The Wharton School’s undergraduate curriculum will soon be coming under review.
“We are at a very preliminary stage,” said Lori Rosenkopf, vice dean and director of the Wharton Undergraduate Division, in an interview with The Daily Pennsylvanian . The first step, she said, is to create a review committee composed of faculty and “other stakeholders.” Rosenkopf first announced the intent to review the curriculum at the most recent faculty meeting.
With no clear pre-set goal for the multi-year review, it is uncertain what a modernized Wharton curriculum would look like. Rosenkopf said that it’s hard to determine whether or not the review process will yield more flexibility in course requirements, but she pointed to the recent MBA curriculum overhaul as a potential indicator of the direction the review could go. After a several-year review process of its own, the changes to Wharton’s MBA curriculum were announced in December 2010 and implemented throughout 2011 and 2012.
“Who can know at this point what exactly [the undergraduate curriculum changes] will turn out to be? We’re reviewing,” Rosenkopf said.
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