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  Oglethorpe University : Academics : Undergraduate : Core Curriculum
The University’s core curriculum is the clearest expression of this commitment.
As an interdisciplinary and common learning experience, the core curriculum provides for students throughout their academic careers a model for integrating information and gaining knowledge.
The sequencing of the core courses means that all Oglethorpe students take the same core courses at the same point in their college careers, thereby providing an opportunity for students to discuss important ideas and texts both inside and outside the classroom.
www.oglethorpe.edu /academics/undergraduate/core_curriculum   (366 words)

  
 Core Curriculum for Blind and Visually Impaired Students   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
This area of the expanded core curriculum is often referred to as "daily living skills." It consists of all the tasks and functions persons perform, in accordance with their abilities, in order to lead lives as independently as possible.
This expanded core curriculum is the heart of the responsibility of educators serving visually impaired students.
Of equal importance is the acceptance of the expanded core curriculum as being necessary for blind and visually impaired students.
www.tsbvi.edu /Education/corecurric.htm   (3915 words)

  
 Core Curriculum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The core curriculum was originally developed as the main curriculum used by Columbia University's Columbia College.
The Core Curriculum is an example of what was adopted by many educational institutions in the years following its introduction.
It was worried that a curriculum solely based on what was considered by many as western figures would not allow for ethnic diversity and would promote a lack of knowledge and a level of ignorance about other cultures.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Core_Curriculum   (642 words)

  
 Frequently Asked Questions
The "Core Knowledge" movement is an educational reform based on the premise that a grade-by-grade core of common learning is necessary to ensure a sound and fair elementary education.
Core Knowledge is meant to comprise about half of a school's curriculum, thus leaving ample freedom for local requirements and variations.
Although Core Knowledge is designed to be accessible for all children, it is an academically rich curriculum entirely appropriate for gifted children and may be especially useful for children who are not challenged by their school’s curriculum.
www.coreknowledge.org /CK/about/FAQ/FAQ.htm   (3754 words)

  
 Office of the Provost -- The Core Course Survey
The Core Curriculum Survey was developed in the spring of 1997 by the Core Curriculum Committee to help assess general education at MSU-Bozeman.
The Core Curriculum Committee serves as an advisor to the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs.
Consequently the Core was reduced from thirty-six to thirty-two credits, the natural science Core requirement was reduced from nine to eight credits, the Technology and Society Core requirement was eliminated, and the rubric policy was eliminated (previously Core courses had to be taken outside one's major rubric).
www.montana.edu /wwwprov/core/CoreSurvey.html   (8845 words)

  
 Funderstanding - Core Curriculum
In a core curriculum, a predetermined body of skills, knowledge, and abilities is taught to all students.
The core curriculum movement assumes there is an uniform body of knowledge that all students should know.
The core curriculum method easily lends itself to traditional testing based on information recall, as well as the use of conventional letter grades.
www.funderstanding.com /core_curriculum.cfm   (271 words)

  
 Columbia College Academics > Core Curriculum
The Core Curriculum is the cornerstone of a Columbia education.
Central to the intellectual mission of the Core is the goal of providing all Columbia students, regardless of their major or concentration, with wide-ranging perspectives on significant ideas and achievements in literature, philosophy, history, music, art, and science.
The small size of most Core Curriculum classes provides students with the opportunity to develop intellectual relationships with faculty early on in their College career and to participate with them in a shared process of intellectual inquiry.
www.college.columbia.edu /students/academics/core   (262 words)

  
 Core Curriculum - La Salle University > A Christian Brothers University
Offering sustained study in a broad range of disciplines, the core curriculum provides students with an opportunity to build a strong educational foundation for the future.
All courses in the core may be counted towards any minor or major barring exclusions by the academic departments sponsoring the minor or major.
To complete the core requirements, most School of Arts and Sciences majors must complete a maximum of 19 courses, School of Business Administration majors, a maximum of 16 courses, and School of Nursing majors, a maximum of 15 courses.
www.lasalle.edu /academ/core   (184 words)

  
 Core Curriculum for Spiritual Education
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She is very excited because she now has a core group of children who are returning each year, and she is noticing more parent involvement.
Whiting, VT — “As a Core Curriculum for the Spiritual Education of Children spiritual educator the high point of my service is working with the junior youth of my area.
www.core-curriculum.org   (993 words)

  
 ELNEC Core Curriculum
The ELNEC core curriculum has been developed to prepare qualified nurse educators to provide end-of-life education for nursing students and practicing nurses, and to provide resources to facilitate that instruction.
Curriculum and course development occurred during the period February 2000 - January 2001 under the guidance of City of Hope National Medical Center investigators Betty Ferrell, PhD, RN, FAAN and Marcia Grant, DNSc, RN, FAAN.
The core curriculum focuses on a range of areas in end-of-life (EOL) care reflecting AACN's publication in 1998 of Peaceful Death: Recommended Competencies and Curricular Guidelines for End-of-Life Nursing Care.
www.aacn.nche.edu /elnec/curriculum.htm   (933 words)

