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Challenging the First Year of College: Old Models and New Imperatives
Author(s) -
Mills Shala A.,
Mehaffy George L.
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
new directions for teaching and learning
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.192
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1536-0768
pISSN - 0271-0633
DOI - 10.1002/tl.20175
Subject(s) - multidisciplinary approach , mathematics education , focus (optics) , higher education , sociology , pedagogy , medical education , psychology , political science , medicine , social science , physics , law , optics
This chapter argues that the first year of college needs to be reconsidered. The authors offer, as an alternative, a new kind of course, one created by groups of faculty members from different campuses, multidisciplinary in focus, delivered in a blended format, focused on civic outcomes, and intended primarily for first‐year students.