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...light of their historical, social, economic and/or cross-cultural conditions of production and reception.” Detractors may claim that the distinction will be easily—and consistently—blurred. Such nay-sayers should bear in mind however, that this is not the Core we’re talking about; muddling of the sort that has marred the old curriculum quite simply won’t happen in the new. Trust...
...same flexibility from a graduate student TF writing a dissertation on, say, designing the American city or something, is an entirely different matter. Academics are trained in specific disciplines defined by their methodologies, not in the content-oriented subject headings of the proposed new curriculum. The experience of the Core demonstrated that to expect professors to teach “modes of inquiry” was to expect too much. Expecting the new curriculum to keep its cross-disciplinary shape under the stewardship of committed disciplinarian is no less ambitious...
...Core has disintegrated into mush because the faculty and graduate students who offer its constituent courses have lacked the discipline to keep within the confines of its guiding philosophy. The new Core offered by the Task Force, by virtue of its opacity and over-ambitious crossing of disciplinary lines, is on the same all-too-familiar trajectory. Prospective students be warned; it’s only a matter of time before you, too, will be shopping Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding 20, “Designing the American City...
Henrietta Harrison, the professor of the popular core Historical Studies A-13, “China: Traditions and Transformations” responded to the issue by having a teaching fellow (TF) deduct participation points from students caught checking their e-mail in lecture...
...resolve the differences between Anglican conservatives and American Episcopaliansim - which in 2003 made an openly gay man bishop, in contravention of a 1998 Communion statement that only married heterosexuals should have sex, and has refused to swear off gay union ceremonies. The slow one was a new Anglican core covenant to the margins over a period of years. The fast one was an explosive schism of the worldwide communion into halves: the conservative party, led out of Africa, with the majority of members; and a more liberal one in agreement with the Episcopal Church, with most of the money...