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cademic Affairs includes the academic programs, academic policies, special academic offerings and academic support services.
Core Competencies To accomplish its mission and to achieve campus-wide goals, Southern Vermont College addresses four College competencies throughout its curriculum. Through learning within and across disciplines, students completing the curriculum will be able to demonstrate skills in the following areas. Communicate • Communicate in writing • Communicate in speaking • Communicating in rhetorically effective ways Think • Think critically • Think creatively • Think practically and situationally Act • Act to learn • Act to change oneself • Act to effect change in the world Value • Value oneself • Value others • Value professional standards This year, Southern Vermont College will implement its new 4x4 curriculum. Simply stated, most courses will be four (4) credits, and a standard full-time load will be constituted by four (4) of these courses (4x4). The key feature of the new curriculum is the engaged classroom brought about by a progressive pedagogy, called "laboratory learning." What laboratory learning means is that, in every class, there will be co-learners. Professors will facilitate opportunities for students to learn from each other, but everyone in every class will be teaching and learning. For a glimpse at what classes across the SVC curriculum will look like in the laboratory learning format, please go to this link to brief descriptions of some 4x4 courses: http://www.svc.edu/academics/Brief_course_descriptions_for_Fall_2012.pdf.
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