Wednesday, January 28, 1998
The University Daily Kansan
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Students modify cross-listed class
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Graduates and undergraduates revise syllabus
By Julie Eberle
When Johanna Harrow,
Lawrence senior, showed up for
her first day of Anthropology 400,
she was in for a shock.
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What Harrow thought was a mistake in the Spring 1998 timetable turned out to be a cross-listing of Anthropology 400 and Anthropology 785.
"When I walked into the classroom, I saw some graduate students that I knew, and then Professor Janzen said the course layout was going to be difficult because he had to appeal to the grad students, as well as to the undergrads," Harrow said. "I figured that there was a mistake in the timetable because it was a 700-level seminar."
Harrow said the class was labeled in the timetable as Current Issues, a 400-level class which dealt with medical anthropology. It was also Anthropology 785, Advanced Medical Anthropology Seminar.
John M. Janzen, professor of anthropology, said he purposefully had opened the course to graduates and undergraduates to attract a variety of students.
"When you cross-list a class, upper level and lower level, you have to work it so all can understand the material. If you steer right down the middle, you leave some people out," Janzen said.
Harrow said Janzen had planned on assigning the graduate students papers, which they would research and explain to the class in individual presentations. After each presentation, the class would form two groups. One group would consist of students who did not fully understand the material in the presentation, so Janzen could fill in background information. In the other group, students would continue to discuss the material further.
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"The more he talked about the diversity in students, the more I started to feel like I was intruding on the grad students and impairing their learning because of my lack of knowledge." Harrow said.
"When you cross-list a class, upper level and lower level, you have to work it so all can understand the material. If you steer right down the middle, you leave some people out."
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Janzen said the students suggested a different proposal."They didn't want to separate into two different interest groups. They wanted to stay together as one group," he said.
"It was nice to know that people wouldn't just give up. We worked together to find an answer. I
A graduate student suggested out-of-class study sessions, and an undergraduate asked if Janzen could guide them with readings that explained the basics of medical anthropology. These were solutions that would help undergraduates keep up with the material, while preventing the graduate students from slowing down. Harrow said.
The solution seemed satisfactory for the students in the class, Harrow said.
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think Professor Janzen was excited about it too." Harrow said.
"We were trying to get the best of both worlds for everyone. By coming together, staying and learning together, even outside of class, we could get the most out of Janzen's attention and expertise." Shaw said.
Jennifer Shaw, Lawrence graduate student, said the change in the class structure would benefit graduate students as well.
Janzen said he was going to rewrite the syllabus, taking into consideration the different levels in the class. The undergraduates will write short papers and have study sessions with the graduate students. The undergraduates also will have an opportunity to give presentations.
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Dividing lines between courses erased
Cross-listing classes gives students credit outside their majors
By Emily C. Forsyth Kansan staff writer
to offer a course.
Students enrolled in "Ecological Consequences of the City" can receive credit in history, biology, environmental studies or geology because the course is cross-listed under each of those departments.
Brenda Selman, associate registrar, said that the option of cross-listing is considered by each academic department when deciding
"As long as the course has gone through the appropriate steps for approval to be offered — and through that process, cross-listing is usually discussed — then we list it as cross-listed," Selman said.
For example, Houston said that
Cross-listing allows students to count courses toward their major that otherwise would not qualify, said Pam Houston, director of undergraduate services for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
"I think it helps students to realize that the lines between departments are not rigid lines," she said.
a West African history course could be taken for credit in either history or African studies. This class also could fulfill the requirement for a non-western culture course.
"I certainly see several advantages to cross-listing," Houston said. "If a student is looking under history, they may see that African studies class they would not normally see."
Houston said that cross-listed courses also bridged gaps between different departments in the college. Sometimes a two instructors take turns teaching the course or co-teach the class with one instructor from each department.
"Cross-listings get faculty from different departments working together, and so that brings a richer curriculum to the students." Houston said.
Chester Sullivan, associate chairman of the English department, agreed that cross-listing courses was advantageous to students.
"Cross-listing occurs if a course has an obvious appeal to the clientele of two different departments." Sullivan said. "For instance, a course offered by the English department with the word 'women' in the title would be an obvious candidate to be cross-listed in the women's studies program."
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