I would think that the criticisms brought by Ken's group are valid.
An introduction to a discipline should be just that--an introduction to the
discipline, not a watered down version to pique the interest of possible
future students of the area. As such, it needs to have content: all the
basic
I can recall how exhaustive it became for a faculty member to offer a new
course.The process went somewhat like this:written proposal sent to a faculty
committee 2)department chair 3)general meeting of the faculty 4) Board of
trustees and so on.It would take about one year before the new
I received my desk copy early last week, only 272 pages. This
morning I received, from APA, tracking information for the shipment. I must be
in a time warp.
Cheers,
Let me re-focus this discussion:
Would one have different learning objectives for majors and for non-majors
taking the intro to psychology course.
Now let me respond to previous emails that lead me to this refocusing:
I disagree with some of the sentiments expressed about critical thinking.
I
I know there are institutions where such non-major classes are taught as
general life-skills course with several instructors from varied disciplines.
Perhaps this is something that Bok/Annette has in mind? To answer Annette, in
my view, such a class would not have to have different
I can just discuss my experience with creating new courses (for which I held
the record in a contest of fellow faculty at my most recent position at
Indiana University Kokomo at 14 that I could remember). At state colleges and
universities, the procedure that Michael described seems to be the
At our private liberal arts college, it is easier to do it, the first time
anyway, as a selected topic since the title is already in the catalog. It is
also easier since teaching it as a selected topic can give you a run-through to
see what kind of enrollment might be expected in order to
Are there tales of accreditation visitors? I know of a case where some visitors
arrived on the campus a few weeks before their schedule visit.Disguised as
students and staff they were able to listen and sit on some of the preparatory
meetings and lnote all the negative comments and how to
In our department, newly proposed courses must be approved by the department to
be initially offered at least twice as a Special Topics course (to gauge
student interest). If there is sufficient enrolment over these two offerings,
our departmental undergraduate curriculum committee takes a
Michael,
I have served on various accreditation site visits for the APA over the
past 12 years or so. Not only would such behaviors NOT be condoned by
APA (or ANY of the site visitors with whom I have worked), I wouldn't
necessarily see the benefit in doing such a thing. Most of the programs
Hi,
According to my trainer, who has a degree and certifications in this area, BMI
is relatively accurate as a health index for sedentary folks or those whose
activity levels could be described as average (little regular exercise). It
is not accurate for those who are? athletic and tend to
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