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Let's talk dirt: The trials and tribulations of a fully integrated learning community

11-11:50 a.m.

Location: Pollock A

Type: Informative/panel Interactive

Audience: Linked Courses

Presenters: Christine Grela and Tim Seitz, McHenry County College

Talking Dirty is a co-taught, fully integrated learning community that combines PSY 175: Human Sexuality and PHI 161: Introduction to Ethics. This course was one of the founding learning community courses of the McHenry County College Learning Communities Program. It used to fill as soon as registration opened, but this is no longer the case. This session will focus on the challenges that any learning community course can face: enrollment, promotion, and student (dis)engagement, as well as challenges unique to a course focused on controversial issues in an increasingly polarized society.