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.
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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.
Instructor Spotlight: Jessica Sutton
Tufts Alumna brings legal expertise to study of Mass Incarcerations.
Instructor Spotlight: Jon Jon Moore
Tufts Alum Jon Jon Moore returns to teach "Race, Politics, and the Paranormal Imagination."
ExCollege Throwback
Tufts Now recently looked back at this 1972 ExCollege cooking class for men designed to promote women’s lib.
Application to teach in Fall 2022 are now available and due January 10, 2022
The ExCollege provides teaching opportunities for Boston-area professionals and graduate students who have expertise in their field and a passion for teaching.
The Psychology of Dogs: Explorations Course Seeks to Understand Man’s Best Friend
Eager to get to the bottom of this relationship, juniors Parker Killenberg and Jordan Sclar have created an Explorations course, Man’s Best Friend: The Psychology of Dogs for first-year students this Fall.