  
 CTK - Ministries
The Core Curriculum is an ongoing series of five classes that help you understand your church and take personal ownership in its mission.
It's our intent to create a core of fully committed disciples who are all "on the same page" when it comes to their faith in God and the church's goals and vision.
Core Curriculum starts by letting you explore your church, its history, what we believe and why we do the things we do.
www.ctkbellingham.com /ministries/core_curriculum.htm   (342 words)

  
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The Core Curriculum is designed to give all graduating students the opportunity to acquire a general knowledge of study areas that have traditionally been regarded as basic to a university education.
“The objective of the study of the natural sciences component of a core curriculum is to enable the student to understand, construct, and evaluate relationships in the natural sciences, and to enable the student to understand the bases for building and testing theories.
The objective of the study of the technology and applied science component of a core curriculum is to enable the student to understand how profoundly scientific and technological developments affect society and the environment.
www.depts.ttu.edu /officialpublications/catalog/AcademicsCore.html   (972 words)

  
 College for Texans - Getting - Texas Core Curriculum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The "Core Curriculum" is defined as "...the curriculum in the liberal arts, humanities, sciences, and political, social, and cultural history, that all undergraduates of a public institution of higher education [college or university] are required to complete before receiving an associate or baccalaureate degree."
In any major for which there is no Coordinating Board approved transfer curriculum, no institution shall be required to accept in transfer more lower-division course credit in the major applicable to a baccalaureate degree than the institution allows their non-transfer students in that major.
A university may deny the transfer of credit in courses with a grade of "D" as applicable to the student's field of study courses, core curriculum courses, or major if it denies credit in those same courses with a grade of "D" to its native students.
www.collegefortexans.com /getting/Core.cfm   (391 words)

  
 Core Curriculum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The core is composed of 45 credit hours.Four courses will be taken in learning community format and the other courses will be required core courses and/or core electives.
Each core course will include one of the competencies as a primary competency and two or more of the competencies as secondary competencies.
It is designed to challenge students intellectually, build an appreciation for the core curriculum, initiate acquisition of essential competencies, introduce institutional and academic support services, and foster a sense of community throughout the campus.
www.daemen.edu /academics/catalog/core_curriculum.html   (1880 words)

  
 Pace University - Dyson College of Arts and Sciences - University Core Curriculum
Effective with the entering class of Fall 2003, Pace University instituted a new Core Curriculum that includes such innovations as learning communities, writing enhanced courses, and civic engagement.
In your Core courses you will develop abilities that are essential to success in college study and in careers.
As a result, you will be prepared to become a lifelong learner as you respond to the inevitable changes and challenges of your professional and personal life.
appserv.pace.edu /execute/page.cfm?doc_id=5203   (496 words)

  
 History 30: Canadian Studies Curriculum Guide - The Basis for Curriculum Reform in social Studies and History
Core Curriculum also provides for Locally-Determined Options to meet needs at the local level and the Adaptive Dimension which provides opportunities for teachers to individualize instruction.
The seven required areas of study within the Core Curriculum are language arts, mathematics, science, social studies, health education, arts education, and physical education.
It is important that the Saskatchewan curriculum reflects the variety of roles and the wide range of behaviours and attitudes available to all members of our society.
www.sasked.gov.sk.ca /docs/history30/his30theb.html   (1972 words)

  
 Core Curriculum :: Fairleigh Dickinson University
The second and third Core courses are taken in the sophomore year, and the fourth in the first semester of the junior year.
This sequence of core courses is required of all students entering the university in fall 2001 or thereafter.
Finally, CORE3009 University Core D-The American Experience: The Quest for Freedom, the last course in the sequence, asks students to reflect on what it means to be living in the United States in a global age.
view.fdu.edu /default.aspx?id=12   (865 words)

  
 Tilman Grammes: Core Curriculum: Strategies for searching for a lesson model in social and civic education, and its ...
A rare but only explorative example in the field of civics is given by Gudmundsdottir in her Harvard doctoral dissertation (1988, see Gudmundsdottir 1990) in which she studied the thinking and performance of four teachers of social studies.
The core idea of the curriculum is that humans are shown in a scientific-discovering attitude and appropriate "thinking habits" are trained by the students.
Renovating the core curriculum of civics will afford to change more than 10% into lesson models (this margin is proposed by Berg cap.
www.jsse.org /2004-1/core_curriculum_grammes.htm   (10108 words)

