What's so funny? Moving students toward complex thinking in a course on comedy and laughter

Arts and Humanities in Higher Education

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 308-322

  Ciccone, Anthony A ^a,c   Meyers, Renee A ^b   Waldmann, Stephanie ^b  

^a Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^c GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Comedy; Freshman seminar; Reflection; Scholarship of teaching and learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 61049334562     PISSN: 14740222     EISSN: 1741265X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1474022208094414     Document Type: Article

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