{"id":2815,"date":"2010-04-27T12:14:24","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T17:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=2815"},"modified":"2010-04-27T12:22:09","modified_gmt":"2010-04-27T17:22:09","slug":"its-a-bird-its-a-plane-itssupercourse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2010\/04\/its-a-bird-its-a-plane-itssupercourse\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s…Supercourse"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Madelyn Law, left, and Brent Faught are teaching Brock's first Supercourse.<\/p><\/div>\n

Thanks to innovative programming at Brock, students can now finish a full-year eight-month course in two weeks, saving them and the University precious time and money.<\/p>\n

The Faculty of Applied Health Sciences has launched the two-week \u201cSupercourse,\u201d a new concept that allows students to receive two semester course credits in a fraction of the time.<\/p>\n

The Social Sciences context credit, \u201cIntroduction to Community Health Sciences,\u201d covers a wide variety of health topics including cancer, heart disease, aging, healthy environment and psychological health.<\/p>\n

It is an intensive study schedule, with two weeks of daily lectures and seminars from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., followed by Saturday exams each week. An informal third week will be provided to allow students to rewrite two of their daily tests if they choose.<\/p>\n

The dedicated format may actually help students retain the information, said Brent Faught, associate professor of Epidemiology, who teaches the course with lecturer Madelyn Law. It also allows for eight more hours of contact time with the professor compared to the traditional delivery of this course.<\/p>\n

The timing of the first course, which begins May 3, also frees students to pursue summer jobs, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe designed it to fit the schedules and needs of students,\u201d Faught said. \u201cThere are a lot of economic benefits to it as well as actual learning.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Supercourse falls into Brock\u2019s mandate of finding new and innovative ways to educate, and it represents a bit of revolutionary thinking for the University, said Murray Knuttila, Provost and Vice-President, Academic.<\/p>\n

\u201cInnovative teaching initiatives like this are partly driven by the financial realities facing universities these days,\u201d Knuttila said. \u201cSchools have to start thinking in different ways about teaching and learning. This is a bold example from Applied Health Sciences of that philosophy in action here at Brock and we are working to copy or adapt this model in other areas at the University.\u201d<\/p>\n

Universities must remain current and attuned to new ways of teaching and engaging students, said Anna Lathrop, Associate Dean of Applied Health Sciences.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe must be relevant in their lives,\u201d she said, \u201cand allow students to take more responsibility for learning, and also be sensitive to the real world that requires them to pursue their degree within a context of life and work.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Two professors plus two weeks equals two credits for students learning about community health sciences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,1],"tags":[27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2815"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2815"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2818,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2815\/revisions\/2818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}