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- From: chavey@jalapeno.cs.wisc.edu (Darrah Chavey)
- Subject: Independent study courses on learning a language.
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.063059.9472@cs.wisc.edu>
- Sender: news@cs.wisc.edu (The News)
- Organization: Beloit College, Beloit, Wisc.
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 06:30:59 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul21.152916.26988@hellgate.utah.edu>
- zachary%denali.utah.edu@cs
- .utah.edu (Joe Zachary) writes:
- >
- >I am working toward replacing our traditional lecture-based classes in
- >Fortran and C with classes in which students will read textbooks, use
- >interactive tutorials, do substantial hands-on work, and ask questions
- >of lab assistants. I'd appreciate hearing from any of you that are
- >doing or contemplating similar things.
- >
- > - Joe Zachary
-
- I responded with the following (repeated in entirety because this was
- a few weeks ago):
-
- I am also considering doing this, and would like to hear how your
- approach goes. For many years, Queens College of CUNY has done this.
- Their approach in teaching languages (after the first one) is that students
- take a 1 credit course as an independent project, working off of a tutorial
- manual, with programming expected of them. The students must also pass a
- final exam. For more details on their experiences, you might wish to write
- to Dr. Seymour Goodman at Queens (Flushing, NY 11367)
- email: sagqc@cunyvm.cuny.edu.
-
- Actually, what I posted then had an incorrect email address for Prof.
- Goodman. The posting above has the error corrected.
-
- --Darrah Chavey
- Beloit College
-