Curriculum by Design : Innovation and the Liberal Arts Core / ed. by Andy Boynton, David Quigley, Mary Thomas Crane.
Adair, Allison, contributor.; Anderson, Lynne, contributor.; Bartlett, Robert C., contributor.; Bartlett, Robert, contributor.; Bole, William, contributor.; Bottorf, Toby, contributor.; Boynton, Andy, contributor.; Boynton, Andy, editor.; Butler, Jack, contributor.; Butler, John, contributor.; Callahan, Daniel M., contributor.; Callahan, Daniel, contributor.; Crane, Mary Thomas, contributor.; Crane, Mary Thomas, editor.; Eisenfeld, Hanne, contributor.; Epstein, Thomas, contributor.; Gareau, Brian, contributor.; Gareau, Tara, contributor.; Graver, Elizabeth, contributor.; Grooters, Stacy, contributor.; Jean-Charles, Régine Michelle, contributor.; Kalscheur, Gregory, contributor.; Kowaleski-Wallace, Elizabeth, contributor.; Parthasarathi, Prasannan, contributor.; Quigley, David, contributor.; Quigley, David, editor.; Robinette, Brian, contributor.; Schor, Juliet, contributor.; Sellers-García, Sylvia, contributor.; Shlala, Elizabeth H., contributor.; Song, Min Hyoung, contributor.; Tonn, Jenna, contributor.; VandeWall, Holly, contributor.; Wang, Dunwei, contributor.
2023
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Title
Curriculum by Design : Innovation and the Liberal Arts Core / ed. by Andy Boynton, David Quigley, Mary Thomas Crane.
ISBN
9781531501358
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781531501358
Published
New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2023]
Copyright
©2023
Language
English
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In English.
Description
1 online resource (272 p.)
Item Number
10.1515/9781531501358 doi
Dewey Decimal Classification
378.1/990974461
Summary
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.
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Adair, Allison, contributor.
Anderson, Lynne, contributor.
Bartlett, Robert C., contributor.
Bartlett, Robert, contributor.
Bole, William, contributor.
Bottorf, Toby, contributor.
Boynton, Andy, contributor.
Boynton, Andy, editor.
Butler, Jack, contributor.
Butler, John, contributor.
Callahan, Daniel M., contributor.
Callahan, Daniel, contributor.
Crane, Mary Thomas, contributor.
Crane, Mary Thomas, editor.
Eisenfeld, Hanne, contributor.
Epstein, Thomas, contributor.
Gareau, Brian, contributor.
Gareau, Tara, contributor.
Graver, Elizabeth, contributor.
Grooters, Stacy, contributor.
Jean-Charles, Régine Michelle, contributor.
Kalscheur, Gregory, contributor.
Kowaleski-Wallace, Elizabeth, contributor.
Parthasarathi, Prasannan, contributor.
Quigley, David, contributor.
Quigley, David, editor.
Robinette, Brian, contributor.
Schor, Juliet, contributor.
Sellers-García, Sylvia, contributor.
Shlala, Elizabeth H., contributor.
Song, Min Hyoung, contributor.
Tonn, Jenna, contributor.
VandeWall, Holly, contributor.
Wang, Dunwei, contributor.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Preface: Curriculum Revision and the Foundations of American Higher Education
PART I: INNOVATION AND THE LIBERAL ARTS CORE
Introduction
Choreographing the Conversation: How Designers Helped Clear an Academic Logjam
What Do We Know? Or, The Perils of Expertise
Innovation
Ambitious Plans Meet Reality: How We Made the Renewed Core Work
Slowing Down and Opening Up: Preparing Faculty to Co-design a General Education Course
Core Renewal as Creative Fidelity
Reflection and Core Renewal
Surprised by Conversation: A Reflection on Core Renewal at Boston College
PART II: TEACHING THE RENEWED CORE
Complex Problem Courses
Teaching about a Planet in Peril
Experimenting with Science and Technology in American Society
Global Implications of Climate Change: Importance of Mentorship in a Core Education
Enduring Question Courses: Bringing Together Divergent Disciplines
How to Live in the Material World: Two Perspectives
Aesthetic and Spiritual Exercises, in and beyond the Classroom
Enduring Question Courses: Differentiating Similar Disciplines
Death in Ancient Greece and Modern Russia: Reflecting on Our Reflection Sessions
Spending a Semester with "A Possession for All Time": Justice and War in Thucydides
Inquiring about Humans and Nature: Creativity, Planning, and Serendipity
The Liberal Arts Core: Engaging with Current Events, 2016-2020
Crossings: Teaching "Roots and Routes: Reading/Writing Identity, Migration, and Culture"
The Architecture of a Black Feminist Classroom: Pedagogical Praxis in "Where #BlackLivesMatter Meets #MeToo"
Truth-Telling in History and Literature: Constructive Uncertainty
Covid Core Lessons
Acknowledgments
Appendix A: The Vision Animating the Boston College Core Curriculum
Appendix B: Boston College Core Curriculum Required Courses
Appendix C: Complex Problem and Enduring Question Courses, 2015-2021
List of Contributors
Index

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