UB rolls out diverse classes to enrich college experience

An article on the front page of the Buffalo News reports on UB Curriculum, UB’s new general education curriculum that changes the way the university educates its undergraduate students, requiring all students, regardless of their majors, to take 12 general education courses over four years. The article notes that UB faculty designed more than 200 new courses and tweaked hundreds of existing ones, making this the biggest curriculum change at UB in at least two decades, and quotes Andrew Stott, vice provost and dean of undergraduate education, who is overseeing the rollout of the new curriculum. “Ultimately what we’re trying to do is develop habits of mind – give people more intellectual creativity and flexibility,” he said. A related article offers a sampler of the new UB seminars.

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