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Assembly
LXI: The Undergraduate Curriculum at Yale
Thursday, October 24 - Saturday,
October 26, 2002
Assembly Chair Marc B. Lockhart '84
Executive Summary
FRIDAY MORNING
An Alumni Exercise in Course Selection and Principles of Choice
AYA's Executive Director Jeff Brenzel '75, introduced
this session by showing a clip from the Yale admissions video and
explaining the reasoning behind the course selection exercise given
to the delegates. (Click here to see the
"Assignment") While it is admittedly an artificial
exercise to ask those long out of college to reconsider their four
years of study, the point of the assigned task was to
- provide delegates with an opportunity to reflect on their own
undergraduate experiences, wherever they happened to attend college;
- expose delegates to the current Yale College Blue Book with
its thousands of offerings;
- recall to delegates that it is one thing to theorize about principles
that we think should apply to others, but another thing for an
individual to make his or her own choices;
- determine by means of the exercise what their accumulated life
experience would lead delegates to articulate as their principles
for making curriculum choices.
The delegates then broke up into small group
sessions around campus with the following residential college and
Yale College deans: Hugh Flick, Silliman College; Joe
Gordon, Yale College Dean's Office (YCDO); John Mangan,
Jonathan Edwards College; Rosemary Jones, Morse College;
George Levesque, Berkeley College; Stephen Lassonde,
Calhoun College; Penny Laurans, YCDO; Peter Quimby,
Davenport College; Mark Schenker, YCDO; Nicole Parisier,
Branford College; John Loge, Timothy Dwight College; and
Jennifer Wood Nangombe, Ezra Stiles College. The
following is a summary of just one these breakout sessions.
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