Nursing student Jeff Schneider, a junior, sees both strengths and weaknesses in team-teaching. But each teacher has a different style and approach. They all have different expectations of you. You get more than one perspective and it gives you variety. It breaks up the monotony.
Students benefit from the combining of professors' varying areas of expertise in a single course.
Faculty members sharing courses are also exposed to differing views. Several courses are being taught with this interdisciplinary approach, many of them Honors courses. English professor Dr. James Grove and Jay Shuldiner, associate professor of history, have team-taught six courses on World Wars I and II, and an Honors course on the Holocaust. They use film, literature and history texts to incorporate both English and history. I have taught about wars and history in my literature classes.