TEACHING METHODS

   Lecture/discussion, presentations, guest speakers.

   The course is conducted as a seminar, a Socratic teaching/learning
   strategy in which students analyze a topic through group discussion.
   Students take the major intellectual initiative during seminars.
   The instructor facilitates the seminar using discussion group leadership
   techniques, which include but are not limited to offering and adding
   information, clarification or terminology, and focusing the discussion.
   Thus, the seminar is a guided discussion based on the principle that
   desirable learning outcomes occur when students have opportunities to
   argue and debate, compare and contrast, judge and conclude.

   References are provided to students on topics to be discussed.  Students
   are expected to participate fully in seminar discussions and use the 
   readings as one basis for their participation.



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