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By: Laura Behling
Is Randy Bass right? Is the traditional course dead and it just doesn’t know it? Have we really entered the “post-course era,” a time where the bounded, traditional course, the defining item of our institutions and their curricula, is no longer the site of high-impact teaching and learning practices? Is the formal curriculum still at the center of our institution? And if it is, should it be?
Given all the practices we have worked to incorporate into our students’ experiences because of their increasingly proven positive impact on student learning—global education, undergraduate research, and experiential learning, for example—why, Bass asked, do we fund, hire, tenure, and promote as if the formal curriculum is the most important thing we do?
