Questions Instead of Majors: Implementing a Self-Authored Concentration Program

Autor/inn/en	Wonham, Marjorie; Derby-Talbot, Ryan
Titel	Questions Instead of Majors: Implementing a Self-Authored Concentration Program
Quelle	In: Studies in Higher Education, 48 (2023) 4, S.582-594 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Wonham, Marjorie) ORCID (Derby-Talbot, Ryan)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0307-5079
DOI	10.1080/03075079.2022.2151998
Schlagwörter	Undergraduate Students; Majors (Students); Individualized Instruction; Undergraduate Study; Inquiry; Active Learning; Curriculum Design; Foreign Countries; Interdisciplinary Approach; Guided Pathways; Independent Study; Canada + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Individualisierender Unterricht; Grundstudium; Aktives Lernen; Lehrplangestaltung; Ausland; Fächerübergreifender Unterricht; Fächerverbindender Unterricht; Interdisziplinarität; Selbststudium; Kanada
Abstract	The major is a standard undergraduate degree structure in which learners follow largely predetermined course paths with the primary goal of developing content knowledge and skills. Developing the more sophisticated ability to author inquiry is typically deferred to graduate training but can, we believe, be successfully cultivated in undergraduates through a self-authored concentration. This approach flips the conventional order of higher education by establishing self-authorship as the primary goal, from which knowledge and skill acquisition follow, and by placing primary responsibility on students--guided by faculty mentors--to design their course of study. As an extreme form of interdisciplinary inquiry-based learning and of self-designed majors, the self-authored concentration poses a deliberately disorienting dilemma in service of a deliberately developmental degree, preparing graduates for the rapidly changing demands of the future. We describe the implementation, features of success, and trade-offs of one such program, the single degree offering at Quest University Canada. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01