Teaching Nonmajors: Advise for Liberal Arts Professors

Product Description
Delivers uncomplicated and useful techniques for better teaching to nonmajors in liberal arts courses.


Review
“…a versatile tool for professors at a liberal arts college … This text provides solid guidelines to equip a professor for a successful and less stressful academic year.” ― Teaching History

“…concise, organized for ease of use, and makes a smart pocket reference guide … In short, it is terribly valuable, especially for those who wish to better their craft of being a liberal arts professor.” ― Teaching Sociology

“This book deals thoughtfully, unhysterically, and nonpolemically with a subject that most professors would rather avoid but that we should be more concerned about: classroom teaching. The author’s advice is sound and thorough. Professors at every level can benefit from his ideas. I may steal a few myself.” ― Norman Weiner, State University of New York at Oswego
From the Back Cover
Teaching Nonmajors focuses on what dedicated teachers want to know--how can I teach better in the classroom? Unlike most books on teaching, this book delivers uncomplicated and immediately useful techniques and strategies for teaching required courses to nonmajors. Providing practical examples and brief anecdotes drawn from a variety of disciplines in the liberal arts and sciences, the author describes simple ways to break up lectures, how to stimulate the best discussions, the art of assignments, how to improve student ratings, and successful strategies for engaging nonmajors and for handling problem students.
Teaching Nonmajors is written especially for liberal arts college and university professors at all career stages--from adjuncts and new professors, to seasoned professors looking for a fresh approach heading into a new term.


"This book deals thoughtfully, unhysterically, and nonpolemically with a subject that most professors would rather avoid but that we should be more concerned about: classroom teaching. The author's advice is sound and thorough. Professors at every level can benefit from his ideas. I may steal a few myself." -- Norman Weiner, State University of New York at Oswego
About the Author
P. Sven Arvidson is Visiting Associate Professor of Philosophy and Senior Faculty Fellow in the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at Seattle University. He is the author of The Sphere of Attention: Context and Margin and the coeditor (with Robbie Davis-Floyd) of Intuition: The Inside Story: Interdisciplinary Perspectives.