The Johnston Center focuses on interdisciplinary education, in which students design the curriculum for their personal program of study.
[1] Town and gown relations became further strained when McCoy hired Jeanne Friedman, an alleged Communist, as a faculty member, after her arrest for two felonies at Stanford.
Johnston College lost support, and became a financial burden on the university, though it continued to operate as an autonomous unit for approximately 10 years.
Breadth means studying a broad array of subjects and fields (math, science, literature, religion, etc.).
Traditional CAS students fulfill their breadth requirements by completing courses in the Liberal Arts Foundation (LAF).
The committee reads the narrative before the meeting and asks the student questions about what they want to study and why and gives them ideas on how to increase their breadth and depth and gives them extra options to consider.
Self-Evaluations are to be written at the end of the course and they should explain what the student studied, what they learned and how well they accomplished what they contracted to do.
Johnston students receive written evaluations from their professors instead of letter (A-F) or numerical (4.0-0.0) grades.
Johnston students are also encouraged, typically as part of finalizing their graduate contract, to teach or co-teach, a course that best exemplifies their accumulated knowledge base.
While not a requirement, the communal nature of peer based classroom experiences is often seen as a senior capstone project, with a faculty adviser contributing to the intended syllabus.
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