During Year Two, in spite of some significant changes and obstacles at Arizona International College, substantial progress was made on the project. The five workshops were informative and contributed directly to our development and implementation of a System for Faculty Evaluation, and summaries of these workshops are available in that section of the website. Outcomes Learning Communities AIC has opted for the use of learning communities as the primary method of delivering an interdisciplinary education. The content of the course is integrated. Teachers share teaching responsibilities.
Teachers collaborate on testing and evaluating the students.
During Davis's workshop, AIC faculty opted to experiment during the 1997-98 academic year with learning communities as the most efficient and effective mode of interdisciplinary teaching available to us at the time. We spent the summer of 1997 developing the learning communities for the core curriculum, focusing especially on the first-year courses. This configuration resulted in two learning communities each semester. Each community was comprised of courses that related to the theme of the first academic house, Civic Responsibility. One learning community focused on the topic of Housing and Poverty and included courses in social sciences, humanities, natural sciences and mathematics, and writing.