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- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 14:05:35 -0700
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- Subject: Re: stretch and jumbo comp classes
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- At the U of Arizona, there are several kinds of "different" Freshman
- Comp courses besides the standard 2-semester sequence plus 1. One kind
- is designed with another department and restricted to the students in
- a course there, e.g., Engineering ###, with the 2 tgether carrying 6
- credits as a block. There are honors sections which differ from 101-102
- in level of expectation and from each other in content and focus. There
- are also some sections labeled "experimental", which focus on a specific
- approach and/or content: current ones include even more emphasis on
- cultural diversity (the regular courses stress that a lot) and gay/lesbian
- literature. The trend in the department seems clearly to be for more
- and more and more of this kind of diversity.
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- The problem is, in my opinion, that the students have no say about what
- kind of focus they will find (except the engineers), and people are
- working on what they could do t incorporate this aspect of student choice.
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- Macey Taylor maceytay@ccit.arizona.edu
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