Educational Media Research

Zusammenfassung

At the end of spring semester, 2010, Dominican University of California, in San Rafael, CA (Bay Area), held the first known summer institute to prepare enough faculty for teaching a newly required first-year course sequence. The sequence included a freshman survey course in Big History in the fall of 2010, followed by a choice of discipline-based Big History-themed courses. All courses needed to be developed, in a new four-semester sequence of general education, with the initial two devoted to Big History and the following two to Shaping the Future. With an expected freshman class of about 335, and a class size of 20-22, about fifteen instructors for the initial survey course would be needed. What follows is a brief description of this institute, which achieved what it hoped to, with only two minor problems. ...