In this collection of short reports — the first such collection to be published in the South African Journal of Psychology — we introduce a range of innovations in the teaching of undergraduate psychology at the University of the Witwatersrand. Following as it does on the recent Teaching of Psychology in South Africa conference, we hope that this collection will help to maintain the renewed interest in and enthusiasm for undergraduate teaching in psychology, and lead to many similar efforts in future.
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