Minerva, an unusual new university, has a fascinating systematic curriculum design. Hard to excerpt, but a few snippets here from mitpress.mit.edu/books/building
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How does that differentiate from a liberal arts approach to a university?
(Years ago my husband and I spent a long drive really unpacking what’s meant when BA’s talk about ‘critical thinking skills’. That cross application but reminds me of what we settled on at the end.)
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There’s a lengthy analysis in the book, but roughly the claim is that the liberal arts curriculum *tries* to achieve this as a mission-level goal but various structural forces prevent that goal from being translated into practice, mostly because it’s not approached systematically