During the Winter 2023, I looked back upon my experience supervising student co-op work reports for over two years. Between Spring 2019 and Fall 2021, I commented on 483 student proposals and 544 reports. Through co-op and other forms of experiential learning, economics students have a remarkable opportunity to bridge …
Since March 2020 when on-campus classes were suspended, I have adapted to teaching online – in particular, enouraging student interaction and the sharing of work in Econ 393 Market Failures; introducing the option of using R (instead of just Excel) in Econ 221 Statistics for Economists taken an anti-racism course …
The University of Waterloo’s Faculty Association is encouraging faculty and members of the university community to do the work and learn about …
Co-op education is a distinguishing component of studying at the University of Waterloo. Ideally, co-op work experience would promote student reflection on …
A remarkable start to the 2018-2019 academic year at UW with a lecture by Gareth Stedman Jones concerning Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion. Stedman Jones …
An extremely helpful week discussing how to approach teaching the history of economic thought with director Bruce Caldwell, Jason Brent and a …
UW’s Centre for Teaching Excellence organized a fantastic Ninth Annual Teaching and Learning Conference. Takeaways from Peter Felten’s keynote: Encourage students to act …
