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For the last three years (2021–23) I have been director of New College's new general-education curriculum, Chart Your Course, which focuses on student agency while combining disciplinary breadth and skill-building.
Each CYC course at New College teaches and assesses three transdisciplinary skills from a list of 16, key skills for a liberal-arts education:
Civic Knowledge & Engagement
Creative Thinking
Critical Thinking
Ethical Reasoning
Global Learning
Information Literacy
Inquiry & Analysis
Integrative Learning
Intercultural Knowledge
Lifelong Learning
Problem-Solving
Oral Communication
Quantitative Literacy
Reading
Teamwork
Written Communication
Students are then asked to reflect regularly on what skills they're learning and how they anticipate being able to apply skills learned in one class to other classes:
What happened? What did you do? Was it what you expected, or was it different? How did you respond? What did you learn?
So what? What follows from what you’ve learned, and what does it mean for you? How do your experiences relate to course content? How do your experiences connect your academic, professional and/or personal development?
Now what? What are you going to do (differently or the same) this semester as a result of your experiences? How do you think you will apply what you have learned? How will these choices help you as you pursue your goals?
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