Wasting Away: Chicago's Declining Core

Autor/in	Kissel, Adam
Titel	Wasting Away: Chicago's Declining Core
Quelle	In: Academic Questions, 22 (2009) 3, S.298-313 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0895-4852
DOI	10.1007/s12129-009-9119-5
Schlagwörter	Core Curriculum; Elective Courses; Course Selection (Students); Required Courses; Humanities Instruction; Educational Objectives; Western Civilization; Student Recruitment; Difficulty Level; Degree Requirements; Illinois + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Kerncurriculum; Elective course; Wahlkurs; Course selection; Student; Students; Kurswahl; Pflichtkurs; Geisteswissenschaftlicher Unterricht; Educational objective; Bildungsziel; Erziehungsziel; Schwierigkeitsgrad
Abstract	The University of Chicago met widespread national opposition ten years ago after it instituted a new, less demanding core curriculum to make way for more electives. It was part of a plan to make the curriculum significantly less demanding in order to attract more students and improve the school's bottom line in a time of putative budget deficits. In this article, the author carefully documents the minute curricular dismantling that began during the 1990s that has greatly weakened the famous and vigorous core of the University of Chicago. (Contains 1 table and 20 footnotes.) (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10