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Bruce Macbain asked whether Pitzer College's "all-original-source approach to the modern world history survey" does not make students "feel the lack of a reference text where they can check a fact?" Certainly, to some extent. But over the whole semester, the effect is to encourage the students to develop excellent note taking skills and to query the faculty during office hours, review sessions (or over email) when a question arises. And of course, the faculty often respond to those queries by identifying bibliographic sources, which some students do indeed go and check. So on the whole, I would say it has worked for us. Bruce Macbain also wonders whether Pitzer's approach creates "pressure on the lecturers" to be extra thorough. This is certainly true. Dan Segal dsegal@bernard.pitzer.edu
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