2008 Woodie Awards
Getting To The Core Of The Issue: Revising The Curriculum
David Simon
Issue date: 11/19/04 Section: News
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Prefer Eastern Traditions to Western Traditions? Felt you have lost your Scientific Perspectives?
The time for students to make their voice heard has come, as 2007 will mark the year of the complete revision of the Core curriculum and the distribution requirements. Students, faculty and alumni together will decide how to improve the skills all Colgate students will have to acquire by graduation.
Colgate had been trying to design courses specifically aimed at introducing students to different ways of thinking since 1920. Survey courses were the attempt then until the Core curriculum was instituted in 1940. As of now, more than three quarters of Colgate faculty participate in teaching the approximately 70 CORE courses offered each semester.
No one has serious doubts that the Core curriculum plays an important role in the Colgate experience.
"[The program is] one of the most elegant and long-standing cores of the country," Thomas A. Bartlett Chair and Professor of English; Acting Director of the Picker Art Gallery Jane L. Pinchin said.
Associate Professor of Art and Art History Rob McVaugh agreed.
"The Core has done a great deal of good for many generations of Colgate students and faculty."
"The courses allowed me to examine texts and views that are not similar to mine, and forced me to think about other views," President of the Student Government Association (SGA) Ram Parimi said. "They gave me a sense of roundedness that allowed me to decide on my Political Science major."
The Core curriculum is tweaked every year in order to better suit it to present needs, but the first comprehensive external review of the program was completed this spring.
"The review showed that the program is in good shape," Director of University Studies Lourdes Rojas said.
The committee put forward several recommendations as well, such as improving dialogue between the different components of the CORE program and involving globalization issues within the Core Cultures component.
The time for students to make their voice heard has come, as 2007 will mark the year of the complete revision of the Core curriculum and the distribution requirements. Students, faculty and alumni together will decide how to improve the skills all Colgate students will have to acquire by graduation.
Colgate had been trying to design courses specifically aimed at introducing students to different ways of thinking since 1920. Survey courses were the attempt then until the Core curriculum was instituted in 1940. As of now, more than three quarters of Colgate faculty participate in teaching the approximately 70 CORE courses offered each semester.
No one has serious doubts that the Core curriculum plays an important role in the Colgate experience.
"[The program is] one of the most elegant and long-standing cores of the country," Thomas A. Bartlett Chair and Professor of English; Acting Director of the Picker Art Gallery Jane L. Pinchin said.
Associate Professor of Art and Art History Rob McVaugh agreed.
"The Core has done a great deal of good for many generations of Colgate students and faculty."
"The courses allowed me to examine texts and views that are not similar to mine, and forced me to think about other views," President of the Student Government Association (SGA) Ram Parimi said. "They gave me a sense of roundedness that allowed me to decide on my Political Science major."
The Core curriculum is tweaked every year in order to better suit it to present needs, but the first comprehensive external review of the program was completed this spring.
"The review showed that the program is in good shape," Director of University Studies Lourdes Rojas said.
The committee put forward several recommendations as well, such as improving dialogue between the different components of the CORE program and involving globalization issues within the Core Cultures component.