Curricular Goals

To ensure that students use technology throughout their education, TAC targets development in three directions.

• We support the development of basic-level IT skills in general education courses. When fully implemented, all our undergraduates will have a good foundation of shared IT skills.

• We support incorporation of more advanced IT skills in courses required for the majors. We help departments articulate IT goals specific to their disciplines and fund development of assignments, resources, or courses to help achieve them.

• TAC supports a number of other initiatives such as special projects at the Center for New History and Media that enrich the environment for learning through technology.
  

TAC has especially encouraged departments to examine the use of technology in their curricula as a whole and to develop departmental plans for technology. The plans will address the basic technology skills which all students should be expected to master as well as discipline-specific ones necessary for work in the major. The spread of IT skills through the curriculum is displayed in a series of IT skills grids.