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Mark D. McColloch expects the Humanities
Common Text Project (HCTP) to motivate
students to discuss and consider subjects
outside the “bounds” of one class.
As director, McCulloch states the project
involves the selection and use of various
humanities texts (generally, novels), to be used
simultaneously in a number of different courses
at the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg.
These courses are drawn from a variety of
disciplines, including English literature,
English writing, philosophy, history, political
science, French and Spanish. While each of these classes maintains a separate character
and utilizes additional texts unique to that
class, each will feature one or more of the
common texts for that academic term.
This project also provides a means through which
the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg’s
new Humanities and Behavioral Science Academic
Villages can be integrated with the curriculum. (The “villages” house students with a common academic
interest and sponsor programming related to that
field.)
The project will be organized through
UPG’s Humanities and Behavioral Science
Academic Villages and designed to enrich the
contact and impact of participating courses. |
Mark
D. McColloch |
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HCTP will use a variety of special teaching strategies.
These include joint meetings of one or more classes,
exchanges of lectures among faculty, and special
lunchtime or evening programs, open to all the classes
in the HCTP, in which the common texts or themes are
discussed. One
of the goals of the HCTP is the creation of a large pool
of students engaged in grappling with a common set of
texts and a shared group of related intellectual,
social, political and moral problems.
McColloch has been teaching various
U.S. history courses at UPG for the past 13 years.
The project’s co-director is William Pamerleau,
Philosophy.
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