{"id":1017,"date":"2019-11-08T15:50:28","date_gmt":"2019-11-08T15:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artsci.case.edu\/fridaylunch\/?p=1017"},"modified":"2024-06-07T15:51:42","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T15:51:42","slug":"reforming-general-education-what-should-all-college-students-know-in-the-21st-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsci.case.edu\/fridaylunch\/2019\/11\/08\/reforming-general-education-what-should-all-college-students-know-in-the-21st-century\/","title":{"rendered":"Reforming General Education: What Should All College Students Know in the 21st Century?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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Peter Shulman, Ph.D. – Associate Professor of History<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
Friday November 8, 2019
\n12:30-1:30 p.m.
\nDampeer Room
\nKelvin Smith Library<\/strong><\/span>*<\/strong><\/span>
\nCase Western Reserve University<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Dear Colleagues:<\/p>\n

Through much of the 19th century, college curricula were typically standard: all students taking more or less the same courses that university leaders deemed worth knowing.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Beginning towards the end of that century, American colleges increasingly replaced this fixed system with electives and majors, carving out a smaller space for common requirements. Institutions focused on technical education in the sciences and engineering developed their own versions of this system, which held as the norm through the 20th century and beyond.
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\nSo what should all students today learn in common?<\/strong><\/p>\n

What required courses or subjects, if any, should organize undergraduate curricula? Do we encourage breadth or depth? Lectures or experiences? Large classes or small? The answers to these questions will reflect the purposes we have for college education this century: career development? The cultivation of character? Civic responsibility? They might also reflect economic and social pressures on the university, and who gets to make these decisions.<\/p>\n

Professor Shulman has been participating in the ongoing process at CWRU towards introducing \u2013 for the first time \u2013 a GER common to all undergraduates.<\/span><\/p>\n

All best regards,
\nJoe White
\nLuxenberg Family Professor of Public Policy and Director, Center for Policy Studies<\/span><\/p>\n

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About Our Guest<\/span><\/h3>\n

Dr. Peter Shulman<\/strong>\u00a0studies technology, science, and American politics in the 19th and 20th centuries, with special interests in the history of energy, environmental history, communication and transportation, the history of intelligence, and the history of American foreign relations. He teaches courses in the history of technology, energy and the environment, historical methods, and contemporary history. His current book project is a history of ideas about intelligence in twentieth century America.<\/p>\n

Prof. Shulman currently serves as the Director of Undergraduate Studies for the Department of History, certifying major and minor declaration forms and reviewing requests for transfer and study abroad credit.<\/span><\/p>\n

Where We Meet<\/span><\/h3>\n

The Friday Public Affairs Lunch convenes each Friday when classes are in session, from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. Our programs are open to all and no registration is required. We usually meet in the Dampeer Room of Kelvin Smith Library.<\/span><\/p>\n

* Kelvin Smith Library requires all entrants to show identification when entering the building, unless they have a university i.d. that they can magnetically scan. We are sorry if that seems like a hassle, but it has been Library policy for a while in response to security concerns. Please do not complain to the library staff at the entrance, who are just doing their jobs.<\/span><\/p>\n

Parking Possibilities<\/span><\/h3>\n

The most convenient parking is the lot underneath Severance Hall. We regret that it is not free. From that lot there is an elevator up to street level (labeled as for the Thwing Center); it is less than 50 yards from that exit to the library entrance. You can get from the Severance garage to the library without going outside. Near the entry gates – just to the right if you were driving out – there is a door into a corridor. Walk down the corridor and there will be another door. Beyond that door you’ll find the entrance to an elevator which goes up to an entrance right inside the doors to Kelvin Smith Library.<\/span><\/p>\n

Schedule of Friday Lunch Upcoming Topics and Speakers:<\/strong><\/p>\n

November 15: Will We Ever Have Paris? The U.S. and the International Politics of Climate Change.<\/strong>\u00a0With\u00a0Matthew Hodgetts<\/strong>, Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science.<\/p>\n

November 22: The (New?) Israeli Government.<\/strong>\u00a0With\u00a0Peter J. Haas<\/strong>, Abba Hillel Silver Professor Emeritus of Jewish Studies.<\/p>\n

November 29: Thanksgiving break<\/strong><\/p>\n

December 6: Papers Please: Challenging Citizenship in the United States.<\/strong>\u00a0With\u00a0Cassandra Burke Robertson<\/strong>, John Deaver Drinko \u2013 Baker Hostetler Professor of Law and Director, Center for Professional Ethics. <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n

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If you would like to reply, submit items for inclusion, or not receive this weekly e-mail please send a notice to:<\/span>\u00a0padg@case.edu<\/u><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Upcoming Events<\/span><\/h2>\n

Fake News in the Post-Truth Era: A Professional Panel<\/span><\/p>\n

A discussion with Vickie Walton-James, senior editor at NPR, Jim Sheeler, the Shirley Wormser Professor of Journalism and winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing, Katherine Lavelle, the Ellen and Dixon Long Professor in World Affairs and a permanent member of the Council of Foreign Affairs, and Girma Parris, visiting assistant professor in the Department of Political Science, Thursday November 7, 7:00-9:00 p.m., Linsalata Foster-Castele Great Hall, Linsalata Alumni Center, 11310 Juniper Road, Cleveland, Ohio 44106.<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0Click here to register for this event<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Global Ethical Leaders Society, the student organization affiliated with the Inamori Center for Ethics and Excellence, will host a professional panel and Q&A session on the role of journalism and media in today\u2019s political and cultural climate.<\/p>\n

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Assigning Protection: Can Refugee Rights and State Preferences be Reconciled?<\/span><\/p>\n

A discussion with James C. Hathaway, Law Professor and Director of the Program in Refugee and Asylum Law, University of Michigan School of Law, Monday November 11, 12:00-1:00 p.m., Moot Courtroom (A59), 11075 East Blvd., Cleveland, Ohio 44106.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The theoretically global responsibility to protect refugees is today heavily skewed, with just ten countries \u2013 predominantly very poor \u2013 hosting more than half of the world\u2019s refugee population. Refugee protection has moreover become tantamount to warehousing for most refugees, with roughly half of the world\u2019s refugees stuck in \u201cprotracted refugee situations\u201d for decades with their lives on hold.<\/p>\n

Professor Hathaway\u2019s lecture argues that both concerns \u2013 the unprincipled allocation of responsibility based on accidents of geography and the desperate need for greater attention to resettlement as a core protection response \u2013 cry out for a global, managed system to protect refugees.<\/p>\n

James C. Hathaway, the James E. and Sarah A. Degan Professor of Law, is a leading authority on international refugee law whose work is regularly cited by the most senior courts of the common law world. He is the founding director of Michigan Law’s Program in Refugee and Asylum Law and the Distinguished Visiting Professor of International Refugee Law at the University of Amsterdam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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\nPublic Affairs Discussion Group<\/strong><\/p>\n

Reforming General Education: What Should All College Students Know in the 21st Century?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Peter Shulman, Ph.D. – Associate Professor of History<\/strong><\/p>\n

Friday November 8, 2019
\n12:30-1:30 p.m.
\nDampeer Room
\nKelvin Smith Library<\/strong>*<\/strong>
\nCase Western Reserve University<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dear Colleagues:<\/p>\n

Through much of the 19th century, college curricula were typically standard: all students taking more or less the same courses that university leaders deemed worth knowing.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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