As the college grows, it is attracting greater and greater numbers of international students. Most have very good spoken and written English skills, but some find that their language skills put them at a tremendous disadvantage in both engineering and Herbst courses.
Herbst has taken a small step toward addressing this problem by piloting an international version of its popular first-year seminar, HUEN 1010. All of its 10 students are non-native English speakers. The first semester of the course will be team-taught by Leland Giovannelli and Anja Lange, while subsequent semesters will be taught by one instructor and an in-class TA. The books and assignments are the same as or equivalent to those in the other 1010 seminars, but this section has even more writing and more re-writing. Students have a greater opportunity for conversation: in class, when each teacher works with a group of five, and out of class, at a required weekly conference with one of the instructors.
The pilot course has been funded by a generous grant from the (EEF). The EEF, a student-run organization in the College of Engineering and Applied Science, gives funds to 鈥渢o create an excellent and innovative environment for engineering education.鈥� Thank you, EEF!