  
 ACMQ > Core Curriculum
This core curriculum is the basis from which the educational programs sponsored by ACMQ are derived.
Consequently the character and definition of the core curriculum is evolving continuously and will be updated on at least a yearly basis.
This complete core curriculum will give the health professional the specialized education necessary to succeed in passing the American Board of Medical Quality certifying examination.
www.acmq.org /curriculum/index.cfm   (139 words)

  
 Core Curriculum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The Core Curriculum is revised and updated on an annual basis and forms the outline of the AAHIVM Medicine Self-Directed Study Guide.
The original Core Curriculum, completed in 2001, was first revised in late 2002.
The Core Curriculum faculty convened again in late 2003 for the second annual revision.
www.aahivm.org /curriculum.html   (271 words)

  
 Core Knowledge Curriculum
The "Core Knowledge" movement is an educational reform based on the premise that a grade-by-grade core of common learning is necessary to ensure a sound and fair elementary education.
Hirsch has argued that, for the sake of academic excellence, greater fairness, and higher literacy, early schooling should provide a solid, specific, shared core curriculum in order to help children establish strong foundations of knowledge.
One goal of the Core Knowledge Foundation is to provide all children, regardless of background, with the shared knowledge they need to be included in our national literate culture.
www.phs.mrpk.k12.ca.us /core_knowledge_curriculum.htm   (650 words)

  
 Core 40 InfoCenter
Core 40 is Indiana's recommended high school curriculum for all students.
The Indiana Core 40 Scholars Initiative is part of a state and national effort designed to better prepare students for success in higher education and the workforce through more rigorous academics in high school.
In 2001, Indiana was one of five states (along with Kentucky, Massachusetts, Nevada, and Texas) selected to participate in the American Diploma Project, a national initiative created to ensure high school graduation standards and assessments across the nation accurately reflect the knowledge and skills that colleges and businesses really require of high school graduates.
ideanet.doe.state.in.us /core40/welcome.html   (216 words)

  
 Core Curriculum
The core curriculum is divided into six skill areas and the Critical Reading, Thinking and Writing Examination (CWRTE).
General education, called the Core Curriculum at Thomas University, helps educate you to be a professional.
The Core Curriculum is divided into five skill areas.
www.thomasu.edu /corecurr.htm   (544 words)

  
 corecurr
In 1997, the 75th Legislature took an important step toward improving transfer by passing legislation calling for the development of an easily transferable core curriculum.
This legislation guarantees that any part of the core curriculum passed by a student at a public institution of higher education in Texas can be transferred to any other public college or university in the state.
The course selected must be historical, appreciative, or theoretical in nature; it may not be applied or performance.These core curriculum requirements may not be selected from the student's major field of study.
www.tarleton.edu /~admissions/corecurr.htm   (223 words)

  
 USOE Library Media - Core Curriculum
The primary purpose of the school library media program and this curriculum is to empower students to be effective users of ideas and information in all formats in a constantly changing learning environment.
Through the proficient use of skills and content learned in the Library Media Core Curriculum, students will be able to grow with the changes that technology brings to their lives.
The responsibility for achieving the purpose of the school library media curriculum resides in the collaborative efforts of the school library media teacher staff, classroom teacher, student, support staff, administrators, board of education, and communities.
www.usoe.k12.ut.us /curr/library/core.html   (294 words)

  
 Millsaps College - Core Curriculum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
We call these courses our "core curriculum" because they represent the heart of a liberal education.
Whatever your career goals, this curriculum will start you on the path to becoming a truly educated person.
This is the question which the Millsaps faculty considered when they began the redesign of the curriculum in 1990.
www.millsaps.edu /corecurr/curriculum.shtml   (235 words)

  
 Core Curriculum
The core curriculum is designed to help fulfill these objectives throughout your undergraduate program.
All students in undergraduate programs are required to complete the university's core curriculum.
Learn more about the core, and explore the core requirements.
www.unr.edu /core-curriculum   (75 words)

  
 Registrar: CORE CURRICULUM
The SBOE Core requirements are described in the General Catalog Part 2, in the section entitled General Education Requirements for Transfer Students.
For a course to count toward any of the general education core requirements, the course must be an approved core course for the area prior to completion of the course.
Core Discovery courses and the cluster courses may also be international courses as well as humanities or social science courses.
www.students.uidaho.edu /default.aspx?pid=19580   (2072 words)

  
 Core Knowledge Curriculum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Brevard County, Florida school that serves K-8 provides a staff listing, curriculum, news, and an explanation of core knowledge.
Core Knowledge is the common ground for uncommon success.
Peach Hill is proud to be the only school in Ventura County to offer Core Knowledge Curriculum.
www.curriculumforfree.com /core-knowledge-curriculum.html   (170 words)

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