April 16, 2004

Team Teaching, Team Learning

By BRIAN M. DENNIS, CARL S. SMITH, and JONATHAN A. SMITH

Since the summer of 2002, we have been engaged in an experiment in cross-disciplinary teaching that began with a series of questions. Could fields as apparently different as urban history and computer science -- with such inherently dissimilar conceptions of research, sources, and information itself -- be team-taught to students in both fields, in one undergraduate course? What could the instructors and the students accomplish together that they could not do separately? What could

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