Final Recommendations

 A well-constructed curriculum:  Achieves the mission and the learning outcomes adopted by the University community  Is achievable by students in four years  Challenges and engages students  Goes beyond a list of courses  Includes consideration of pedagogy  Is transparent  Is coherent and synergistic  Features vertical integration  Strikes a happy balance between innovation and tradition  Has significant faculty support  Places reasonable demands on faculty, staff, and institutional resources  Includes a plan for demonstration of student learning  Satisfies our obligations to the State of Missouri

 Create first year experience  Decrease size of LSP within 42 hour constraint  Add Integration or coherence to LSP  Build sense of community  Increase engagement in learning  Increase student choice  Allow multiple opportunities for faculty, student and staff feedback

 Portfolios – Student feedback  Critical Thinking Framework  Truman Seminar (first year seminar)  Incorporation of writing, speaking, critical thinking  4 hours – 3 hours plus Truman Week  View broad common topic from multiple perspectives  Add speaking-enhanced requirement (3 courses including Truman Seminar)  Experiential Learning Component  Optional Clusters, linked courses, etc.  Provide additional opportunities for certain elements to be satisfied through test-out or approved non- class experience (i.e. Physical activity)  Allow “double counting”  120 vs. 124 hours

 Broader than modes  No discipline “owns” a particular discourse and same course may satisfy more than one discourse (but can only count in one)  Intellectual conversations across disciplinary boundaries  Discourses of the Natural World  Discourses of Symbolic Systems  Discourses of the Creative Worlds  Discourses of Social Worlds

 Truman Seminar – 4 hours  Writing and Speaking enhanced courses to replace ENG 190 and COMM 170  Replaces 1 hour from Truman Week  JINS  Complete 24 discourse hours  no more than two from any discipline can be used to satisfy a particular discourse  Must take at least 6 hours in each of four discourses  May use major courses to satisfy particular discourse, but won’t count toward 24 hour requirement  Offered sample learning objectives  2 Intercultural/International courses  120 hours

 Truman Seminar – 4 hours  Writing and Speaking enhanced courses to replace ENG 190 and COMM 170  Replaces 1 hour from Truman Week  Modes foundation – same modes and opportunity to choose 7 out of 8  JINS  1 Intercultural class  120 hours

 Truman Seminar – 4 hours  Writing and Speaking enhanced courses to replace ENG 190 and COMM 170  Replaces 1 hour from Truman Week  Modes foundation  Decrease number of modes to 6 (Combines 2 Aesthetic Modes and 2 Science Modes)  Must take all six modes  1 Intercultural course  120 hours