Where the Committee is early October

The committee in the next two weeks is going to be thinking hard and coming up with a very preliminary draft of structural suggestions. Included will be some suggestions for how Core classes get 're-envisioned' and the process for going from Core goals to actual classes. I can honestly say that we do not know right now how that is going to look- we have lots of ideas, and some favorites, but things can easily change, esp. as faculty continuously give us input. The major learning outcomes however seem to be pretty stable (we have not gotten the survey results back, so that may be premature, but from the comments at numerous meetings it seems like they may not change all that much). So in terms of program review, one might start by thinking about how to assess whether courses in the program that are primarily addressed to the Core are focusing on those learning objectives.

I think in about three weeks we're going to be in a position to say a lot more...