Commentary On - "The Exploratory Year: A New Approach to the Four Year Experience at Whittier College"

Authors

Eugene Wine

Abstract

I read with interest Michael McBride's article on the exploratory year at Whittier College. While I am sure that Whittier is satisfied with it and that it contains a number of innovative ideas, such as the "initial module" in various disciplines, I want to speak to the three assumptions upon which Professor McBride and his colleagues rejected any common interdisciplinary general education course for Whittier. I do so because the assumptions are so widely held and because Professor McBride states them so succinctly. I also speak to them as an admitted partisan of a common transdisciplinary general education core course ("Learner's Viewpoint," Perspectives, v. 7, no. 2, Fall 1975).

Recommended Citation

Wine, Eugene (1977) "Commentary On - "The Exploratory Year: A New Approach to the Four Year Experience at Whittier College"," Perspectives (1969-1979): Vol. 9: No. 2, Article 6.
Available at: https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/perspectives/vol9/iss2/6