In 1982, at Mount Holyoke College, a group of faculty began to plan what was eventually to find its way into the course catalog as Interdepartmental 100 -- Case Studies in Quantitative Reasoning. This paper is about the QR course, given in five sections. First, I shall describe the structure of the QR course, emphasizing its mechanics and content: then I'll turn to a closer look at some of what makes the course distinctive for some of us who have taught it. I'll end with two sections on assessment and one on exportability, in the hope not only that our blueprints can help interested others avoid reinventing a wheel or two, but equally important, that our experience can also save others from reinventing some of our more spectacular flat tires.
The CAUSE Research Group is supported in part by a member initiative grant from the American Statistical Association’s Section on Statistics and Data Science Education