“There needs to be real help that gets these students through.”ĬU is creating this new online degree program because three members of the Board of Regents challenged them to do so in the fall of 2015.Īt the time, the regents said they wanted to hold a competition to see who could design the best three-year, fully online degree program. “We’re going to have three phases of advising that will lead the student through and that, honestly, is going to cost us some investment up front,” he said. The university would offer initial support, in-progress advising and pre-graduation support, Kuskin said.
He proposed that the university invest some money in advising efforts to help students stay on track. Kuskin acknowledged that completing a 120-credit degree in three years will be challenging for some students. That home campus will also confer their degree. Though students will have access to classes offered by all of CU’s campuses, they will enroll on one home campus. Kuskin hopes to develop those course clusters and foundational classes by September, with a goal of launching the new program in the fall of 2018. Proposed cluster topics include cultural diversity, global studies, environment and sustainability, organizations and leadership and social justice studies. Students will then be able to select from a set of 10 course clusters, which will serve as pathways for their degree. The number of majors available is only limited by students’ imaginations, Kuskin said.Įach student will be required to take three foundational courses - one for each year of their degree program - that will be designed and taught collaboratively by faculty from each of the campuses. “A student might take some courses in philosophy and some courses in criminology and put them together into her own major that lets her think in an out-of-the-box way about, say, penal practices.” “Interdisciplinary studies is essentially a degree that combines majors according to an undergraduate’s desires,” Kuskin said at a recent CU Board of Regents meeting.
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