Word: cores
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Shattuck Professor of Government, winces before answering: "You know, all the biggies: crime, war, revolution, sex." He admits it all sounds somewhat overreaching and "a little apocalyptic," but believes he and his co-instructor, Richard J. Herrnstein, professor of Psychology, can keep everything under control with guidance from the Core report...
This year they plan only minor revisions, unrelated to the Core requirements. Wilson explains that his course already fits the Core. Following the Core guidelines' dictates that Social Analysis courses be organized around a central theme, Wilson's course will ask, Why does a certain person commit a crime...
...Social Analysis, the Core guidelines also ask professors to "test and illuminate" these formal theories with empirical data. Wilson again is in step with the Core here. For example, with genetics he will teach his students how to decode the genetic contribution and then observe complexities that arise in attempting to separate genetics and environment...
Finally, the Core report asks that the Social Analysis offerings "suggest the value questions or options that are implicit in the analysis." Wilson believes that this mandate to search for the values under theories is one of the major strengths of the Core, because it forces professors to focus their courses on "the philosophical implications, not just the facts...
...Some people can handle reading or just audio-lingual," Dinklage says. "When we had translation classes only a couple dozen students a year couldn't handle them, and they were the hard-core dyslexics. With the audiolingual classes, we encounter many more students having difficulty and processing audio inputs." Dinklage says that when audiolingual courses gave many students more difficulty, several administrators suggested that they take Latin or Greek. "But the Classics Department revolted against having forced conscripts in their classes," he adds...