Experimental College

Teach a course of your own design to highly motivated Tufts undergrads! The ExCollege offers small, participation-based classes that are innovative and experiential. Apply to be a Visiting Lecturer in Spring 2025 – applications close on August 12th, 2024.

Access the application here: https://apply.interfolio.com/146034

The Experimental College at Tufts is excited to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Explorations, our peer teaching and advising program. Since its inception, students have designed and taught their own courses, and mentored new Jumbos through their first semester at Tufts.

View our 50th anniversary website commemorating the occasion and explore the artifacts and stories that we hope capture the heart and soul of Explorations. You’ll find photos, past course syllabi, and stories of Explorations leaders, their students, and even their kids, who went on to teach their own Explorations!

Click the link to visit the site! https://bit.ly/Explorations50th

Only one week left to apply to be a Visiting Lecturer in Spring 2024!
Visiting Lecturers bring their professional expertise to the classroom and create small, participation-based courses that span across disciplines and get students thinking in creative ways.

Teach a course of your own design to highly motivated Tufts undergrads! Apply to be a Visiting Lecturer in Spring 2024: http://apply.interfolio.com/125525

What are students saying about their ExCollege courses? Our classes offer students an opportunity to learn from professionals and step outside their comfort zone.

Want to make a difference? Interested in teaching Tufts undergraduates? Applications to teach in Spring 2024 close on August 14th, 2023.
Apply today: https://lnkd.in/etJC8TV9

Teach a course of your own design to highly motivated Tufts undergrads! Apply to be a Visiting Lecturer in Spring 2024: http://apply.interfolio.com/125525

In June of 2022, Roe v. Wade was overturned in the landmark decision Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization. What does abortion, contraceptive use, and reproductive freedom look like now? What will the future of abortion be in Massachusetts, and in the country? What can the history of these cases teach us?

At the ExCollege’s first-ever event exploring reproductive rights, hear from lawyers, healthcare providers, and educators in a panel format, and stay after to chat with organizations and advocacy groups from Tufts and the greater Boston area. Join us Thursday, March 30th from 6:00pm - 7:45pm in Tisch Library, Room 304. For more information, visit https://excollege.tufts.edu/news-events/events

Still interested in applying to be a Visiting Lecturer for Fall 2023? The application deadline has been extended to January 16th, 2023!

Teach a course of your own design to highly motivated Tufts undergrads! Apply to be a Visiting Lecturer in Fall 2023: apply.Interfolio.com/117222

Less than one month left to apply to be a Visiting Lecturer in Fall 2023! Applications due January 9th — apply today!

Teach a course of your own design to highly motivated Tufts undergrads! Apply to be a Visiting Lecturer in Fall 2023: apply.Interfolio.com/117222

Teach a course of your own design to highly motivated Tufts undergrads! Apply to be a Visiting Lecturer in Fall 2023: apply.Interfolio.com/117222

Interested in teaching a creative, out-of-the-ordinary, experimental course? Apply to be a Visiting Lecturer and lead Tufts undergraduates in a small, discussion-based, interdisciplinary course. Applications for the Spring 2023 semester are due August 15th—link in our bio!

Congrats ! Special shoutout to our Explorations leaders and peer teachers graduating today! [Cake courtesy of , Food Media instructor and Tufts alumna]

Breaking news! We’re announcing a new course, The Right to Abortion, coming this fall semester. Check SIS soon for details.

Students from instructor Hannah Gavin’s year-long course on phages presented some of their amazing research at the Tufts Undergraduate Research and Scholarship Symposium Poster Session earlier this week!

We’re so proud of Hannah and her students for their hard work and innovation throughout this past year. Read more about Hannah’s course on our website.

Looking for courses that take an interdisciplinary approaches to legal, historical, cultural, and political issues? Check out these classes and more of our fall 2022 roster. Add them to your SIS cart now!

