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Each college has its own mission and philosophy of education. At the College of General Studies, we offer students a two-year, team-taught, interdisciplinary core curriculum. We believe that an educated person must have a firm grounding in the liberal arts: the natural sciences, social sciences, humanities, and rhetoric. We know that our students receive the same advantages offered by the finest liberal arts colleges—small classes taught by full-time faculty with PhDs in their fields—while they are enrolled in one of the best research universities in the country.
In addition to the collections within this OpenBU community, we invite you to take a look at the Sabermetrics MOOC created and run by CGS professor Andy Andres. (N.B.: access to the MOOC materials is temporarily restricted to BU faculty and staff; we hope to open it up soon.)
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IMPACT: The Journal of the Center for Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning. Volume 12, Issue 1, Summer 2023
(Boston University College of General Studies, 2023)The essays in this issue explore how to enhance teaching and student learning in the classroom. Our first contributor argues that providing students the opportunity to write questions about course material is a fruitful ... -
The last Brahmin: Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. and the making of the Cold war
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Preserving the positive student outcomes of CUREs through disruption: implications for remote learning
(Elon University, 2022-01-07)We evaluated how faculty adapted course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs) to remote instruction and compared student outcomes with CUREs offered in-person in prior semesters. Our findings suggest that partially ... -
IMPACT: The Journal of the Center for Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning. Volume 11, Issue 2, Summer 2022
(Boston University College of General Studies, 2022)The essays in this issue explore interdisciplinarity in the classroom and/or education. Our first contributor argues that making the economics curriculum more interdisciplinary corrects some common American misconceptions ... -
Cosmic visions: bridging science and art
(Boston Univeristy, 2021-07-12)Since the dawn of recorded history, stargazing has shaped—and been shaped by—our understanding of the universe and the place of humans within it. Though we tend to conceptualize art and science as separate spheres, the ... -
A concise review of lobster utilization by worldwide human populations from prehistory to the modern era
(OXFORD UNIV PRESS, 2015-07-01)Lobsters are important resources throughout the world's oceans, providing food security, employment, and a trading commodity. Whereas marine biologists generally focus on modern impacts of fisheries, here we explore the ... -
The elementary particles of quantum fields
(2021-10-28)The elementary particles of relativistic quantum field theory are not simple field quanta, as has long been assumed. Rather, they supplement quantum fields, on which they depend on but to which they are not reducible, as ... -
IMPACT: The Journal of the Center for Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning. Volume 11, Issue 1, Winter 2022
(Boston University College of General Studies, 2022-02)This special issue of the journal is devoted to creating antiracist classrooms through interdisciplinary teaching, learning, curriculum, and leadership. The essays in this special issue explore a variety of issues related ... -
Gender reversals in social networks based on prevailing kinship norms in the Mosuo of China
(2021-04-09)Although cooperative social networks are considered key to human evolution, emphasis has usually been placed on the functions of men’s cooperative networks. What do women’s networks look like? Do they differ from men’s ... -
Fiction
(Oxford University Press, 2020-12-20)The most lasting Christmas fiction tends to use Christmas as a setting not as the main subject and to draw from the warmth and sensory onslaught of the holidays and on friends and families gathering, not on the specific ...
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