ILP Interim Progress Report: 2004-2005
In
this July 2005 progress report we will
highlight the University Studies
curriculum
reform
questions that
have taken on importance during the
2004-2005 academic year and how those
questions shaped our work this past year and
what they suggest for the tasks ahead. We
will speak briefly about steps we have taken
to rearticulate
our approach to
science literacy,
especially in Freshman Inquiry (and here we
also welcome you to look at our
case study on integrative
learning in
an interdisciplinary science-oriented
cluster course). We will then turn to a
consideration of the
results of two
surveys,
one aimed at telling us whether students'
experience of cluster courses was
intellectually coherent and another asking
University Studies faculty to what degree
aspects of internationalization were a part
of their course. Finally, we turn to
findings about
cluster course offerings
that
have significant bearing on how we move to
greater conceptual and methodological
coherence in Sophomore Inquiry and cluster
courses.