Course Outline

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While the course will focus mainly on health and disease, the inquiry-based, "dive-right-in" approach can be incorporated into study in  other disciplines as well as into the way in which students approach their daily lives. Although there is a small amount of lecture and presentation of the material, the main focus of this curriculum is to put students right in the middle of the topics and allow them to explore the subject without a rigid tour guide.

Students work together on most of the tasks, drawing on one another's ideas and broadening not only the way they think, but how they communicate with their peers and express their ideas in both written and oral forms.

Students are assessed on their participation in daily discussions, their expression of ideas in a journal or notebook, and their completion of various group and individual projects. There are no traditional tests given in the course of the semester. The goal is not memorization, but true learning and the application of that learning. This course challenges students to think, to apply their ideas to solve problems, and to explore their own attitudes and values.