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	Beyer, C.H., Gillmore, G.M., Fisher, A.T. & Ewell, P.T. (2007). Inside the Undergraduate Experience: The University of Washington's Sstudy of Undergraduate Learning. Bolton, MA: Jossey Bass-Anker Publishing Company, Inc. Bean, John C. Engaging Ideas: The Professor's Guide to Integrating Writing, Critical Thinking, and Active Learning in the Classroom. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1996. (The most popular guide for teachers using writing across the curriculum). Delbanco, A. (2008). The college idea. Lapham’s Quarterly, 1, 19-41 Kronman, A. (2007) Education’s End: Why Our Colleges and Universities Have Given Up on the Meaning of Life. New Haven, Conn: Yale University Press Latona, John. “What Do We Mean by ‘Writing Intensive’?” The Composition Chronicle, 4(6), October 1991, 8-9. Levinson, S. (2006). Our Undemocratic Constitution: Where the Constitution Goes Wrong (And How We the People Can Correct It. New York: Oxford University Press. McLeod, Susan and Susan Shirley. “Appendix: National Survey of Writing Across the Curriculum Programs” Strengthening Programs for Writing Across the Curriculum. Ed. Susan H. McLeod. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1988. 103-30. Rowe, J. (November/December, 2008). False readings: How the gross domestic product leads us astray. Columbia Journalism Review, 47(4), 22-24. Susan H. McLeod, Eric Miraglia, Margot Soven, Christopher Thaiss, Eds. WAC for the New Millennium. Illinois: National Council of Teachers of English, 2001. 299-326.(The most thorough one-volume guide for planners of WAC/WID programs.) Thaiss, Chris and Terry Myers Zawacki. Engaged Writers and Dynamic Disciplines: Research on the Academic Writing Life. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2006.(See especially Chapter Three, on assessment methods in departments, and Chapter Four, on stages of student development as writers in disciplines.) Willard, Lee. "Research as an Integrative Experience," Reinvention Center Conference (Nov. 2004): http://www.sunysb.edu/Reinventioncenter/Conference_04/proceedings.htm
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	Center for Studies in Higher Education (2007). General Education in the 21st Century: A report of the University of California Commission on General Education in the 21st century. Berkeley, CA. http://cshe.berkeley.edu/research/gec/. International WAC/WID Mapping Project. Davis, 2008. (12 Aug 2008): University of California. 13 Dec 2008. http://mappingproject.ucdavis.edu "National Writing Project". 2008. (13 Dec 2008).13 Dec 2008 2008. http://nwp.org.(Includes links to NWP philosophy and history critical to development of early WAC/WID programs in U.S. at university level.) The WAC Clearinghouse (1997, 13 Dec 2008). Retrieved 13 Dec 2008, 2008, from http://wac.colostate.edu/ (This multi-feature site, managed by Colorado State’s Mike Palmquist, includes descriptions of many WAC/WID programs and links to websites; full texts of important works in WAC program theory, design, and operation; current and back issues of two established journals in the field; a list of WAC/WID consultants; a new Research Exchange, etc. University Writing Program. Davis, 2008. (12 Aug 2008): University of California. 13 Dec 2008. http://writing.ucdavis.edu (See especially the materials of the Workshop Program (WAC). Writing Across the Curriculum. Fairfax, VA: George Mason University. 13 Dec. 2008. http://wac.gmu.edu (For WID writing guides, the assessment materials, and the section on program history over thirty years). Professor Bingham’s website: http://artscool.cfa.cmu.edu/~bingham. Background, Professor Bingham’s art practice. The Pantheozone: Temple to the Ozone, large scale installation under the Brooklyn bridge for Creative Time’s exhibit, Art in the Anchorage, 1989: http://artscool.cfa.cmu.edu:16080/~bingham/archive/pan_arch.html. Water Rights: A Domestic Arrangement, an outdoor environmental installation at Art Awareness, a residency program in the Catskill Mountains: http://artscool.cfa.cmu.edu:16080/~bingham/archive/water_arch.html. An Urban Semi-Wilderness Area: http://artscool.cfa.cmu.edu:16080/~bingham/archive/urban_arch.html. Nine Mile Run Greenway Project: four year community-based environmental art project through the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon: http://artscool.cfa.cmu.edu:16080/~bingham/archive/nmr_arch.html. Growth Connection 2000, 2002 Advanced SIS: Environmental Sculpture class with Civil and Environmental Consultants, Inc. Succession planting technique using soil retention strategies to begingrowth on a slag heap with a thin soil medium Greening of Purnell Center for the Arts-sustainable green roof proposal: http://artscool.cfa.cmu.edu:16080/~bingham/archive/pur_arch.html. Living Roof on Hamerschlag