{"id":11543,"date":"2013-10-23T11:55:24","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T16:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bryantriangle.wpengine.com\/?p=11543"},"modified":"2022-11-08T04:37:34","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T09:37:34","slug":"required-freshmen-courses-change-over-the-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bryantriangle.com\/required-freshmen-courses-change-over-the-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Required freshman courses change over the years"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sophomore Lexi Cunningham leads COL100 small group \/ Photo by Michael Whitlock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By Cameron Brock
\nStaff Writer<\/em><\/p>\n

For two years in a row, Bryan has required freshmen to take COL100 along with the freshman CT101 during their first semester.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is an entry level student-discipleship program. It is a freshman\u2019s first exposure to the culture of Bryan College,\u201d said Jonathan Doran, director of counseling and soul care.<\/p>\n

CT101 is part of a CLF program that began in 2004 as an addition to the chapel program.<\/p>\n

\u201cBefore the CLF, Chapel was four days each week with Thursdays being a day for students to do something with their PCI organization,\u201d said Dr. Matt Benson, vice president of spiritual formation.<\/p>\n

\u201cCLF courses began as 1-3 credit hour electives, which took the place of the Tuesday chapel, and were originally comprised of just four courses. Now the CLF courses have expanded to 16-20 courses and the Tuesday and Thursday time slot of 11 a.m.-noon is still free for everyone,\u201d Benson said.<\/p>\n

CT101 is a good way for both current students at Bryan to get involved and new students to be interactive with the Bryan community, he added.<\/p>\n

\u201cCT101 offers a way for students to make disciples. It is challenging students to be change agents at the college, changing the college\u2019s culture, \u201c said Doran.<\/p>\n

Keri-Lynn Paulson, Bryan Journey coordinator, was unable to comment on the course due to being busy with on-going SACS review.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is neat to be able to get to know the freshmen,\u201d said sophomore Kristin Hall, a student leader with the COL100 course. \u201cThe general attitude of the class is not great. Many people think they don\u2019t need to know or already know,\u201d said Hall.<\/p>\n

Complaints on the necessity of both courses have been apparent. Some students feel that both classes are about common sense things and a waste of time.<\/p>\n

\u201cTaking it last year, there were things I knew and did not know. There are always things people know and they do not know. If I did not think that the information was useful, I would not be a leader,\u201d said Hall.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have tried to work really hard on the leaders. They are not getting credits,\u201d said Doran, regarding CT101. \u201cIt is about getting back to students, returning students becoming mentors, passing that on. We have all been freshmen and to have someone older to connect with is huge in growing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Cameron Brock Staff Writer For two years in a row, Bryan has required freshmen to take COL100 along with the freshman CT101 during their first semester. \u201cIt is an entry level student-discipleship program. It is a freshman\u2019s first exposure to the culture of Bryan College,\u201d said Jonathan Doran, director of counseling and soul care. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4686],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bryantriangle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11543"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bryantriangle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bryantriangle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bryantriangle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bryantriangle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bryantriangle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16225,"href":"https:\/\/www.bryantriangle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11543\/revisions\/16225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bryantriangle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bryantriangle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bryantriangle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}