Curriculum by Design

Mary Thomas Crane

Description

This book tells the story of how a team of colleagues at Boston College took an unusual approach (working with a design consultancy) to renewing their core and in the process energized administrators, faculty, and students to view liberal arts education as an ongoing process of innovation. It aims to provide insight into what they did and why they did it and to provide a candid account of what has worked and what has not worked. Although all institutions are different, they believe their experiences can provide guidance to others who want to change their general education curriculum or who are being asked to teach core or general education courses in new ways.The book also includes short essays by a number of faculty colleagues who have been teaching in BC's new innovative core courses, providing practical advice about the challenges of trying interdisciplinary teaching, team teaching, project-or problem-based learning, intentional reflection, and other new structures and pedagogies for the first time. It will also address some of the nuts and bolts issues they have encountered when trying to create structures to make curriculum change sustainable over time and to foster ongoing innovation.

Sujets

• Philosophie et théologie
• Catholic Church

Informations

• Publié par: Fordham University Press
• Date de parution: 16 mai 2023
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781531501358
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 4 Mo

Extrait

CU RRI CU LU M BY D E S I G N

Curriculum by Design

ï N N OVATï O N A N D TH E Lï B E R A L A RTS CO RE

Mary Thomas Crane Davîd Quîgey Andy Boynton Editors

Fordham University Press New York 2023

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Contents

Preface: Curriculum Revision and the Foundations of American HïGHER Education Davîd Quîgey xi

PART ï: ïNNOVATïON AND THE LïBERAL ARTS CORE 1

Çôéôà é Çôéŝàô: ô Déŝéŝ éé Çéà à Āçàéç ôà Wîîam Boe 3

Wà Dô Wé Kô? O, é éŝ ô Ééŝé Toby Bottorf 13

îôàô Andy Boynton 21

Āôûŝ àŝ Méé éà: ô Wé Màé é ééé Çôé Wô Mary Thomas Crane 31

Sô Dô à Oé Û: éà àçû ô Çô-éŝ à ééà Éûçàô Çôûŝé Stacy Grooters 41

Çôé ééà àŝ Çéàé é Gregory Kascheur, S.J. 50

 ééçô à Çôé ééà Jack Buter, S.J. 62

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Sûŝé  Çôéŝàô: Ā ééçô ô Çôé ééà à ôŝô Çôéé Brîan D. Robînette 69

PART ïï: TEACHïNG THE RENEWED CORE 73

Compex Probem Courses 75

éàç àôû à àé  é Prasannan Parthasarathî and Juîet B. Schor 77

Contents

Ééé  Sçéçé à éçôô  Āéçà Sôçé Jenna Tonn 82

ôà îçàôŝ ô Çàé Çàé: îôàçé ô Méôŝ  à Çôé Éûçàô Tara Pîsanî Gareau and Brîan J. Gareau 104

Endurîng Questîon Courses: Brîngîng Together Dîvergent Dîscîpînes 115

ô ô é  é Màéà Wô: ô éŝéçéŝ Eîzabeth Kowaeskî Waace and Dunweî Wang 117

Āéŝéç à Sûà Ééçŝéŝ,  à éô é Çàŝŝôô Danîe Caahan and Brîan D. Robînette 123

Endurîng Questîon Courses: Dîfferentîatîng Sîmîar Dîscîpînes 133

Déà  Āçé ééçé à Môé ûŝŝà: ééç ô Oû ééçô Séŝŝôŝ Hanne Eîsenfed and Thomas Epsteîn 135

Sé à Sééŝé  “Ā ôŝŝéŝŝô ô Ā é”: jûŝçé à Wà  ûçéŝ Robert C. Bartett 144

îû àôû ûàŝ à àûé: Çéà, à, à Séé Hoy VandeWa and Mîn Hyoung Song 150

The Lîbera Arts Core: Engagîng wîth Current Events, 2016–2020

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Çôŝŝŝ: éàç “ôôŝ à ôûéŝ: éà/W îé, Màô, à Çûûé” Lynne Anderson and Eîzabeth Graver 159

Contents

 é Āçéçûé ô à àç éŝ Çàŝŝôô: éàôçà àŝ  “Wéé #àçéŝMàé Mééŝ #Méôô” RÈgîne Mîchee Jean-Chares 167

û-é  ŝô à éàûé: Çôŝûçé Ûçéà Aîson Adaîr and Syvîa Seers-García 178

Çô Çôé éŝŝôŝ Eîzabeth H. Shaa 190

Acknowledgments 199

Appendix A: The Vision Animating the Boston College Core Curriculum 203

Appendix B: Boston College Core Curriculum Required Courses 209

Appendix C: Complex Problem and Enduring Question Courses, 2015–2021 211

List of Contributors 235

ïndex 243

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