Word: core
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...Faculty contemplated general education reforms. Now that final Faculty legislation on general eduaction is in sight, the UC should move decisively to bring calendar reform to the forefront of discussion.The UC’s third primary focus should be on improving general education for students stuck with the Core. The latest general education report contains several reforms which can and should be immediately applied to the Core. The most beneficial change would be to to relax the rules by which classes are cross-counted for Core requirements. The Core office should remedy its unreasonable strictness—which the Task...
...been a long, hard struggle, choked full of casualties. The curricular review, in progress since 2002, has devoured with alarming ferocity the various faculty members who have attempted to find a replacement for the outmoded Core Curriculum. It has also managed to outlast both the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Dean and the University president who were its initiators. Talk about staying power...
...kids, developed in large part from input by kids. But it will have to sell the idea that children can handle it to the potential buyers, their parents. "We think kids are smart," said Kajeet's cofounder and CEO Daniel Neal. "Our entire philosophy springs from this one core idea. We want our kids to be agile with technology and we want to help them respond with confidence to what's happening in their world...
It’s no surprise that Ec 10 tops this spring’s enrollment figures, but a historical studies Core on capitalism has ballooned to more than four times its previous size. Ec 10, the popular name for Social Analysis 10, “Principles of Economics,” packs Sanders Theatre this semester with 736 undergraduates, despite a drop-off of more than 200 students from first semester. The course still has more than two times the number of undergraduates registered for the next largest course, Historical Study B-49, “History of American...
...HISTORICAL ILLITERACY’With the new curriculum subdivided according to a different philosophy emphasizing the real-world applications of academics, disciplines that were once isolated are being brought together.As a result, history and economics courses, which are separated into Historical Studies and Social Analysis in the current Core Curriculum, would fit into the same categories in the proposed general education structure.Given the ambiguity regarding history’s place in the new curriculum, Gordon said he plans to introduce an amendment to the report at the next Faculty meeting on March 13. It would require that at least...