Word: cores
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Slakey feels the highly-structured St. John's program provides a common intellectual life at the school which Harvard's more diversified Core Curriculum does...
...opinion [Harvard's Core] is not a core at all. A true core implies that somebody has decided that there are certain things that everybody should read, and it could provide a common intellectual life," Slakey says. "You have distribution requirements. It is not a core. To call it a core is a misnomer...
...University of Chicago has recently revised it's Common Core Curriculum, which like Harvard stresses modes of inquiry as opposed to bodies of knowledge. However, Chicago's program is much more structured...
Students must take one specially-designed Core course in the humanities, one in the social sciences, one in civilization studies, two in the sciences, a year or more of a foreign language, at least two quarters beyond precalculus in math, and one course in art or music, says Nancy M.C.G. O'Connor, associate dean of students for the college...
Stephen J. Gould is Professor of Geology and the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology, as well as an avid baseball fan. He teaches the popular Core course, Science B-16 "The History of the Earth and of Life...