01/21 - Time: 8:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

University Forum XLIV: "Critical Thinking Across the Curriculum"

The Forum will feature keynote speaker Dr. Calvin B. Peters, professor of sociology at the University of Rhode Island.  Dr. Peter's interactive presentation will enhance participants' understanding of what critical thinking is and how it can be supported across all disciplines.  Specific suggestions for teaching approaches and curriculum designs that foster critical thinking will be provided.

Dr. Peters is a graduate of Westmont College and received his MA and Ph.D. from the University of Kentucky.  His scholarly expertise is in cultural sociology and the sociology of knowledge.  In addition to his scholarly work in sociology, Dr. Peters has also published papers and presented numerous workshops on teaching and instructional design.  For the past 30 years he has been heavily involved in instructing and advising first-year students, regularly teaching introductory sociology to enrollments of more than 500.  Dr. Peters is co-author, along with Bette LaSere Erickson and Diane Weltner Strommer, of Teaching College Freshmen (1991) and its extensive revision, Teaching First-Year College Students (2006).  Dr. Peters last visited Southern in January 2007 as our Forum speaker on "Teaching and Reaching First-Year Students." 

Breakfast refreshments will be provided.  Following the keynote address, a buffet luncheon will be served (12:00 - 1:00 p.m.) in the Engleman Hall Seminar Center, EN B-121.  To support our evolving Liberal Education Program, Dr. Peters will lead an afternoon session (1:00 - 4:00 p.m.) for faculty interested in developing courses geared to Tier I competencies in critical thinking.

To register for Forum XLIV or the afternoon session, e-mail Ms. Michele Salamone at salamonem1@southernct.edu, or call the Office of Faculty Development at (203) 392-5358.  RSVP by either method no later than Friday, January 15, 2010.

 

Location: Garner Recital Hall, Engleman C-112

Contact Information: Michele Salamone, (203) 392-5358 , salamonem1@southernct.edu