The Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Department (WGSS) is expanding its course offerings to include many more community-based learning classes.
Although service-learning classes are offered in many different areas through all of Washington University’s schools, WGSS is specifically institutionalizing community-based learning in its curriculum.

The only official pieces of information available to all students when choosing classes are a short course description that rarely changes from year to year and numerical course evaluation scores. Other information comes from unreliable sources such as friends who have taken a class (sometimes from a totally different professor) and websites like ratemyprofessor.com.

The faculty behind one of the most daunting courses at Washington University has changed the course’s layout to better help serve students. Starting in fall of the next academic year, Organic Chemistry Laboratory will be a two-semester course. “This is going to be great for the students. The primary drive behind this is discussion amongst [...]