INQ-271 | Dear Old Roanoke

Full Title: Dear Old Roanoke: A Comparative Examination of the Past, Present, and Future of Roanoke College

Topic Description:

What gives a college its identity? Is it the college’s history and traditions? A college’s curriculum and planning? The success of its members and alumni in academics, sports, business, service, and professions? Or is it a mixture of these elements, in a special and distinctive manner? This course will explore answers to each of these questions in a historical and contemporary study of Roanoke College as a national liberal arts institution of higher learning. The course will focus on this history of the college in particular and the history of higher education in general in the past 170 years. Students will form into groups to analyze issues confronting the college.

Counts as Global? No

Topic Approved: April 2011