Hall, Advanced SIS: Environmental Sculpture.Students designed a 4000 sq ft living roof with a green roof consultant and conferred with the campus Green Practices committee and Facilities Management Services. http://artscool.cfa.cmu.edu:16080/~bingham/archive/student_green.html. Solar Decathlon Competition Project: Greenscape, Advanced SIS: EnvironmentalSculpture in conjunction with Architecture design/build studio. A modular,three dimensional, terraced wall and green roof, water retention and irrigation system on a 1200 sq ft house run by solar energy. http://www.talkingproud.us/ScienceSolarDecathlon.html. Most recent Ecoart projects not on website: http://artscool.cfa.cmu.edu:16080/~bingham/archive/student_ecoart.html. http://artscool.cfa.cmu.edu:16080/~bingham/archive/student_stream1.html. http://artscool.cfa.cmu.edu:16080/~bingham/archive/student_shishi1.html. Greening of the Early Undergraduate Education Initiative: http://education.andrew.cmu.edu/environment/The%20Greening%20of%20Early%20Undergraduate%20Education.php List of General Education Requirements at UCLA: http://www.registrar.ucla.edu/GE/ General Education in the 21st Century: A Report of the University of California Commission on General Education: http://cshe.berkeley.edu/publications/docs/GEC-WEB.FINAL.pdf. University of South Carolina International Programs: http://www.sc.sc.edu/ips/ Beyond the Classroom Documentary - Laura Kissel’s Website: http://people.cas.sc.edu/kissel/documentary/BeyondTheClassroom.html University of Rochester Freshman Academic Handbook, Class of 2012: http://www.rochester.edu/College/CCAS/FreshHandbook12.pdf
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	Arizona State University, Bridge Course Requirement http://clas.asu.edu/students/roadmap/degreerequirements/bridge.htm Boston University, College of Arts and Sciences Core Curriculum http://www.bu.edu/core/ College of General Studies Core Curriculum http://www.bu.edu/cgs/about/general.html Case Western Reserve University, SAGES (Seminar Approach to General Education and Scholarship) http://www.cwru.edu/sages/ Duke University, Curriculum 2000 http://www.aas.duke.edu/trinity/t-reqs/curriculum/ Michigan State University, Integrative Studies http://www.ns.msu.edu/cisgs/CISGS/Newsletters/brochure.html Arts and Humanities: http://www.msu.edu/unit/cisah/about.htm General Science: http://www.ns.msu.edu/cisgs/ Social Science: http://www.cis-ss.msu.edu/cis/ New York University, Morse Academic Plan http://www.nyu.edu/cas/map North Carolina State University General Education Requirements http://www.ncsu.edu/provost/academic_programs/ger/ Assessing General Education http://www.ncsu.edu/undergrad_affairs/assessment/files/ger/ger.htm Pennsylvania State University, General Education in the Curriculum http://www.psu.edu/oue/gened/ General Education Requirements: http://www.psu.edu/bulletins/bluebook/gened/ Portland State University, University Studies http://www.ous.pdx.edu/ Princeton University http://www.princeton.edu/pr/catalog/ua/ Stanford University http://www.stanford.edu/dept/undergrad/ger/ SUNY at Albany, Project Renaissance http://www.albany.edu/projren Foundations of Great Ideas http://www.albany.edu/presidential_scholars/current/uni101.htm University of Arizona, University-Wide General Education http://w3.arizona.edu/~uge/gened/index.htm University of California at Los Angeles, Cluster Courses http://www.college.ucla.edu/ge/ The University of Chicago http://www2.college.uchicago.edu/catalog/ University of Delaware, General Education http://www.udel.edu/ugs/gened/ University of Michigan, College of Literature, Science and the Arts, Area Requirements http://www.lsa.umich.edu/lsa/detail/0%2C2034%2C1908%255Farticle%255F1865%2C00.html Global Change Curriculum http://www.globalchange.umich.edu/ University of Missouri, General Education http://gep.ps.missouri.edu University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Office of Undergraduate Curricula http://www.unc.edu/depts/uc/ http://www.unc.edu/curriculumrevision/ University of Texas at Austin, School of Undergraduate Studies http://www.utexas.edu/ugs/core University of Washington, UW Study of Undergraduate Learning http://www.washington.edu/oea/soul.htm University of Wisconsin - Madison, General Education Requirements http://www.ls.wisc.edu/gened/ Other General Education Links: Association of American Colleges and Universities, General Education Initiatives http://www.aacu-edu.org/issues/generaleducation/ JGE: Journal of General Education http://www.psupress.org/journals/jnls_jge.html General Education in the 21st Century: A Report of the University of California Commission on General Education in the 21st Century http://cshe.berkeley.edu/publications/docs/GEC-WEB.FINAL.pdf Next Resources section RC Home \| Contact us \| Join our network \| SUNY Stony Brook Back to top