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- Subject: (Fwd: *C&CD*) Do colleges require only first-year writing? (8)
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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>
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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.
-
- 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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