概述
Serving as the Capstone requirement of CMU's 必要的学习 (General Education) Program, the Maverick Milestone course is a 200-level interdisciplinary, topics-oriented, writing-intensive course designed to help students develop the ability to solve problems and approach ideas using more than one set of intellectual tools.
One mark of an educated person is the ability to recognize that various disciplines approach ideas and problems in different ways. The distribution of courses within the 必要的学习 program ensures that students will construct a matrix of knowledge that fosters a multiplicity of viewpoints for thinking about the world.
在Maverick里程碑课程中, students will construct an academic project using techniques and methodologies from multiple disciplines. Most of the Maverick Milestone sections will be team-taught by two, 甚至三个, faculty from different disciplines. 例如, a Biology professor and a Sociology professor might teach a course on "Pandemics and Society," or a Nursing professor and a Literature professor might team up to teach a course on "Medicine in Literature." The courses may be thematic or more topical, perhaps responding to current events and debates in society.
Details of the 必要的学习 Capstone Requirement
Student must complete the 4 credit hour 必要的学习 Capstone Requirement once they have earned between 45 and 75 credit hours.
ESSL 290 Maverick里程碑
3学期学时
Regardless of the specific topic of the Milestone section enrolled in, students will write a significant amount of polished prose, making the course an important transition between the 必要的学习 curriculum and their upper-division work in the major. Most sections of the Milestone will be team-taught by faculty from different disciplines and will require students to apply knowledge and skills from more than one academic discipline.
基本演讲
一学期学时
As a co-requisite to the Milestone course, students will present the material they encounter in that interdisciplinary environment to their peers from other sections of the Milestone. Essential Speech will provide skills that individual majors can build on in ways appropriate to their disciplines as they move into upper-division courses.
里程碑课程示例
The co-requisite Maverick Milestone and Essential Speech courses were first offered during the Fall 2015 semester. As the 必要的学习 Program matures, the selection of Milestone sections and topics will continue to expand.
Why Require the Maverick Milestone course?
The course is designed to address the following 必要的学习 outcome: "students should be able to construct an academic project using techniques and methodologies from multiple disciplines."
The intellectual skills associated with this outcome are indispensable for students as they enter a world where they will change not just jobs, 但职业生涯, 在他们的一生中有好几次, and in fields that increasingly demand people capable of understanding high volumes and broad varieties of information.
The course will provide an invaluable institutional checkpoint as we try to assess what our students know and can do at the midpoint of their lives here.