This is fairly innovative. It shows how much this university cares about student success. We are really doing a lot that other institutions are not doing, because we focus so much on students.
We're not really sure what happened. There was a fluke where people were signing up for one and not the other. No one was registered for both-so we had to just cancel the class.
Our curriculum has become much more cafeteria-like. In classical times, education was regarded as generally rhetorical. Rhetoric is the unifying force. This is a return to that synthesis of rhetoric and discipline knowledge.
I think you could anticipate this spreading. Writing is best studied under a domain of knowledge. My instinct is that this will pay off for both sides. When you approach math as algorithm, it loses all its beauty. I think that is what is missing in high school math.
This is something that could be a real learning opportunity. It is very complementary.
It will be innovative in a few ways. We have worked a couple of years designing this.