Just because our courses are experimental doesn't mean they aren't practical! Check out these fall courses, taught by professionals and scholars, on the in-and-outs of complex fields like healthcare, journalism, and finance.

Want to learn more about what we do? Here’s just an overview of what resources the ExCollege offers. Learn more at excollege.tufts.edu!

Looking to take an ExCollege class next semester? Fill your SIS cart with some of these courses, which explore art and culture through interdisciplinary perspectives. The instructors range from practicing artists to scholars—all interested in the social aspects and power of the creative process.

Our fall 2022 courses are officially live on SIS! Here are some of our upcoming offerings which explore social phenomena and their impacts—these, like many of our classes, are taught by experienced professionals and academics who are not only here to lead students, but to learn along with them.

Make sure to add these courses and more of our fall 2022 roster to your SIS shopping cart!

Explorations Apps are due TONIGHT! If you want to teach an ExCollege course and develop your own curriculum, make sure to apply! Application link in bio.

We're excited to announce our fall 2022 lineup! Our new courses include a hands-on examination of games and gaming culture, a deep dive into s*x ed in the U.S., a look into the interplay between written text and images in art, and many more! These courses are taught by industry professionals, advanced degree candidates, active studio art practitioners, and organizers for social causes. Check them out on SIS!

Do you want to work closely with faculty to select courses for the ExCollege curriculum? Are you interested in helping bring new ideas, new teaching styles, and new courses to Tufts classrooms? Do you have an innovative idea to enrich the Tufts community? If so, the ExCollege Board is the place for you! Link in bio to apply.

- Ellie Murphy (she/her) is a senior majoring in international relations and sociology. She is currently a peer teacher leading a class titled Privilege and Power: The Ethics of Voluntourism. Her class explores the phenomenon of voluntourism, wherein people travel for the purpose of providing charity to some region but not in the capacity of a humanitarian aid worker. More specifically, voluntourism's intersection with neoliberalism, globalization, the rise of mass-media, and neocolonialism are examined and critiqued.

🌟 - Jasmine A. Ramón (she/her) is currently teaching Mixed Messages: Multiethnic and Multiracial Identity in the 21st Century U.S. Her class explores the formation of these identities, their value and impact on people's sense of community, and how they interact with the ethno-racial landscape of the U.S. Jasmine also works as the program administrator for the Tufts Latinx Center!

🗣 Come hear from past Explorations leaders about their experience teaching an Explorations course at the ExCollege! The session will be held in Barnum at noon. Hope to see you all there!

Introduction Myshko (Mih-sch-k-oh)! He joined the ExCollege after working there as a work-study student and leading an Explorations course. He puts together our weekly newsletter, provides instructor support, collaborates with the rest of the team on evaluating and hiring visiting lecturers, and tries his best to catch whatever falls through the cracks. Outside of work, Myshko likes to bike, make sound art/field recordings, and write and read about political economy, philosophy, and ecology, among others.

This week’s is Gillian Rooney💡! Gillian is a senior currently teaching the class “How To Not Get Scammed.” Her class examines the most popular scams in circulation, gives students the tools to analyze the similarities and differences between scams, and provides considerations to prevent future victimization. They focus on multi-level marketing schemes, such as LuLaRoe leggings and Amway, pyramid schemes, Ponzi schemes, and various forms of grifting and fraud. Students are encouraged to come up with their own definitions and develop their own ideas on why people continue to be victims of scams, despite public knowledge on their veritability.

Happy Valentine’s Day from the ExCollege! We love you ❤️

The ExCollege office at 95 Talbot Ave is open again! Stop by to study in our lounge, eat lunch or grab a snack from our kitchen, or to chat with our staff about ExCollege classes and programs.

We'll be open Monday through Thursday, 9 to 5!

Did you know that the ExCollege was one of the first Tufts departments to offer courses on computers👨🏽‍💻? Below are two courses from the ExCollege's early years, one on circuitry and another on computers' role in shaping the societies we live in 😯!