Russell A. Hunt
Department of English
St. Thomas University
Iguanas in First Year:
A Thumbnail History
of The Aquinas Program
A presentation for the
Purdy Crawford Teaching Centre's Teaching Day
Mount Allison University
31 August 2005
A brief chronology
1990-2 Exploring the general dissatisfaction with first year curriculum
Inkshedding and publishing the faculty views
The
Choices
conference
1992-3 Senate ac hoc committee on the first year curriculum prepares
a report
1993-4 Implementation and planning
1994-5 First sections of Aquinas offered:
Truth in Society
,
Technology and Social Change
,
Gender and Society
Some source materials available on the Web
The original Senate report and proposal:
http://www.stu.ca/aquinas/senate.htm
List of sections offered 1994-2000:
http://www.stu.ca/aquinas/aqinfo.htm
The 1995 report on the Truth in Society section of the program:
/aqreport/report.htm
The 2001 "self-study" of Truth in Society for the external review committee:
http://www.stu.ca/aquinas/report/
Information on the "Occasions" module:
http://people.stu.ca/~seeing/occasion.htm