I'm thinking about ongoing and upcoming curriculum revision efforts in our department and thought I'd get started by putting the course descriptions of all of our Fall offerings into a tag cloud--the cloud includes terms that occur ar least eight times in the compile descriptions. Interesting that the most frequently occuring term by far is class, followed by course. Not surprising because many descriptions have a phrase like "This course. . . ." Still, illuminating in some ways that the thought process and engagement terms don't bubble to the top much. Discussion has some weight. Thankfully more than quizzes. Here is the tag cloud

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