The web pages into which you are about to plunge have been a part of my course since 1996. One of the primary goals of this site is to help students to learn how to learn, something called student-centered learning. Student-centered learning puts the responsibility for learning on the student. The idea is to provide a wide range of tools that students can use to discover knowledge. That approach works very well with online delivery of a course for many reasons.
Students have the flexibility to get their lectures and assignments any time of day or night.
Their ability to communicate with the instructor and other students is greatly enhanced through e-mail, subscribable mailing lists, discussion forums and web postings. What we can teach you is how to approach problems and issues, how to find information needed to solve that problem or resolve that issue and how to make some sense out of it and communicate it to someone else. That's why every class you take is relevant, whether it's in your desired field of study or not. Any occupation that you pursue in life will demand that you think outside the envelope, that you tackle unfamiliar subjects, grasp their meaning and put them into practice. Some of you might struggle at first with the heavy online emphasis of this course.