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Helping community college faculty focus core-curriculum courses on the discussion-based study of transformative texts.
Providing training and mentorship for faculty from all disciplines in their continued exploration of texts that investigate persistent human questions and the discussion-based approach to teaching them.
Organizing and supporting convenings, reading groups, speaker series and mentoring relationships directed to the improvement of discussion-based teaching and learning.
Help us make general education, liberal education at US Community Colleges!
The application deadline is September 29
In Fall 2023 we will be reading The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Showcasing community college faculty who have developed effective ways of teaching discussion based classes focused on transformative texts.
The Great Questions Foundation organizes course redesign workshops each summer, which are geared toward helping faculty members incorporate the discussion-based study of texts from our list in general education courses at community colleges where they teach. Expect great discussion with community college faculty colleagues from all over the US.
What are the texts that faculty might explore with students in a discussion-based classroom that address these great questions most productively, which could be easily integrated into general education courses already present in most community college course catalogues? This is a list of 100 transformative texts that faculty representing 12 different institutions have identified as important in this regard.
It’s time to support the humanities there.
College is a unique time in your life to discover just how much your mind can do.
Colleges need more programs where students of different backgrounds can wrestle together with the big questions posed by the humanities.
In an innovative seminar at Austin Community College, students tackle the big questions
"Confronting these questions is not a luxury; it’s a necessity."
How one community college system discarded a cookie-cutter approach to education.
At Austin Community College (ACC), Ted Hadzi-Antich Jr. leads students in a course called Great Questions. It’s a humanities-based, student-centered discussion class, where classic texts are connected with the students' modern lives.
The Great Questions Foundation seeks to promote liberal education and core-text and discussion-based learning at the community college through supporting faculty development and course redesign and helping to establish and support core-text programs and courses.
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