My layout for an existentialist MCLA would be as follows:
No majors are to be declared until a student has received two years of education. The first year, the students take a variety of classes and seminars that cover many of the school’s offerings. The next year, the students choose one or two subjects from the previous year they liked most, continue to study those, and take even more of a variety of courses. This goes on for one semester. The next semester, if the student wants to change the class they like from one from the previous year to one they studied first semester, they can. They will still take the last few variety courses and then declare a major based on what studies of the past two years they liked most.
Junior year would be focused on what the student likes the most. The student would take advanced level classes in these subjects, along with a philosophy class and a class that is very different from the students major. For example, as a writing major, I would take some 200 and 300 level writing courses, a philosophy course, and another course in something like physics or chemistry. It will strengthen the students’ weaknesses and broaden their mind.
Senior year, the student would be the year of freedom for the students. They would get to utilize all they have learned in the subject they chose as their major and do things like write a thesis paper or carry out an independent study. They could do whatever they like, as long as it reflects on what they have learned for the past three years of their lives.
What do you think about this?
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
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