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What is the Experimental College?

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.

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Applications to teach in Spring 2023 will be available in June

The ExCollege provides teaching opportunities for Boston-area professionals and graduate students who have expertise in their field and a passion for teaching.

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Undergraduate Students Get Involved

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!

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Experimental College Announcements

Read about our Explorations courses just for new students:
2022 Explorations courses.

Announcing a new course on the right to abortion:
Read more about the course.

Fall 2022 Courses are here:
Find the class that changes everything.

Applications to teach a Peer Taught course in spring 2023 are open now:
Learn more about the program. Applications are due September 19, 2022.

ExCollege Happenings

Instructor Spotlight: Gillian Rooney

Gillian Rooney is a senior currently teaching the class "How To Not Get Scammed."

The Vonnegut in the Classroom

How do you teach one of the most challenging authors in American literature to a group of freshmen--Kurt's grandson among them? Last fall Mark Lannigan, A23, found out.

Microbiologist Hannah Gavin speaking in Excollege Class

Phages: From Tufts Soil to DNA Sequencing, An ExCollege Research Collaboration

Microbiologist Hannah Gavin, PhD, approached the ExCollege in 2019 about offering a special two course sequence on bacteriophages (viruses that infect bacteria), and we jumped at the chance.

Instructor Spotlight: Nick Dorian

Nick Dorian (he/him) is a doctoral student and researcher in the Biology department at Tufts, and one of the Excollege's Robyn Gittleman Graduate Teaching Fellows.

Instructor Spotlight: Katherine Wang

Katherine Wang (she/her) is a senior at Tufts majoring in Biology and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.

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