tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post7654636139250697877..comments2024-03-15T01:11:32.832-07:00Comments on Bardiac: OrganizingBardiachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11846065504793800266noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-90538868731339737592012-02-22T18:00:47.812-08:002012-02-22T18:00:47.812-08:00Wow, I'm getting to this really late.
We rede...Wow, I'm getting to this really late.<br /><br />We redesigned our major a couple of years ago. We kept the period/area requirements and a couple of others (intro to the major, capstone, Shakespeare & linguistics), but we added a skills sequence and renumbered all our courses while also cleaning old ones out of the catalogue and adding new ones.<br /><br />100-level courses are comp only.<br /><br />200-level courses are surveys, and majors may take no more than two for credit.<br /><br />Our intro to lit analysis course is now a gateway course (previously it could be taken at any time), but it's at the 300-level to make sure transfer students can get upper-division credit.<br /><br />300-349 courses focus on close-reading skills (students must take 2).<br /><br />350-399 courses examine literary texts in some kind of context--historical, theoretical, scholarly-critical, etc. (students must take 2).<br /><br />400-level courses are seminars, and should involve a longer research project (students must take 1).<br /><br />And then there's a senior capstone, with a major research project.<br /><br />It's a little bit complicated when it comes to advisement, and we haven't been able to hold as rigidly to the system of pre-reqs that we intended, but I think it's been quite successful.Flaviahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17832765671541392835noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-61138538183070795912012-02-15T08:13:12.511-08:002012-02-15T08:13:12.511-08:00Check out Dickinson: http://www.dickinson.edu/aca...Check out Dickinson: http://www.dickinson.edu/academics/programs/english/ca78johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00354986213677240264noreply@blogger.com