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innovation and the liberal arts core / Mary Thomas Crane, David Quigley, Andy Boynton, editors
Preface: Curriculum revision and the foundations of American higher education -- Part I: Innovation and the liberal arts core -- Choreographing the conversation: how designers helped clear an academic logjam -- What do we know? Or, the perils of expertise -- Innovation -- Ambitious plans meet reality: how we made the renewed core work -- Slowing down and opening up: preparing faculty to co-design a general education course -- Core renewal as creative fidelity -- Reflection and core renewal
Surprised by conversation: a reflection on core renewal at Boston College -- Part II: Teaching the renewed core -- Complex problem courses -- Teaching about a planet in peril -- Experimenting with science and technology in American society -- Global implications of climate change: importance of mentorship in a core education -- Enduring question courses: bringing together divergent disciplines -- How to live in the material world: two perspectives -- Aesthetic and spiritual exercises, in and beyond the classroom
Enduring question courses: differentiating similar disciplines -- Death in ancient Greece and modern Russia: reflecting on our reflection sessions -- Spending a semester with "A possession for all time": justice and war in Thucydides -- Inquiring about humans and nature: creativity, planning, and serendipity -- The liberal arts core: engaging with current events, 2016-2020 -- Crossings: teaching "Roots and routes: reading/writing identity, migration, and culture"
The architecture of a black feminist classroom: pedagogical praxis in "Where #BlackLivesMatter meets #MeToo" -- Truth-telling in history and literature: constructive uncertainty -- Covid core lessons -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix A: The vision animating the Boston College core curriculum -- Appendix B: Boston College core curriculum required courses -- Appendix C: Complex problem and enduring question courses, 2015-2021 -- List of contributors -- Index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
New York : Fordham University Press, 2023