Curriculum by Design: Innovation and the Liberal Arts Core - Hardcover

by Mary Thomas Crane (Editor), David Quigley (Editor), Andy Boynton (Editor)

This book tells the story of how a team of colleagues at Boston College took an unusual approach (working with a design consultancy) to renewing their core and in the process energized administrators, faculty, and students to view liberal arts education as an ongoing process of innovation. It aims to provide insight into what they did and why they did it and to provide a candid account of what has worked and what has not worked. Although all institutions are different, they believe their experiences can provide guidance to others who want to change their general education curriculum or who are being asked to teach core or general education courses in new ways.

Author Biography

Mary Crane (Edited By)
Mary Thomas Crane is the Thomas F. Rattigan Professor of English and Director of the Institute for the Liberal Arts at Boston College. She is the author of books and articles on early modern English literature and culture, including Shakespeare's Brain: Reading with Cognitive Theory and Losing Touch with Nature: Literature and the New Science in Sixteenth-Century England.