Why Is A Culminating Academic Experience A Good Idea?
The idea that a culminating academic experience for our students would be a good idea started with the faculty in the late 1980s and early 1990s, when we discussed the introduction of senior seminars. That initiative never got off the ground for a variety of reasons, among which were questions about the financial support that would be available for such an initiative. In the summer of 1998, several groups of faculty got together in FFE workshops to explore the ideas of advanced seminars, which could take several forms, and other types of educational experiences. What faculty were responding to in both cases, as was evident in our discussions, was a sense that Grinnell students often “meandered” through courses in their final year or two. Earlier that summer, a faculty workshop on transcript analysis, conducted as part of our NCA accreditation process, came to some similar conclusions about what appeared to be, in the worst cases, students who graduated with a major and a bunch of cours
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