College: The Undergraduate Experience in AmericaSponsored by The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Boyer considers the undergraduate experience in American higher education, paying particular attention to the way institutional structures and procedures affect the lives of students. He not only identifies the strengths and problems, but also suggests ways in which colleges and universities might be improved and students better served. |
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Page 66
... curriculum . . . and on the other , a need for some principle of unity , since without it the curriculum flies into pieces and even the studies of any one student are atomic or unbalanced or both . " 37 Our present academic world would ...
... curriculum . . . and on the other , a need for some principle of unity , since without it the curriculum flies into pieces and even the studies of any one student are atomic or unbalanced or both . " 37 Our present academic world would ...
Page 89
... curriculum in principle , but I think requiring a foreign language is unrealistic - one of my col- leagues characterized it as something that would wind up in the joke column of The New Yorker . As for the ' themes ' proposal , I have ...
... curriculum in principle , but I think requiring a foreign language is unrealistic - one of my col- leagues characterized it as something that would wind up in the joke column of The New Yorker . As for the ' themes ' proposal , I have ...
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... curriculum that encourages students to venture " across the disciplinary boundaries but not without a map in hand , " to use Ann Hulbert's helpful formulation.18 As students relate the content of one course to an- other , they begin to ...
... curriculum that encourages students to venture " across the disciplinary boundaries but not without a map in hand , " to use Ann Hulbert's helpful formulation.18 As students relate the content of one course to an- other , they begin to ...
Contents
FROM SCHOOL TO COLLEGE | 9 |
A CLEAR AND VITAL MISSION | 41 |
THE ACADEMIC PROGRAM | 71 |
Copyright | |
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