Word: core
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other Negroes (not entirely true: though the Negro cops were used initially for undercover work in Negro areas, the integrated squad cars patrol white as well as Negro neighborhoods). Still, one retired steelworker has not altered his opinion: "The police department here is rotten to the core...
...flexibility to the curriculum, the report urges a reduction in the amount of factual information and memorization pressed upon the student, and a greater emphasis on elective courses. The report recommends the teaching of a "core curriculum" which would be required of all students and would consist of material that all future physicians must learn. In addition, students would spend a large part of their time on elective courses...
...subcommittee suggests several methods of teaching both core and elective courses, but the most desirable would present the core in blocks of time that would alternate with blocks of time reserved for elective courses. The report suggests that the academic year be divided into blocks of 20, 15, and 10 weeks, with the first and third devoted to the core, and the second to the electives. By having the second block correspond with the second semester in the rest of the University it will be possible for Med students to take courses in other Faculties, and similarly for students...
...opposition would substitute interdepartmental teaching for the present system which gives each department absolute control over the courses it teaches. The report recommends the establishment of three councils in the Biological Sciences, Behavioral and Social Sciences, and Clinical Sciences. These three councils would be responsible together for teaching the core curriculum. Each would be expected to provide students with an integrated course, drawing on the facilities of the departments it oversees...
...constructive, positive approach to a situation where other approaches don't seem to have worked. On the other hand, nationalism, for all its constructive principles of self-determination and self-defense, draws most of its energy from hostility, at least in its appeal to the hard-core ghetto youth. They are the ones who are conscious of the extreme social and psychological gap between what they are and what they are "supposed" to be in order to "make it" in this society. They are the ones that grow up in a world of soul, pot, and poor schools, only...