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After recently completing his inaugural year as executive dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, Doug Greenberg weighs in on:
...the new signature courses
“The idea is to choose really big subjects, that are not the province of a single discipline and have teams of the best teachers in the School of Arts and Sciences address them,” Greenberg said. “These will be the courses we hope that 20 years from now students look back and say ‘I had the most amazing course, with the most fantastic lecturer, and it changed my way of thinking about the world.’”
...the new curriculum set to take effect in 2011
“The new core curriculum is not the old sort where you choose two classes from column A and three from Column B. The aim is on educational outcomes, on having students leave the university with a set of knowledge and skills - both things are necessary, for successful lives.”
...keeping alumni closely connected while transforming undergraduate education
“We don’t want our alumni to lose contact with the university because their colleges are not here anymore. So when I go out around the country and speak to alumni groups, I tell them that if they came to Rutgers now, they would be in Arts and Sciences. And when they really hear what we’re doing with SAS, they know that this is a good thing.”
...the future of the School of Arts and Sciences
“We need to try to imagine not what SAS is going to be next week, but what it is going to be five years, in 10 years. So over the course of the coming year, we plan to identify not what we think we can do, but what we think in the best of all possible worlds, we would do.”
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