What's New in Advising ('08/'09)

(Please click here to read the '07/'08 version of "What's New")

New Program
The Tagaste Project is a new First Year Experience in Learning Communities that links two courses in the fall and two in the spring, taught by the same pair of faculty.  Tagaste students live in a specified residence hall, with other Tagaste students (they can still bring a preferred roommate along) and share an academic interest, a pair of faculty who serve as their academic advisors, and co-curricular events.  This year’s linkages are:

Prophets and Profits: Parallels, Divergences and Conflicts in Theology and Business Studies (Good for Business Studies)

Explore how the experiences of both work and faith are compatible, in fact necessary, to success and fulfillment as human beings. Learn how the critical skills and competencies of your career are shaped by a commitment to civic responsibility and compassionate service.

Fall Courses: 

  • MGT101 Marketing            
  • THE100 The Bible

Spring Courses: 

  • MGT100 Management
  • THE203 Early Church

Faculty Mentors: Arlene DeWitt, Kathleen Fisher

Possible Co-Curricular Events: Dinner with Business Studies alums now working in community service or non-profit organizations; a speaker on the spirituality of work

Identity, Ethnicity, and Language (Needs Intermediate Spanish)

Examine the ways that global migrations are shaping and challenging our notions of who we are as individuals, as local communities, and as citizens of the US and the world. Explore the ways in which writing expresses cultural identities.

Fall Courses:

  • SPA103 Spanish III
  • ENG130 English Composition

Spring Courses:

  • SPA104 Spanish IV
  • LIT140 Introduction to Literature

Faculty Mentors:  Maryanne Leone, Jim Lang

Possible Co-Curricular Events: Hispanic film festival; speaker on Latin American culture

Journey into the Western Experience (Honors Level)

Investigate the origins and development of the ideas and influences that shape your world, from Greek philosophy, through the scientific revolution and the Enlightenment, to the rise of Christianity, its contact with Judaism and Islam, and the founding principles of representative democracy.

Fall Courses:

  • ART/POL150 Art and Politics I
  • HIS116 Western Civilization I

Spring Courses:

  • ART/POL151 Art and Politics II
  • HIS117 Western Civilization II

Faculty Mentors: Barbara Beall-Fofana, Nicholas Opanasets, Lance Lazar 

Possible Co-Curricular Events: Trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NY; visit to the Worcester Art Museum; dinner with faculty

Registration for Tagaste is subject to availability, and membership will be determined after the FINAL orientation session is complete.

New Major
There is no longer a Major in Biology with a Concentration in Biotechnology and Molecular Biology.  Biotech is now its own major, called the Major in Biotechnology and Molecular Biology.

New Concentration
We now have a concentration in Physical and Occupational Therapy, which prepares students for graduate work in PT and OT.  The concentration is paired with an appropriate major, usually but not always Biology, Psychology, Human Services or Rehabilitiation Studies.  The Concentration is 16 courses, some of which may count in the major as well.First Year Students interested in OT or PT should register for CHE131 for the Fall,  BIO160 (in the first year) HRS125 and a Math course at the placement level (MAT114 or MAT117).  Direct these students to Prof. Heather Wilkins, Health Professions Advisor, to plan out the rest of their course of study.

New Minor
We have a new minor in Peace and Conflict Studies. This is an interdisciplinary minor of six courses.

Nothing New in the Core
ART175 Intro to Digital Photography does NOT count as an Art option in the Core.

New Education Option for First Years: There will be one section of EDU201 Schools and Society exclusively for First Years, as a trial course. For students who are certain they want to pursue the Education Concentration, they can list EDU201.

New Courses:

New Names for Old Courses:

Discontinued Program:
The WPI 3:2 Program has been discontinued, and the grandfathering is over.

Courses Not Recently Offered, So Not in Current Catalog:

New Policies:
A student must now earn a C or higher (rather than the prior C-) in a course taken outside the undergraduate day school, in order for it to be accepted for transfer.

For the purposes of counting courses towards the 14-course limit, Management and Accounting courses will no longer be counted as belonging to the same discipline.

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