On a Monday morning near the middle of spring term, students sit huddled facing a 15-foot, 8-screen video wall inside the Jones Media Center’s Innovation Studio. These students, part of Professor Kim Rogers's Sociology 1 course, are about to dive in to first-person video game Halo Combat Evolved to experience inequality firsthand.
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"I was delighted to read Eliza Jane Schaeffer’s article on “the essence of the professor-student dynamic.” Schaeffer is exactly right about what empowers students—and what fosters learning," writes Lisa Baldez in a recent letter to the editor.
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Telling Stories for Social Change and Telling My Story on Campus engage students in shared dialogue with communities in crisis and one another, and use performance as a platform to explore social issues. Both are examples of the kinds of experiential learning DCAL is funding now. Deadline May 10!
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The recent launch of Introduction to German Opera, a MOOC offered through DartmouthX, is a return to the global stage for Music Professor Steve Swayne and a new contribution to online Arts & Humanities offerings, of which there are relatively few.
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Professor Jibran Khokhar and his students are producing new data and evidence-based strategies to combat the regional opioid epidemic as part of a Social Impact Practicum in their psychology course, "Motiviation Drugs, and Addiction."
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