General Education Links

Intellectual Foundations

General Education Resources

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Principles,
Programs &
Courses

Report to the College Senate

of the

Select Committee

on General Education

8 November 2002

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General Education Principles & Objectives

Cronon, Willliam J. "HIV, Health, and Liberal Education." In: Wm. David Burns, Ed. Learning for Our Common Health: How an Academic Focus on HIV/AIDS Will Improve Education and Health. (Washington, DC: Association of American Colleges and Universities, 1999). Also published in The American Scholar, Volume 67, Number 4 (Autumn 1998), adapted and reprinted in, Volume 85, Number 1 (Winter 1999).

Martha C. Nussbaum Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997)

American Association of Colleges & Universities (AAC&U) Knowledge Network on General Education. A wealth of resources on every aspect of general education

American Association for Liberal Education. Provides accreditation of liberal arts curricula. A potentially useful set of standards.

Foundation for Critical Thinking. Resources on critical thinking that may have some use in developing that aspect of general education curricula.

Salisbury State General Education Initiative. See the Attributes, they would like to engnder in students; the Learning Goals for their general education program, and Links to other sites relevant to general education.

Existing General Education Programs at Other Colleges & Universities

Appalachian State's Watauga College Program A wealth of ideas especially for first year interdisciplinary courses with potential for a learning community approach

Central Michigan University General Studies A distributional general education program with a heavy emphsis on interdisciplinarity. Includes "competency requirments" in written and oral English and mathematics.

University of Deleware. Problem-based education. Includes extensive documentation on the problem-based approach, including course syllabi. Includes links to other colleges and universities, in the US and elsewhere, that use a problem-based appraoch.

Evergreen State. An interesting, interdisciplinary general education program with interdisciplinary course descriptions.

James Madison U. General Education Students choose among packages of courses to fulfill five clusters of learning objectives: Skills for the 21st Century; Arts & Humanities; The Natural World; Sociall & Cultural Processes; and Individuals in the Human Community. Detailed learning objectives are listed for each.

University of Maastricht. Problem-based education. Includes extensive documentation on the problem-based approach, including course syllabi. Includes links to other colleges and universities, in the US and elsewhere, that use a problem-based appraoch.

Portland State University Studies Portland State is one of BSC's peer institutions--very much like us in terms of size, student population, etc. They recently adopted an interdisciplinary core required of all students--it's fascinating and controversial.

Princeton University General Education Program. Categories of requirements include Epistemology and Cognition; Ethical Thought and Moral Values; Historical Analysis; Literature and the Arts; Quantitative Reasoning; Science and Technology, with laboratory; Social Analysis; Foreign Language.

Wichita State General Education Handbook. Useful format with goals & principles clearly listed.

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General Education Principles & Objectives
	Cronon, Willliam J. "HIV, Health, and Liberal Education." In: Wm. David Burns, Ed. Learning for Our Common Health: How an Academic Focus on HIV/AIDS Will Improve Education and Health. (Washington, DC: Association of American Colleges and Universities, 1999). Also published in The American Scholar, Volume 67, Number 4 (Autumn 1998), adapted and reprinted in, Volume 85, Number 1 (Winter 1999).
	Martha C. Nussbaum Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997)
	American Association of Colleges & Universities (AAC&U) Knowledge Network on General Education. A wealth of resources on every aspect of general education
	American Association for Liberal Education. Provides accreditation of liberal arts curricula. A potentially useful set of standards.
	Foundation for Critical Thinking. Resources on critical thinking that may have some use in developing that aspect of general education curricula.
	Salisbury State General Education Initiative. See the Attributes, they would like to engnder in students; the Learning Goals for their general education program, and Links to other sites relevant to general education.

Existing General Education Programs at Other Colleges & Universities
	Appalachian State's Watauga College Program A wealth of ideas especially for first year interdisciplinary courses with potential for a learning community approach
	Central Michigan University General Studies A distributional general education program with a heavy emphsis on interdisciplinarity. Includes "competency requirments" in written and oral English and mathematics.
	University of Deleware. Problem-based education. Includes extensive documentation on the problem-based approach, including course syllabi. Includes links to other colleges and universities, in the US and elsewhere, that use a problem-based appraoch.
	Evergreen State. An interesting, interdisciplinary general education program with interdisciplinary course descriptions.
	James Madison U. General Education Students choose among packages of courses to fulfill five clusters of learning objectives: Skills for the 21st Century; Arts & Humanities; The Natural World; Sociall & Cultural Processes; and Individuals in the Human Community. Detailed learning objectives are listed for each.
	University of Maastricht. Problem-based education. Includes extensive documentation on the problem-based approach, including course syllabi. Includes links to other colleges and universities, in the US and elsewhere, that use a problem-based appraoch.
	Portland State University Studies Portland State is one of BSC's peer institutions--very much like us in terms of size, student population, etc. They recently adopted an interdisciplinary core required of all students--it's fascinating and controversial.
	Princeton University General Education Program. Categories of requirements include Epistemology and Cognition; Ethical Thought and Moral Values; Historical Analysis; Literature and the Arts; Quantitative Reasoning; Science and Technology, with laboratory; Social Analysis; Foreign Language.
	Wichita State General Education Handbook. Useful format with goals & principles clearly listed.