Assessment of learning
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The course I teach is a workshop course, part of
the Coordinated Science Program (CSP). One of
our purposes is to help students integrate what
they are learning amongst their courses in the
program. Last year we had a global citizenship and
sustainability theme, but even when we don't have
that theme, we do things like debates on science-
based issues that almost invariably have a political,
economic or ethical element. The CSP students are
all first year science students. They take the same
lecture and lab courses and the same final exams
as other science students. The CSP Workshop is the
one extra course that they take with us. Our
number one purpose in the CSP Workshop—
though it isn't precisely what we put in writing—is
that students will learn to work with each other; in
addition to studying for their other courses, what
they do together is the activities in the workshop.
Most of the students who completed CSP over the
past twelve years said that they really loved it; in
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