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Carleton College One North College Street, Northfield, Minnesota, USA 55057 Founded in 1866, Carleton College is an independent and highly selective liberal arts college with a diverse and exceptionally able student body, a talented faculty whose first priority is teaching, and a continued commitment to the liberal arts. Carleton is a national college enrolling approximately 1,900 students drawn from all 50 states and 27 different countries. A four-year college, Carleton offers the bachelor of arts degree. Its students can choose from 34 major fields of study, as well as numerous special programs, area studies or concentrations. Carleton College occupies more than 900 scenic acres of campus, arboretum, and athletic fields. Located in Northfield, MN, roughly 40 miles south of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Carleton offers access to the cultural advantages of a major metropolitan area while preserving a collegial environment conducive to an intensive academic life.
Carleton College Homepage
The Perlman Center for Learning and Teaching at Carleton
The Carleton Writing Program
The Dean of the College Office at Carleton
The Office of Institutional Research at Carleton
The Office of Off-Campus Studies at Carleton
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Scott Bierman, Dean of the College and Professor of Economics
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Elizabeth Ciner, Associate Dean of the College & Senior Lecturer in English
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Mary Savina, Humphrey Doermann Professor of Liberal Learning, McBride Professor of Geology and Environmental Studies, Coordinator, Perlman Center for Learning and Teaching
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Carol Rutz, Director of the College Writing Program & Lecturer in English
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Jackie Lauer-Glebov, Assistant Director of Institutional Research
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Project Decription At Carleton College it is our hope to implement a plan to discover and articulate how faculty are teaching transferable, cross-cutting skills and literacies. By doing this we expect that faculty will come to better appreciate that no single person need teach all aspects of a broad and deep liberal education in a single trimester. We anticipate that this will reduce workload pressure faculty feel and will allow them to regain time and reallocate their energies. We also hope that by engaging the faculty in these discussions they will become increasingly self-aware of what the faculty means by cross-cutting skills and literacies with a clearer sense of our goals and how to evaluate the effectiveness of curricular elements.
Carleton's original proposal
Carleton's action plan
Carleton's poster for July 2004 meeting
Handout to accompany poster for July 2004 meeting
Cross-Cutting Literacies in the Curriculum
Carleton continues to work toward surfacing what we call cross-cutting literacies in our curriculum. In this presentation, Mary Savina and Scott Bierman explain how our sophomore writing portfolio has become a site for assessing quantitative reasoning as well as writing in the lower division.
Sample Assignment
As an example of the kind of assignment that can incorporate a number of cross-cutting literacies, Carol Rutz offered this research assignment, which includes writing, information literacy, speaking, and quantitative reasoning.
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