Yale-NUS College: A New Community of Learning

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DescriptionThis curricular report, submitted by the inaugural curriculum committee of Yale-NUS College, describes the founding principles of the College's curricula. It focuses on the key pillars of the the academic experience at Yale-NUS, situating aspects of its student assessment, pedagogy, and experiential learning within the context of the liberal arts model, as well as other forms of higher education.CreatorInaugural Curriculum Committee of Yale-NUS CollegeBryan Garsten (Chair)Rajeev Patke (Co-Chair)Charles BailynJane M. JacobsKang Hway ChuanBryan PenpraseDateApril-2013PublisherYale-NUS CollegePages82Place of PublicationSingaporeFormatReportLanguageEnglishChapter1. Foreword
2. Preface
3. Introduction
4. Historical Context: Why Here? Why Now?
5. A Focus on Articulate Communication
6. A Campus Designed for Conversation
7. A Common Curriculum Worth Talking About
8. A Collegiate Approach to the Academic Disciplines
9. Individuality, Exploration, and Choice
10. The Question of Character
11. Student Learning and Pedagogical Experimentation
12. Continuing the Conversation
13. Online Information about the Curriculum
14. The Yale-NUS FacultyArticles1. Liberal arts colleges in the United States
2. The growing interest in liberal arts in Asia
3. The opportunity offered by the Yale-NUS partnership
4. A distinctive kind of conversation
5. Freedom of expression
6. Offering more than “breadth”
7. A faculty that deliberates together about what to teach
8. Challenges we faced in designing our core courses
9. Guiding considerations for a new generation of core courses
10. No to departments, yes to majors
11. Rethinking the majors
12. The special challenges posed by the sciences
13. Electives
14. Minors
15. Senior capstone
16. A cosmopolitan education for rooted and responsible citizenship
17. A liberal ethic of learning: tolerance and civility
18. Beyond “critical thinking”
19. What are students learning?
20. Better ways of teaching
21. The co-curriculumContributorPericles Lewis

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