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Open Curriculum Model Presentation, Friday, February 5, 3 pm

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If you haven’t gotten a chance to hear about the proposed curricular framework for our revised general education curriculum, please join the General Education Renewal Committee (GERC) for a presentation on Friday, February 5, 3-4 pm in the North Reading Room of the Library.  This presentation is open to all interested faculty and staff.

During the Fall 2015 the Curriculum Models Group reviewed the feedback from the August 2015 General Faculty Meeting as well as the other feedback gathered from St. Edward’s University students, alumni, faculty and staff during the renewal process.  Specifically, committee members considered feedback on the 3 sample models and used it to shape a single Proposed Curriculum Model.

This curriculum framework is being presented to SEU faculty in school meetings during the month of January.  It will also be presented to the Student Senate on Thursday, February 4 at 7 pm.  Following these presentations, all SEU faculty and key staff members will be able to submit feedback in a February straw poll.  GERC will consider this feedback and address major concerns, then present a curriculum model for formal Senate vote in approximately March 2016.

Faculty Meeting Table Discussions

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Discussion Questions

  1. Review the commonalities between the 3 curriculum plans.  Do you support these commonalities?  Any comments or questions? (10 mins)
  2. Our next step will be merging the 3 plans.  What strikes you as positive and distinctive within the specific plans?  In other words, what elements of a particular plan would you like to keep? (20 mins)
  3. The models seek to address the St. Edward’s mission and the UELOs.  Do you see ways in which this could be improved? (20 mins)

Submit Your Notes Here

Or email to rebeccad@stedwards.edu

Preliminary Results: Critical, Creative, Collaborative thinking, and Problem solving?

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Students will use critical, creative, and collaborative thinking to solve problems and achieve common goals.

Question 1.  What demonstrable qualities of this outcome should a SEU graduate possess?

Themes/Suggestions:

  • Ability to work in teams/work collaboratively
  • Ability to synthesize, summarize, and critically assess and communicate material and information
  • Students should be able to complete increasingly complex work that requires critical thinking
  • Ability to write sustained, thoughtful and topically relevant narratives about a range of subjects using clear, standard English usage
  • To listen to many stakeholders and find the most agreeable solutions.

 

Question 2. Please provide your views on how this outcome can best be achieved in general education and co-curricular programming.

Themes/Suggestions:

  • Stress more group projects
  • Collaborate with Career and Professional Develop so that students take a strength based inventory which helps to guide their learning
  • Case studies, project based learning, writing
  • Problem solving applied to concrete and current events
  • Develop research guides for specific classes and have guided research class sessions by reference librarians
  • Scaffold projects and approaches to problem solving that require and model multi-disciplinary problem solving.

Critical, Creative, Collaborative thinking, and Problem solving

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Sanzio_01_Plato_AristotleOur next question of the week survey addresses the outcome, “Students will use critical, creative, and collaborative thinking to solve problems and achieve common goals.” Share your input on our brief survey here,  https://sites.stedwards.edu/seugened/fall-faculty-feedback-schedule/ and/or join us for a live discussion on Friday, November 21, 3:30-5 pm in Fleck 305.

Please note that you can take this survey and all others at any point during Fall 2014, by visiting the Surveys and Events page of this website: https://sites.stedwards.edu/seugened/fall-faculty-feedback-schedule/

Preliminary Results: Spiritual and Cultural Perspectives?

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Students will identify and analyze one’s own spiritual and cultural perspectives and demonstrate respect for other’s views and values.

Question 1.  What demonstrable qualities of this outcome should a SEU graduate possess?

Themes/Suggestions:

  • Faith based on action (service to others)
  • Ability to articulate experiences in the classroom and community
  • Ability to listen without prejudice
  • Understanding of, open-ness to various historical, spiritual/religious, traditions/beliefs, cultures
  • Ability to articulate one’s own spirituality while being respectful, appreciative, and knowledgeable of other religions and cultures


Question 2. Please provide your views on how this outcome can best be achieved in general education and co-curricular programming.

