"So perhaps there's no sense in arguing... we can all walk around, feeling disgruntled with life, and we can justifiably wangst about the 'other camp'."
If I were a faculty member, I would find a great deal of value in arguing this out and figuring out what the purpose was for each discipline before trying to hash out the next rewriting to the Core Curriculum. It would be nice for us to have some description of what we were trying to accomplish before we wrote down how we were planning on accomplishing it.
I wrote an earlier rant some time ago about the weighting toward the Liberal Arts side of the core curriculum. I don't think it's all bad, but I do think that the sciences side should start requiring a higher level of rigor in their own Core classes. But that's a matter for the curriculum committee to figure out.
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Date: 2005-12-03 06:02 pm (UTC)If I were a faculty member, I would find a great deal of value in arguing this out and figuring out what the purpose was for each discipline before trying to hash out the next rewriting to the Core Curriculum. It would be nice for us to have some description of what we were trying to accomplish before we wrote down how we were planning on accomplishing it.
I wrote an earlier rant some time ago about the weighting toward the Liberal Arts side of the core curriculum. I don't think it's all bad, but I do think that the sciences side should start requiring a higher level of rigor in their own Core classes. But that's a matter for the curriculum committee to figure out.