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Fixing College Education: A New Curriculum for the Twenty-first Century
Charles Muscatine
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Description for Fixing College Education: A New Curriculum for the Twenty-first Century
hardcover. Offers a radical design for American college education. This title predicts the roles for students and faculty, redefines educational breadth and depth, and calls for deeper assessment of learning and teaching. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JNKC; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 146 x 17. Weight in Grams: 358.
Since his early days at the University of California, Berkeley, when he was fired for refusing to sign a loyalty oath during the Red Scare, Charles Muscatine has been a dedicated teacher and higher education reformer. Upon his reinstatement at Berkeley, he founded 'Strawberry Creek College', a six-year experiment using full professors and small classes to teach lower-division students. Drawing on this belief in undergraduate teaching, Muscatine's new book now offers a radical new design for American college education. Muscatine begins with the observation that the mediocre undergraduate curriculum offered by most colleges and universities today is based on outdated ... Read more
Since his early days at the University of California, Berkeley, when he was fired for refusing to sign a loyalty oath during the Red Scare, Charles Muscatine has been a dedicated teacher and higher education reformer. Upon his reinstatement at Berkeley, he founded 'Strawberry Creek College', a six-year experiment using full professors and small classes to teach lower-division students. Drawing on this belief in undergraduate teaching, Muscatine's new book now offers a radical new design for American college education. Muscatine begins with the observation that the mediocre undergraduate curriculum offered by most colleges and universities today is based on outdated ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813928159
SKU
V9780813928159
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About Charles Muscatine
Charles Muscatine is Professor of English Emeritus at the University of California at Berkeley, where he taught for forty-three years.
Reviews for Fixing College Education: A New Curriculum for the Twenty-first Century
Fixing College Education is full of cogent, frank, even refreshingly blunt criticism of undergraduate education. Muscatine's passion pervades the volume, and he does not hesitate to criticize the sacred cows of academe in search for improved education of students. - Jerry G. Gaff, Senior Scholar, Association of American Colleges and Universities, Washington, D.C. ""Fixing College Education is a personal statement ... Read more