CRITERIA FOR REVIEWS OF DEPARTMENTS

1. What do you see as the main educational goals of the major? How well are these being met?
2. What changes have been made in departmental programs since the last review? How successful have they been?
3. Are the range, balance and sequence of the curriculum reasonable?
4. Are departmental offerings sufficiently comprehensive?
5. Is the program overly uniform or homogeneous either in its topic, its methods, or its cultural perspectives?
6. How well does the department relate its responsibilities to its majors with its responsibilities for the general educational program of the College? What are the goals for non-majors taking courses in this department? Are they being met? Are intermediate and upper-level courses accessible to non-majors?
7. Do students get sufficient opportunity to practice the discipline?
8. Is there a requirement for research, i.e., for truly independent work as part of the program for the major? How is the senior integrative exercise working?
9. Do students acquire adequate training in necessary library or laboratory skills? in reading, writing, and speaking?
10. What are the relationships of the department to other programs and departments within and outside the College? Is the department contributing as much as it should and as appropriately as it might?
11. How does the department seem to relate to the profession, to the practice of the discipline elsewhere?