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- Subject: (Fwd: *C&CD*) RE: (Fwd: *C&CD*) Do colleges require only first-year writing? (8) (17)
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- Entry: 17
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 21:37:53 -0600
- From: Gallus <galbri@abel.bethel.edu>
- Subject: RE: (Fwd: *C&CD*) Do colleges require only first-year writing? (8) (17)
- Message-id: <199301070337.AA01173@abel.bethel.edu>
- Reply-to: Computers & Composition Digest (R. Royar) <R0MILL01@ULKYVX.BITNET>
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- In comp.edu.composition article <1993Jan4.190053.1@ulkyvx.louisville.edu> you
- wrote:
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- > Entry: 8
- > Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 05:01:00 EST
- > From: IN%"RobertRoyar@Delphi.COM" Robert Royar, (C&CD Moderator)
- > Message-id: <1992Dec29.050100.v7.055.1.Grendel.Lair@Cratylus>
- > Subject: Do colleges require only first-year writing? (8)
- > Reply-to: "Computers & Composition Digest (R. Royar)" <R0MILL01@ULKYVX.BITNET>
- > Organization: Cratylus Educational Software
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- > >From: CROWLEY@NAUVAX.BITNET
- > >Subject: Standardizing Composition Classes (*MBU*)
- > >Message-id: <01GSV3I45ZK08WX75X@ulkyvx.bitnet>
- >
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- > > 4. Institutional politics: I have concluded that the one thing that
- > >makes FE different from all other college courses is the fact that it is
- > >required. If we don't require it, perhaps (this is a big perhaps) it might
- > >assume the status enjoyed by other university courses.
- >
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- > Does this mean that many colleges do not require other courses from all
- > students? We require math (which includes basic math if placed in it),
- > history, philosophy, intermediate writing, lit, and a few others. These are
- > all part of a 30+-hour "core curriculum" with standard syllabi (our admin
- > showed us accred-agency docs that suopport their claim that standard
- > syllabi are necessary for these courses) but what NYIT and our accreditors
- > call syllabi (10-25 page documents) are a bit more elaborate than what MBU
- > has been calling syllabi (which we would call course outlines).
- >
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- > As an undergrad I had to take 12 hrs of required German language (the
- > specific language was mandated by ones major which for me began as
- > Chemistry). I had to take history, and a few electives from a very
- > constrained range. Even at the senior level there was one required
- > (non-English) "elective" which I hated to have to take.
- >
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- > I assumed that most colleges had some required core courses. Is this just
- > naive?
- >
-
- > -- Robert Royar (RobertRoyar@Delphi.com) New York Institute of Technology
- > "If the Russians can get rid of the Communists, the Americans can get rid
- > of the Republicans." - Rudy Rucker
- >
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-
- What are you complaining about? I have to take approximately 60 credit hours of
- so-called core curriculim. I am not complaining when I say this, as I realize that by
- choosing to attend a Christian Liberal Arts school, I am subject to the "general ed."
- courses as much, if not more than, the next guy. Why is this? Because the administration
- of this place of education, throughout its many years of experience, has decided that
- these courses help us, as students, to become better, more well rounded people. I too, do
- not like some of the courses that I have to take, but then again, I am not attending a "Tech"
- school!
- Looking forward to a reply-
- Brian K. Gallus
- (galbri@bethel.edu)
-
- P.S. I happen to be conservatve.....
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