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Off-Campus Colloquia as Immersive Study and Active Learning: Capitaf, Milton and Rose Friedman’s Home

In: Off-Campus Study, Study Abroad, and Study Away in Economics

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  • Signè Thomas

    (Trinity College)

  • Samuel R. Staley

    (Florida State University)

Abstract

In this paper, two facilitators of an off-campus colloquia series examine its effectiveness as an alternative to study-abroad programs. The paper evaluates a week-long seminar in political economy held in the Vermont mountains at Capitaf, the former summer home of Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman and his wife, Rose. The colloquium is structured to foster active learning by combining intensive reading and discussion of Friedman’s critical writings, and immerse students in the place where the economist conducted most of his writing in the late 1960s and 1970s. More than 60 undergraduate students have experienced the program. The program has had a deep, lasting impact on students, as revealed through open-end comments and responses to post-colloquium assessments.

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  • Signè Thomas & Samuel R. Staley, 2021. "Off-Campus Colloquia as Immersive Study and Active Learning: Capitaf, Milton and Rose Friedman’s Home," Contributions to Economics, in: Joshua Hall & Kim Holder (ed.), Off-Campus Study, Study Abroad, and Study Away in Economics, chapter 0, pages 33-51, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:conchp:978-3-030-73831-0_4
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-73831-0_4
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