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  • Check out COURSERANK, a new course evaluations site tailored to Duke launched by Ben Getson, a senator on last year's AA Committee. [Start using CourseRank!] If you have any questions, please email ben.getson@duke.edu.

Accomplishments

  • CourseRank: In the first week of its full use, CourseRank has already had nearly 2000 users register! [Check it out and start using it!]
  • More students on A&S Council Committees: appointed students to more committees on the Arts & Sciences Council, including Courses, Curriculum, and Faculty/Student Interaction.

Current Projects

(Updated November 4, 2009)

These are the current projects that the Academic Affairs Committee and VP are all currently working on. Please email cynthia.chen@duke.edu with any questions or suggestions, and be sure to check out each individual senator's page to find out what they are working on.

  • Increase the Number of Half-Credit Classes: These courses will be designed to increase the amount of diversity in a student's education without more homework. Students expressed the most interest in Economics, MMS, Political Science, and Spanish conversational language courses.
  • Majors' Unions: A new resource website for information about majors' unions on campus, standardizing majors' unions and working on funding.
  • A Domestic Study Abroad Program in Washington, DC
  • Pre-Major Advising: Improving the system and pulling in more faculty. Several members of the committee, including the VP, met with Deans Rasmussen and Todd recently to provide recommendations.
  • Revised Pass/Fail Policy: The policy, proposed by last year's VP, Chelsea Goldstein, is currently being debated in the Arts & Sciences Council.
  • Career Center Initiatives: A potential house course, assessing student interest in various fields and improving the representation of industries at Duke during recruiting.
  • Internships for Credit: Improving the Internship Credit policy to allow students to receive credit more easily for internships, particularly those internships that are unpaid and are not granted unless the student is receiving credit.
  • Reforming and Standardizing Writing 20
  • Promoting Interdisciplinarity Through "Synergy" Courses
  • Syllabus Archive: Maintaining the current archive and discussing ways to improve how to provide syllabi to students.
  • Making Textbooks Cheaper for Students: Advertising the textbook classifieds site available through the Textbook Store, encouraging professors to report to the Textbook Store which books they intend to reuse (thereby allowing the Textbook Store to buy back books at higher prices), and more.
  • LSAT, MCAT, GMAT, GRE Workshops: sessions to educate students about pre-professional and graduate school entrance exams.
  • Duke Community Standard Awareness: an orientation week event about the Honor Code and the Community Standard, review of the Plagiarism Tutorial, and generally increasing awareness among students of what plagiarism is and what the consequences are for plagiarism.

Course Information

Having trouble choosing which classes to take? Check out CourseRank and the Syllabus Archive:

Bookbagging Help

  • The Academic Affairs Tips for Registering on ACES: [Click Here]
  • The OIT Guide to Bookbagging:[Click Here]
  • The OIT Guide to Registration: [Click Here]

If you have any feedback about the registration process or the new ACES in general, please email cynthia.chen@duke.edu.


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