Fixing College Education: A New Curriculum for the Twenty-First Century

by Charles Muscatine

Book Overview

Since his early days at the University of California, Berkeley, when he was fired for refusing to sign a loyalty oath during the Red Scare, Charles Muscatine has been a dedicated teacher and higher education reformer. Upon his reinstatement at Berkeley, he founded "Strawberry Creek College," a six-year experiment using full professors and small classes to teach lower-division students. Drawing on this belief in undergraduate teaching, Muscatine's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081392815X
• ISBN13: 9780813928159
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher