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ERIC Number: ED165638
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1978
Pages: 39
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An Academic Review Using Comparative Student Evaluations of Selected Humanities Departments at Berkeley.
Koon, Jeff, Comp.
Upper division undergraduate students at the University of California at Berkeley were surveyed to obtain evaluations of selected humanities departments. Of 1,472 questionnaires mailed out, 798 were returned. The questionnaire dealt with such matters as general education requirements, the quality of lower division education, extent of student contact with faculty, advising, coursework, overall student satisfaction and impact of the educational process, and students' views on various educational and university policy questions. Questions about curricula concerned the structure of the major, coverage of content, interpretation of content, class size, scheduling, competition, workload, grading, and testing. Questions about the faculty concerned their ethnicity and sex, informal relations with students, and the faculty's receptivity to males, females, whites, and minorities. A large majority of the students agreed that their program should facilitate undergraduate organization by including students on most committees, providing office space, and by similar types of inclusion. Lectures and coursework in most of the majors were evaluated as being interesting and challenging by very large majorities, but faculty receptivity to student input on course structure and content was not very high. Information and advising staff were seen as "generally quite helpful." Recommendations and information on demographic characteristics of respondents are presented. (SW)
Publication Type: Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: California Univ., Berkeley.
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