GPFF-507 : Understanding and Implementing Scholarly Activities

This course focuses on helping students identify ways to integrate research, creative and scholarly activities into the different disciplines as an approach to engage motivated students. It explores best practices for cultivating and supporting a research-focused curriculum, involving inquiry based learning and hands-on learning to improve students' ability to problem-solve, work in multi-disciplinary teams, expose them to ethics in research and information literacy, and provide practical opportunities to apply written and oral communication skills and discipline specific techniques and competencies.