the ExCollege?
Tweet I asked our student workers to imagine a world in which you could major in the ExCollege. I asked them to tell me what courses they would take this spring to fulfill the requirements for this very unique major. This is the response I received from Lynne Koester, senior, English major, and ExCollege veteran. [...]
The Proposal: A Process of Idea Babies, I Do’s and Engagement
Tweet Written by Nick Golden, Marcy Regalado, and Beky Stiles Every semester, a new list of Experimental College courses appears on our website. This magical listing jumps across disciplines and contains unique courses like “A History of Pir‘arrrgh’cy” (I’m sorry…I couldn’t resist…). Each hand-crafted class goes through an intensive series of steps (I would say [...]
The Big Day is Finally Here!
Tweet For the past two and a half months our staff here at the ExCollege has been eagerly anticipating today. Why, you might ask? Today is the deadline for visiting lecturer proposal applications! It’s the day when we get to see what exciting topics various people have come up with to teach to our Tufts [...]
An Inside Look at the Perspectives Program
Tweet For our first blog post about the Perspectives program we have a two for one special: insights from co-leaders Bill Cotter and Travis Grodkiewicz! As the deadline to apply to teach in this program quickly approaches check out their reflections on what it was like to be a part of Perspectives this year! Bill’s [...]
Our “Researcher in Chief”
Tweet Tufts President Anthony Monaco just presented the latest talk in the A Taste of Tufts series. He discussed two of his most important discoveries, the gene responsible for X-linked Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophies and a gene specifically involved in human speech and language. Though many in the crowded classroom were transported back to [...]
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 [...]
Apply to Join the ExCollege Board!
Tweet I must be losing my mind. For the second year in a row, I sought and obtained an appointment to the ExCollege Board. I mean, everyone knows that “board meetings” always become “bored meetings.” Who could possibly want to sit through more meetings than they absolutely have to? I could. In fact, I always [...]
A Taste of Neutrinos
Tweet Just got back from Hugh Gallagher’s presentation about neutrinos, and my head is spinning (or oscillating, which would be more appropriate)! Thanks, Prof. Gallagher for enlightening the group of faculty, staff, and students about “the loner of the universe” and for awakening my inner physicist!
The Best Part of the Job
Tweet Every now and then, my friends ask me what I “do” at work at the ExCollege. As usual, it’s much easier to tell a short half-truth than to explain the whole story. So, I usually say something like, “I enter course proposal information into a database.” That sounds pretty dull, but of course, that’s [...]
Conception of the Taste of Tufts Lecture Series
Tweet I was in the bookstore last fall, dodging freshman who don’t know enough to check Amazon first to see how much textbooks are elsewhere, looking for a programming book. On my way towards the engineering section, I stopped to eavesdrop on a pair of students who were talking about the books. I quickly realized [...]