Topics Course: XXXX

Catalog description

Topics courses are inquiry-based investigations of a subject matter that involve dialogical interactions between a faculty member and several students who jointly explore the same subject matter from different perspectives as part of a learning community. Each student chooses their own direction of inquiry about the topic and then shares and reflects with the community weekly while pursuing their self-defined area of intellectual pursuit. Through interactive weekly dialogues, students can enrich their own investigations while making connections, revealing similar patterns, and differentiating between their specific lines of investigation and those pursued by others in the course. Faculty members work to create a common ground, providing a more robust learning experience that deepens a singular form of self-defined inquiry through a community.