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Western committee to offer recommendations for CAS
Caitlin Varley
Issue date: 10/16/07 Section: Campus
The committee in charge of formulating the new Western College Program for Miami University will be making recommendations to the dean of the College of Arts of Science in December or January. In the meantime, it will be hosting various speakers and public sessions to help the committee formulate the report.
The Western College Program was elected in March to be moved into the College of Arts and Science and will be undergoing some reinventions, according to Chris Myers, professor of zoology.
Myers is co-chair of the committee for the new Western College Program. He said that no dates or events have been set at this point in terms of speakers and forums.
The first students will enter the new Western College Program in fall 2009 if everything goes as planned, according to Myers.
Committee member Chris Wolfe said now there are Western majors living alongside non-Western majors in Peabody Hall, and they will be until the last Western College Program class graduates in 2010. But these students living there now are part of the Course in Common Living-Learning Community, a new program where students take classes with the other students they live with.
According to Andrew Beckett, assistant dean of students, the Course in Common Living-Learning Community is much more scaled down than the former Western College Program's living communities.
"The Courses in Common idea is to simply get students enrolled in three courses together during their first semester and live together so they're more likely to engage (with) one another outside of class about what they're learning inside the classroom," Beckett said.
Most of the courses for the Courses in Common Living-Learning Community are Miami Plan courses that many first-year students would probably already take, according to Beckett.
The Courses in Common Living-Learning Community is also in place in Symmes, Morris and Dennison halls.
According to Myers, the Western College Program will be one of the topics at the approaching meeting of the Consortium for Innovative Environments in Learning.
The Western College Program was elected in March to be moved into the College of Arts and Science and will be undergoing some reinventions, according to Chris Myers, professor of zoology.
Myers is co-chair of the committee for the new Western College Program. He said that no dates or events have been set at this point in terms of speakers and forums.
The first students will enter the new Western College Program in fall 2009 if everything goes as planned, according to Myers.
Committee member Chris Wolfe said now there are Western majors living alongside non-Western majors in Peabody Hall, and they will be until the last Western College Program class graduates in 2010. But these students living there now are part of the Course in Common Living-Learning Community, a new program where students take classes with the other students they live with.
According to Andrew Beckett, assistant dean of students, the Course in Common Living-Learning Community is much more scaled down than the former Western College Program's living communities.
"The Courses in Common idea is to simply get students enrolled in three courses together during their first semester and live together so they're more likely to engage (with) one another outside of class about what they're learning inside the classroom," Beckett said.
Most of the courses for the Courses in Common Living-Learning Community are Miami Plan courses that many first-year students would probably already take, according to Beckett.
The Courses in Common Living-Learning Community is also in place in Symmes, Morris and Dennison halls.
According to Myers, the Western College Program will be one of the topics at the approaching meeting of the Consortium for Innovative Environments in Learning.
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