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What Do College Students Have To Learn From The Amish?, Caroline Brock
What Do College Students Have To Learn From The Amish?, Caroline Brock
Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies
This paper presents the results of a survey of college courses taught on the Amish. It is based on a series of interviews with instructors at other institutions of higher learning whose courses focus on the Amish, an examination of their syllabi, and analysis of student writing from the course I teach at the University of Missouri-Columbia. The survey was designed to ascertain the goals of professors who teach a class about the Amish and how they best achieve their course objectives. Secondly, the survey explored what attracts college students to a course about the Amish, and what prior knowledge, …