Creating a New Core Curriculum

A blog devoted to discussion of core curriculum and general education requirements, written in the context of my service as chair of a committee to draft a new core for Santa Clara University, a Jesuit, Catholic university in Silicon Valley.

Friday, February 24, 2006

What a diversity requirement should not be?

University of Nevada-Reno has a diversity requirement that blends international with ethnic studies with disability studies... too broad? The learning objective for the requirement is: "to prepare and encourage our students to acquire what has been called intercultural competencies (foreign language acquisition and cultural sensitivity)." This is not the currently faddish language of assessment of student outcomes- the class prepares and encourages just by being a class. What measurable result is to be attained?

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