Themes/Suggestions:

  • Academic classes in religious traditions, values, ethics, and practices
  • Workshops/programs on diversity, respect, dignity
  • Events on campus such as mass, devotions, ecumenical services, Christian, Jewish, Muslim…
  • Service hour quota satisfied by study abroad or community outreach
  • Contemporary approaches that consider the effects of the blurring of boundaries and borders due to globalization
  • Deliberate collaboration between first year courses and Campus Ministry
  • Required courses in Theology; components of each course that touch on spirituality/religion and culture

Spiritual and Cultural Perspectives

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Our next question of the week survey addresses the outcome, “Students will identify and analyze one’s own spiritual and cultural perspectives and demonstrate respect for other’s views and values.” Share your input on our brief survey here,  http://stedwards.co1.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_9Gr71p55wbmS7CB and/or join us for a live discussion on Friday, November 14, 2-3:30 pm in Fleck 314.

Please note that you can take this survey and all others at any point during Fall 2014, by visiting the Surveys and Events page of this website: https://sites.stedwards.edu/seugened/fall-faculty-feedback-schedule/

Preliminary Results: Communication (oral, written, visual)?

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Students will communicate effectively through oral, written, and visual forms.

Question 1. What demonstrable qualities of this outcome should a SEU graduate possess?

Themes/Suggestions: 

  • Write with correct grammar along with decorum, style, and audience awareness
  • Create a resume and cover letter; business oriented reports
  • Learn MLA format
  • Growth in effective speaking, writing clearly, and creativity
  • Ability to convey a narrative visually and in multiple modes
  • Demonstration of competence of these skills in foreign language for majors
  • Support researched arguments
  • Write and speak fluently and persuasively in a variety of contexts

Question 2. Please provide your views on how this outcome can best be achieved in general education and co-curricular programming.

Themes/Suggestions:

  • Papers, journal assignments, resumes, mock interviews
  • Required General Education first-semester course/First Year writing program
  • Scaffold, sequenced, and cumulative assignments across the 4-year curriculum with shared rubrics and outcomes
  • 15-20 student maximum in these courses
  • An oral communication center
  • Cross-over with the majors

How should students learn oral, written, & visual communication?

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Roman-Etruscan statue, L'ArringatoreOur next question of the week survey addresses the outcome, “Students will communicate effectively through oral, written, and visual forms.” Share your input on our brief survey here, http://stedwards.co1.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_01WS7vtUKFYSc6N, and/or join us for a live discussion on Friday, November 7, 2-3:30 pm in TH 104.

Please note that you can take this survey and all others at any point during Fall 2014, by visiting the Surveys and Events page of this website: https://sites.stedwards.edu/seugened/fall-faculty-feedback-schedule/

Preliminary Results: Global/Moral Reasoning/Social Justice?

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Students will integrate global perspectives and moral reasoning to make personal and professional decisions in pursuit of social justice.

Question 1. What demonstrable qualities of this outcome should a SEU graduate possess?

Themes/Suggestions: 

  • Second language proficiency
  • Ability to apply ethical analyses to resolve value conflicts through a multi-cultural lens
  • Study abroad service experience
  • Unbiased, informed, evidence-based critical analysis of all sides of an issue
  • Ability to evaluate the global impact of one’s own and others’ specific local actions on the natural and human world
  • Ability to analyze substantial connections between the world views, power structures, and experiences of multiple cultures historically or in contemporary contexts, incorporating respectful interactions with other cultures

Question 2. Please provide your views on how this outcome can best be achieved in general education and co-curricular programming.

Themes/Suggestions:

  • More civic engagement courses/opportunities
  • Change ethics course to “Moral Reasoning and Social Justice”
  • Mandatory study abroad requirement of all students
  • Co-teach courses with faculty from other disciplines
  • Study abroad with a service component
  • Project based/ experiential learning
  • Undergraduate research
  • Explicitly scaffold elements within curricular and co-curricular programming

 

Global and Moral Reasoning and Social Justice Input Sought

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global_map_sept_2013Our question of the week for October 6-10 focuses on Global and Moral Reasoning and Social Justice.  The specific UELO is: “The Learner will integrate global perspectives and moral reasoning to make personal and professional decisions in pursuit of social justice.”

Share your input on our brief survey here, http://stedwards.co1.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_1LBaKL1UrK3bg4R, and/or join us for a live discussion on Friday, October 10, 2-3:30 pm in Mabee B.