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News 24 JulyA message from Executive Dean of Health Sciences Professor Suzanne Chambers: Winter has so far been a season of future-thinking and action for the Faculty of Health Sciences.
11 October 2023
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A message from the acting Executive Dean of Theology and Philosophy Associate Professor Richard Colledge: Enhancing the core of our shared undergraduate curriculum.
For around ten years now, our core curriculum has been a distinguishing feature of the ACU undergraduate experience. Over that time, it has gone through various changes. Over the last year, there’s been a lot of work going into assessing its successes, identifying priority areas for improvement, and envisioning ways to respond in consultation with the wider university community.
In addition to the extensive work done on the community engagement aspects of our core curriculum, there has also been much effort going into the core curriculum coursework units (currently represented by the UNCC and PHCC codes). Those efforts will be accentuated over the coming months as we look to propose some exciting enhancements that would be implemented from 2025.
The idea of having a ‘core’ set of studies that are taken by all undergraduate students, is both an ancient ideal and a bold one in the current context of hyper-specialised university degree programs. Indeed, there are some very real and important challenges involved in this endeavour. Yet a feature of many of the world’s finest Catholic universities continues to be the effort to make available to their students broadening studies that are interesting and accessible, and are imbued with key elements of the Catholic tradition of thought; studies that are holistically educative and deeply practical.
As work has progressed over the last year, one of our key tasks has been to clarify our core curriculum’s rationale and aims: to ensure that it remains well-anchored and purposeful even as we work to allow it to thrive in new ways. A few principles have emerged:
I greatly look forward to developments to come over the coming months as we work in close consultation with both our internal and external stakeholders, faculties, directorates, and students themselves, to further refine and craft a revitalised core curriculum of which we can all be very proud.
Stay tuned!
Associate Professor Richard Colledge
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