The ExCollege provides teaching opportunities for Boston-area professionals and graduate students who have expertise in their field and a passion for teaching. Applications for the Spring 2020 semester are due August 9, 2019.
At the ExCollege, students can design and teach courses, serve on our governing board, evaluate course proposals, interview prospective visiting lecturers, select courses to be offered, and more. Learn how to get involved!
Always Ahead of Its Time. For more than half a century now, the ExCollege has been challenging convention, setting trends, and preparing students for the world of tomorrow.
Spotlight
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The ExCollege is a department at Tufts University that offers innovative undergraduate elective courses. We hire Visiting Lecturers with a range of perspectives and professional experience to teach interdisciplinary and interactive courses. -
Five Tufts graduate students designed their own courses on topics ranging from Sex & Consent to Space Exploration. Applications for 2020 Fellows will be due in January. -
ExCollege Cannabis experts debate the new reality
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We believe in heroes, and we have the potential to learn from them. First-year students at Tufts are leaping into action in this ExCollege course taught by two seniors!
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In her Fall 2019 ExCollege course, immigration attorney Maggie Morgan explores why there’s a sudden increase in asylum seekers and why asylum status can be so difficult to obtain in the United States.
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Owen Finnegan, a senior majoring in English with a minor in Education, explores Boston’s fraught history of censorship and enforced morality with the first-year students in his Explorations seminar, Banned in Boston: Forbidden Books in the Cradle of Liberty.
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We dream of commercialized space travel and the colonization of Mars, but we rarely stop to consider the technology required to achieve such goals. Margaret Stevens, a Robyn Gittleman Teaching Fellow, highlights the relevance of such technology in her Fall 2019 ExCollege course.
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How can we blend two radically different fields to communicate complex ideas? Michael Fath, a Tufts Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Biology and a Robyn Gittleman Teaching Fellow, teaches the connection between STEM and visual arts in his Fall 2019 ExCollege course.
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Everyone does it – absentmindedly running your fingers over the rack of clothes from whatever store you’re walking through. But for every t-shirt you touch, do you ever consider the footprint it left behind or the labor that went into creating it?
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With "Good As Hell" by Lizzo playing in the prelude before class, Women in Global Politics seems to have their fair share of fun conversations and activities – ranging from viewings of SNL skits to a political fashion show.
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Tufts Engineering alum Melissa Johannes (E’00) is making the principles and mechanics of intellectual property concrete, relevant, and exciting in her Fall 2019 ExCollege course. Already, students have identified needs on campus and brainstormed solutions to make them a reality. Learn all about this fun, hands-on approach to IP!
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Have you ever thought about teaching your own course? Do you want to have a positive impact on the experience of first-year students? Upper-level undergraduates can teach a class at Tufts!
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Who ever said cartoons couldn’t be educational? In the first-year Explorations seminar, Bending the Norm: Sociopolitical Commentary in The Legend of Korra, seniors Melinda Rossi and Will Hodge delve into questions of power and identity.
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Never say that Tufts instructors don’t get down. On a Monday evening in one of the Jackson dance studios, Taylor Travassos-Lomba is spinning on his head in front of his students with frightening speed.
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It’s workshop night at the Comics and Graphic Novels class, and getting and giving critiques is the name of the game.
This course returns in Summer Session II.
