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Detective Fiction and Forensics in collaboration.
Abstract
This case study focuses on the link between Detective Fiction, a literature course, and Forensics, a lab science course, and how this cluster allows students to evaluate criminal investigation from two disciplinary perspectives.
Learning is not a spectator sport. It requires students' direct and active involvement and participation.
--Johnson, Johnson, and Holubec Cooperative Learning in the Classroom
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Westminster College kept the above philosophy firmly in mind when it changed its general education curriculum in the mid-1990s. Faculty and students alike felt the structural shift from individualist to ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Detective Fiction and Forensics in collaboration.