Word: approaches
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Many professors said this approach disadvantages those in the humanities who have the least exposure...
...guide also tells preceptors how to approach assignments and how to phrase essay questions so that students know what is expected of them, defining a clear administrative and academic structure for Expos which every preceptor is expected to follow...
...offense showed signs of diversification, which meant that Murphy may have acquired the personnel for a more wide-open approach...
Others warned that such a liberal approach would lead to a system of pure distribution requirements and the demise of the Core, a debate that intensified when Professor of English and Comparative Literature James Engell proposed adding courses not taught at an introductory level into the Core curriculum...
Undergraduates are also expected to revere an ideological canon; so many classes begin with a professor intoning that the course will expose students to the "great thinkers" of a particular field. This intellectual approach would not be quite so distressing if students were also exposed to more nontraditional ideologies or exhorted to critique the "great thinkers." For example, in many courses dealing with international relations, Harvard offers little critique of American patriotism or nationalism, and issues such as America's neo-imperialism and often brutal treatment of Third World nations are not even acknowledged. Many of these courses, with their...