March 13, 2009

Revamped Curriculum at a Vermont College Focuses on Life Skills and Career Goals

By STEVEN BUSHONG

At Champlain College, an education comes in 3-D. No funky glasses required.

The Vermont college has radically revamped its class structure to better prepare students for life beyond the lecture halls. The collegewide program, "Education in 3 Dimensions," centers on three main parts: life-skills workshops, an interdisciplinary core curriculum, and professional courses. Required courses make up all three dimensions, which are rigidly sequenced, and end in a capstone

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