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And: Team-Taught Courses Amplify Learning for Students and Professors
Team-taught courses bring together Mac experts across disciplines to explore the terrain—and sometimes, the tensions—of complex topics.
Features and Articles
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Game for Anything
Annie VanderMeer '03 unpacks a career in creating video games.
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Learning Across the Aisle
The new Congress to Campus program is part of the college’s focus on helping students learn how to engage across difference.
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The Art of Not Making Plans
Emel Sherzad ’89, co-owner of the recently closed Khyber Pass Café, relishes his improvised life.
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Lecture Notes: Happiness in the Nineteenth Century
Professor Juliette Rogers of French and Francophone studies created a course about French nineteenth-century thinkers, writers, and artists and their pursuit of happiness.
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YouTuber Carter Stacy ’24 is “Interesting”
The junior's YouTube channel "That Is Interesting" has over 155,000 subscribers and counting.
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Hip Hip Hooray for Mac Athletics
Read more about recent wins from Macalester athletic teams.
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Shelf Conscious: Arthur Mitchell
Ever wonder about all those books lining professors' office? We're with you.
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Work Wisdom: Carson Chen ’15
The senior data scientist at LinkedIn shares lessons he's learned on his career journey.
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Mad Science with Caroline Duncombe ’18
Duncombe's improv show invites Seattle-area scientists to present their work, which improvisers then create a set about the research.