Courses that use Theory Practice Learning to take traditional classroom-based education out into the world are marked with the TPL symbol in the course atlas. A Theory Practice Learning course could involve any of the following:

• internships
• community service
  
• field trips and site visits
  
• action research
  
• laboratory work
  
• conflict resolution through the arts
  
• tutoring
  
• and more!

To learn more about Theory Practice Learning at Emory, visit our home, or pick up a ÒClassrooms to CommunitiesÓ brochure in the Emory College Center for Teaching and Curriculum in the Arlyn Worth Building.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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"The things we are reading in the books are not adequate to describe the reality. For example, just yesterday in the course on "Blacks and Jews" we have a whole chapter in the book called "Black Zion," on a particular group of black Jews in Atlanta. But when the students actually went to that community, they came back saying, that chapter did not prepare me for what I experienced...what I experienced was so much more complex. That is the exhilaration- people really are actively learning and not just digesting something cognitively, intellectually. They are experiencing the way real people act and they will remember that."

- Theophus (Thee) Smith - Associate Professor of Religion
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