JOURNEY
JOURNEY
HUMA 1301 Great Questions Seminar is only the beginning of your Great Questions Journey at Austin Community College.
“The journey doesn’t end when the semester ends, I will continue the journey because I believe it’s what will guide me in anything I do and anywhere I go.” – Great Questions Journey Student, Fall 2023
Great Questions Journey courses center around the discussion-based exploration of transformative texts, works and ideas rather than a textbook and instructor-delivered lectures and assessments that are oriented toward the reproduction of that content. Great Questions Journey classrooms help students raise and explore questions that are important to us as human beings and emphasize works within various academic disciplines that help us to become more thoughtful about those questions. All students in Great Questions Journey courses are active participants in class discussions, and help shape the nature of that discussion each day.
As each discipline, instructor and course are unique, the Great Questions Journey framework is broad, inclusive and adaptable to a variety of classrooms and curriculums. GQJ courses emphasize the interdisciplinary nature of knowledge, which includes the study of Mathematics, Natural, Social and Physical Sciences, Computer Science and other fields that are not typically understood to be aligned with the humanities. The Great Questions Journey can potentially include any academic course taught at Austin Community College.
Dedicated faculty teaching across many disciplines at ACC have been trained to lead discussion-based courses focused on transformative texts in their disciplines. All Great Questions Journey classes are taught with the same, student-centered approach and highlight exploration of great texts and exceptional works of human achievement. To learn more about the Great Questions Journey course certification process, please click here.
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Great Questions Journey at ACC in Government, Humanities, Philosophy, Communication Studies, Literary and Composition Studies (English), Mathematics, Psychology and more!
Spring 2025 Great Questions Class Schedule
Check out what past Great Questions Students had to say about participating in this experience and read the Great Questions Journey Fall 2023 Survey Report.
Fall 2023 Survey Respondents
“This class made me think. It was more than memorizing a few facts to pass a test and then immediately forgetting them.”
“I liked how it was not a multiple choice, memorization kind of class. The class is based on trying to learn how to think rather than what to think.”
“Thanks to in class discussions I was able to see topics from different perspectives and relate the readings to my daily life or current events happening today. With this class I feel like not only I learned “what happened” or “how it works” but I learned to wonder “why it works like that.”
“I also felt comfortable enough to share my own opinions which hasn’t been the case for some of my other classes.”