Word: coursework
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Reisinger Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures William M. Todd III, who will become dean of undergraduate education next month, says he believes that students today have opportunities to produce higher quality coursework...
...Kishlansky says he hesitates to cut down on reading that he feels is important to the coursework because some students may be discouraged by an unusually long reading list...
...unit tests; just me and my books. It was glorious. In the morning, I'd tackle the Industrial Revolution. In the afternoon, World War I. And in the evening, that memoir by Orwell. Sounds absurd--but by the time my exams rolled around, I was thoroughly steeped in the coursework, spouting facts out every orifice, composing essays on the way to breakfast...
Further, the current Core system heavily penalizes those who switch concentrations. A student who starts out as a History concentrator, takes two departmental history courses and then switches to English must go back and take courses in Historical Studies A and B, repeating coursework in the very area she has already taken the most courses in, all the while eating into his or her already scarce electives...
...cite as their first and foremost motivation the opportunity to discuss their areas of specialty with a large general audience. Teaching in the Core allows professors both to exchange ideas with students from all backgrounds and to excite students about fields in which they might never otherwise have considered coursework and concentration. Since, as we have discussed, there will be no mass student exodus, this most important motivation for faculty to teach in the Core will remain...