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ID#___________________ Academic Advisor
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Instructions for Sophomores, Juniors and Seniors
Please see the Academic Catalogue 2009-2010, pp. 26-28, for a complete description of the Kalamazoo Curriculum. Continuing students may opt into the new curriculum by
 attending a Curriculum Planning Workshop (offered quarterly)
 completing this worksheet and sending it to the Dean of Advising (pixley@kzoo.edu), who will review and return it, and send a copy to your academic advisor
 continuing to meet regularly with your academic advisor
 completing an application for graduation, indicating that you are choosing the K curriculum, at least two quarters prior to graduation
TWO CURRICULA: REQUIREMENTS COMPARED
REQUIREMENTS THAT HAVE NOT CHANGED
Current and continued
First-Year Seminar
Language proficiency at the 103 or 201 level
Mark if completed and when, OR indicate plans for completion
Major
Senior Individualized Project
One physical education unit
Minors and concentrations (optional)
Requirements of our old curriculum
REQUIREMENTS THAT ARE DIFFERENT
Requirements of the new Kalamazoo Curriculum
Sophomore Seminar* (or two Cultures courses)**
Senior Seminar***
An array of courses of your choice that enhance and support your deepest interests and allow you to explore new terrain
Mark if completed and when, OR indicate plans for completion
Three Cultures courses
Areas of Study (literature, fine arts, creative expression, history; social science; natural science, mathematics, computer science; philosophy, religion) and QR
LACC No specific requirement, but LACC-like events will continue to be offered
*Sophomore seminars consider topics or issues from multiple perspectives, foster effective communication (written and spoken) and cross-cultural inquiry, and prepare students to participate in study abroad and live in an interdependent world. Some Sophomore
Seminars also count as part of a particular major.
** Completion of two cultures courses will satisfy the sophomore seminar requirement.
***Senior seminars are either (1) disciplinary, and thus integrate students' experiences around a particular major, or (2)
interdisciplinary, in which seniors from diverse majors apply their particular training and perspectives to a topic or problem. Senior
Seminars offered within a particular major may also count towards that major’s requirements. For continuing students, faculty are identifying short-term alternatives for the senior seminars in disciplines where such courses do not exist.

PLEASE ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS
REFLECTION: BUILDING MY OWN EDUCATION
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What do I care about most? What are my passions and deepest interests? What do I do well? What courses and subject areas have I found most intriguing or compelling?
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What have I learned about myself since I’ve been at K? Have I changed? If so, how? How have I stayed the same?
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How do the different things I’ve done (inside and outside the classroom) connect?
DEPTH: PRIMARY AREAS OF STUDY
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For Sophomores o What major am I considering? How have I explored possible majors? What courses will help or have already helped me identify my major? What courses might be related to it?
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For Juniors o Why did I choose my major? o What courses have I taken--outside my major--that are related to it and support it? What would I like to take? o If I have a double major, a minor, or a concentration, what am I trying to achieve?
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For Seniors o What have I learned by studying one area (my major, for example) in depth? Where has it led me? What might lie ahead in the future?
BREADTH: EXPERIENCING THE LIBERATING ARTS
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What have I done and what will I do to make my education rigorous?
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What courses have helped me step outside my comfort zone? Why is this worth doing?
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What do I still want to explore? What new knowledge, skills and attitudes might I learn?
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What does breadth look like for me? How have I achieved breadth so far (list courses and activities)?
INTERCULTURAL, INTERNATIONAL, AND GLOBAL LEARNING
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Kalamazoo College offers an array of courses on intercultural, international, and/or global issues. Whether or not
I go on study abroad, how will I develop/have I developed my international awareness and intercultural understanding?
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What have I already experienced and/or studied that has helped me learn more about people of different backgrounds and cultures?
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How can I expand that learning through co-curricular experiences and coursework at K, on- and off-campus?
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For Sophomores and Juniors o Am I going on study abroad? If so, where? If not, how will I expand my cross-cultural skills? Have I completed my language study?
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For Juniors and Seniors: o How did study abroad and/or other cross-cultural experiences—and coming back--affect me? What have
I learned?
THE CAPSTONE
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For Sophomores: What preliminary thoughts do I have about my SIP?
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For Juniors: What plans am I making about my SIP (possible topics, department/s, advisor/s)? What do I want to learn and accomplish?
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For Seniors: What have I learned and accomplished by doing my SIP?
LOOKING AHEAD
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What kinds of things do I envision myself doing in the future?
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What knowledge, attitudes and skills do I want to develop? What do I want to know and be able to do?

MULTI-DIMENSIONAL LEARNING & CO-CURRICULAR PATHWAYS
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What have I already participated in? What have these experiences meant to me?
Activity What did it mean to me? What did I learn and accomplish?
How did this activity connect with and integrate my passions and academic work?
Guilds
Employment
Athletics (collegiate and/or intramural)
Service-learning
Student organizations
Externships & internships
Leadership development
Community building, on- or off- campus
Spiritual/faith development
Volunteer work
Wellness
Sustainability
Peace and justice work
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What would I like to do?
Activity What would I like to learn and accomplish? How might this activity connect with and integrate my passions and academic work?
COURSE PLANNING
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I am considering taking (list the course title and the reason):
WINTER 2010 SPRING 2010
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How might these courses meet my educational goals?
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If the courses I want to take are filled at my registration time, how might I explore the breadth of offerings at K?

SUPPORT & ENGAGEMENT
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How can my advisor and I work best together?
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I am familiar with (Column A) and have used (Column B) the resources of:
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Center for Career and Professional Development
The Departmental Student Advisor (DSA) program
The Counseling Center
The Center for International Programs
The Student Development Office
My Class Dean
The Office of Academic Advising
My professors
Student Activities
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Residential Life
Institute for Service-Learning
Chapel
Center for Peace and Justice Leadership
Student Employment
By completing this worksheet and e-mailing it to the Dean of Advising ( pixley@kzoo.edu
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I confirm that I intend to move to the new K-Curriculum.
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