Students at Harvard, Yale and Bard College participated in an experimental a course this fall that takes the notion of a core curriculum to its logical extreme. The course is called Great Big Ideas, and it purports to survey the entire landscape of intellectual discourse in a single semester. The Floating University Web site bills the course as “a survey of twelve major fields delivered by their most important thinkers and practitioners.”It’s sort of like the core curriculum offered at UChicago and Columbia, but compressed into a single course. Read more at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/college-inc/post/an-undergraduate-education-in-one-course/2011/12/19/gIQA1kzr4O_blog.html?wprss=college-inc
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