National Collegiate Honors Council
National Collegiate Honors Council Monographs
Date of this Version
2008
Document Type
Book
Abstract
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Foreword by Bernice Braid
Semesters Institute Facilitators
2007–2008 Honors Semester Committee Members
Introduction
Introduction to City as Text™ and Overview of Contents
Joy Ochs, You’re not Typical Professors, Are You?
CHAPTER 1: CAMPUS AS TEXT
Anita R. Guynn, Place as Text: Town and Gown
Mary Lou Pfeiffer, From Cigarette Butts to the “Stacks” and Beyond
Joy Ochs, Campus as Text: a Faculty Workshop
CHAPTER 2: LOCAL NEIGHBORHOODS
Janice Allen, The Lower Ninth Ward: First Impressions, Final Realizations, Future Plans
Peter A. Machonis, Little Haiti as Text
CHAPTER 3: TRAVEL COURSES
Joy Ochs, Adapting an Honors Pedagogy to a General Studies Travel Course .
Rick Ostrander, The Adopt-a-Village Project
CHAPTER 4: SCIENCE-RELATED APPLICATIONS
Devon L. Graham, Turning Over a New Leaf
Kevin E. Bonine, Gourmet to Galapagos: Experiential Learning in the Sciences
CHAPTER 5: MYTHOS, LOGOS, ETHOS WRITING EXERCISE
Kathy A. Lyon, Crete Faculty Institute: A Change in Pedagogical Style
John Kandl, Crossroads and Beyond
Stephen J. Nichols, Do You Get the Blues?
CHAPTER 6: PHILOSOPHICAL AND PRACTICAL CONSIDERATIONS
Alan W. Grose, Platonic Thoughts on the Frustrations of Experiential Learning and Teaching: Reflections after the New Orleans Discovery and Recovery Institute
Robert Strikwerda, Experiential Learning and City as Text™: Reflections on Kolb and Kolb
Appendix A: NCHC Faculty Institutes from 1998 to 2007
Appendix B: Template for Institute Design
Appendix C: How to Organize City as Text™
Appendix D: City as Text™ Strategies: Mapping, Observing, Listening, Reflecting
Appendix E: Written Assignments
About the Authors
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