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Last updated: August 2009.
Written by Dr. Toulouse.
"Eloquentia Perfecta" means felicity with written and spoken expression and the ability to make sound arguments.
The new EP requirement
A primary purpose of the Core Curriculum at Fordham is to enable students to go beyond mere proficiency and achieve a level of excellence in the essential skills of literacy. Excellence in the expressive skills of writing and speaking with logical clarity is founded on the arts of reading, listening, observing, thinking, and mastery and thorough understanding of the topic under consideration.
Students must take 4 EP Seminars
After the new Core is implemented in 2009-10, students will be expected to take four EP seminars during their undergraduate career:
- The Freshman Seminar in the Fall of the first year;
- Texts and Contexts in the Spring of the first year;
- A third EP seminar a departmental elective in the second or third year;
- The Values Seminar in the fourth year.
20% of class time in EP Seminars is given over to writing and speaking assignments
Core classes designated as EP seminars will dedicate at least one fifth of class time to student writing and oral expression.
Work on student writing and oral expression might include:
- peer review and editing,
- guided group analysis of student essays,
- in-class work on essay assignments,
- study of discipline-specific writing conventions,
- and oral presentations by individuals and/or groups.
In order to facilitate sustained and detailed attention to student prose, EP seminars will be capped at 20 students.
FURTHER READING
For more detail on the Eloquentia Perfecta
see The Implementation of the New Core by Robert R. Grimes, Brennan O'Donnell & Anne Mannion (PDF).
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