From rhmacd at wm.edu  Thu Aug 28 12:15:11 2008
From: rhmacd at wm.edu (Heather Macdonald)
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:15:11 -0400
Subject: [Geodepts] AGU Session - Undergraduate Geoscience Programs:
 Defining and Assessing the Curriculum
Message-ID: <7.0.0.16.2.20080828130519.03749420@wm.edu>

Greetings,

We encourage you to submit an abstract to Session ED17 - 
Undergraduate Geoscience Programs: Defining and Assessing the Curriculum.

Geoscience departments now offer a variety of BA and BS programs 
meeting a diversity of goals. This session will showcase the variety 
of curriculum models that have been developed and the assessments 
that are being used to measure their success.

Presentations might include one or more of the following:
-  a description of your departments undergraduate curriculum with a 
rationale for the choices you have made and the results to date
-  strategies for curricular and program assessment
- curricular options for general education/entry-level courses and 
some analysis as to how they are meeting the needs of the students
-  the goals and expected student outcomes for undergraduate 
geoscience (geology, meteorology, marine science, earth science) majors
- the range of curricular options for your students (e.g., tracks for 
earth science teachers, pre-engineering, etc) and measures of success
- other aspects of undergraduate geoscience programs: defining and 
assessing the curriculum

NOTE: You can be a first author on an abstract submitted to a science 
session as well as one submitted to an education session!

The deadline for submissions is Sept 10.
Program webpage - with links to abstract instructions and submissions
http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm08/index.php/Program/HomePage

Please forward to others who might be interested in this session.

Cathy Manduca
Heather Macdonald
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Heather Macdonald
Chancellor Professor of Geology
College of William and Mary
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