Word: pedersen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Easing the requirements would make first-years feel freer to take a freshman seminar, said Dean of Undergraduate Education Susan G. Pedersen ’81-’82, who proposed the measure. The Faculty has drastically increased seminar offerings in the past year, and eliminating a Core requirement would encourage more students to take advantage of the program, she said...
...yesterday’s CUE meeting, Pedersen acknowledged that reducing Core requirements by one course does not answer larger questions of the Core’s purpose, which she says the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) needs to address eventually. But she said the measure would give students more flexibility in their course selection—at least on a temporary basis...
...don’t know where we are going in curricular matters, but this is something we feel we can to do now for our students,” Pedersen said...
...Pedersen said the recent increase in the Freshman Seminar program had sparked renewed interest in the issue...
...fact, Pedersen and the Core Standing Committee had initially explored the possibility of integrating freshman seminars into the Core, but concluded that “Freshman Seminar instructors should not be constrained by the Core guidelines as they design their seminars...