campus partner(s)

Thomas Jefferson University

state(s)

PA

amount

$250,000

initiative

Cornerstone: Learning for Living

award date

05.2022

project director

Thomas Schrand; Meriel Tulante

Grant Summary

$250,000 over 24 months to scale up a first-year course, “American Visions,” and a senior capstone course, “Philosophies of the Good Life,” as common bookends of the general education curriculum to be required of all undergraduates. Three coherent pathways through general education distribution requirements, centered on themes such as “Health and Well-being” and “Aesthetics and Material Culture,” will also be developed to encourage course-taking in the humanities and align with the interests of pre-professional students.