Curriculum by Design (EPUB) von Mary Thomas Crane

Preface: Curriculum Revision and the Foundations of American Higher Education
David Quigley | xi

PART I: INNOVATION AND THE LIBERAL ARTS CORE | 1
Choreographing the Conversation: How Designers Helped Clear an Academic Logjam
William Bole | 3

What Do We Know? Or, The Perils of Expertise
Toby Bottorf | 13

Innovation
Andy Boynton | 21

Ambitious Plans Meet Reality: How We Made the Renewed Core Work
Mary Thomas Crane | 31

Slowing Down and Opening Up: Preparing Faculty to Co-design a General Education Course
Stacy Grooters | 41

Core Renewal as Creative Fidelity
Gregory Kalscheur, S.J. | 50

Reflection and Core Renewal
Jack Butler, S.J. | 62

Surprised by Conversation: A Reflection on Core Renewal at Boston College
Brian D. Robinette | 69

PART II: TEACHING THE RENEWED CORE | 73

Complex Problem Courses | 75

Teaching about a Planet in Peril
Prasannan Parthasarathi and Juliet B. Schor | 77

Experimenting with Science and Technology in American Society
Jenna Tonn | 82

Global Implications of Climate Change: Importance of Mentorship in a Core Education
Tara Pisani Gareau and Brian J. Gareau | 104

Enduring Question Courses: Bringing Together Divergent Disciplines | 115

How to Live in the Material World: Two Perspectives
Elizabeth Kowaleski Wallace and Dunwei Wang | 117

Aesthetic and Spiritual Exercises, in and beyond the Classroom
Daniel Callahan and Brian D. Robinette | 123

Enduring Question Courses: Differentiating Similar Disciplines | 133

Death in Ancient Greece and Modern Russia: Reflecting on Our Reflection Sessions
Hanne Eisenfeld and Thomas Epstein | 135

Spending a Semester with “A Possession for All Time”: Justice and War in Thucydides
Robert C. Bartlett | 144

Inquiring about Humans and Nature: Creativity, Planning, and Serendipity
Holly VandeWall and Min Hyoung Song | 150

The Liberal Arts Core: Engaging with Current Events, 2016–2020 | 157

Crossings: Teaching “Roots and Routes: Reading/Writing Identity, Migration, and Culture”
Lynne Anderson and Elizabeth Graver | 159

The Architecture of a Black Feminist Classroom: Pedagogical Praxis
in “Where #BlackLivesMatter Meets #MeToo”
Régine Michelle Jean-Charles | 167

Truth-Telling in History and Literature: Constructive Uncertainty
Allison Adair and Sylvia Sellers-García | 178

Covid Core Lessons
Elizabeth H. Shlala | 190

Acknowledgments | 199

Appendix A: The Vision Animating the Boston College Core Curriculum | 203

Appendix B: Boston College Core Curriculum Required Courses | 209

Appendix C: Complex Problem and Enduring Question Courses, 2015–2021 | 211

List of Contributors | 235

Index | 243