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Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 10:39:43 -0400 (EDT)
From: MORRISF@cofc.edu
Subject: group 9 comment on proposed new goals
To: gened@cofc.edu
Errors-to: gened-error@cofc.edu
Reply-to: GENED@cofc.edu
Organization: College of Charleston

Group 9 offers the following comments regarding the proposed new goal statements.

RE: #1: While the current curriculum adequately support goal 1 up to the last comma, it does not adequately support the acquisition of a knowledge of the relationship among the branches of knowledge.

RE: #2: The current institutional structure does not support the acquistion of interdisciplinary understanding.

RE: #3: Pockets of support exist for #3 (e.g. Religious Studies and Theater). In the current distribution of minimum degree requirements there is no way for all students to meet #3.

RE: #4 English and foreign languages adequately support the development of effective reading, writing and oral communication skills. Other departments bear the responsibility of addressing the goal also; however, neither the resoruces nor the will are present to address this responsibility.

RE: #5: The current curriculum adequately supports goal # 5.

RE: #6: The current curriculum adequately addresses this goal. The library provides resources which enable student to meet this goal through their coursework in virtually every discipline.

RE: #7: Through extracurricular activities and academic advising and cournseling this goal is adequately meet.

RE: #8: Some disciplines address this goal directly through their coursework (e.g. music, theater, natural sciences); others support it through student organizations that they sponsor; student government, athletics and other student organizations support this goal.

RE: #9: Current curriculum and extracurricular activities (e.g. Honor Court, Cougar Pause, etc.) address this goal.


Reported by F. Morris for Group 9.