Word: curricula
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...speeches Dean David set forth the purposes of the School. He also held conferences with the ruling boards of the colleges in an effort to come to a better understanding in regard to the coordination of the curricula of the Business School and the colleges. Dean David also stopped at various Harvard Clubs of the middle and far west, discussing the work of the Business School and outlining the proposed connection with the colleges of the districts...
...more vocational. Universities now offer courses not merely in law and medicine, but in accountancy, in retail salesmanship, in insurance, and indeed, in almost every department of business activity. Even the less comprehensive college which have not schools of commerce, finance and accounts have in perceptible degree enlarged their curricula, and the general tidal wave which carries thousands into these "practical" university departments sweeps many into them as well...
...subjects. Some of these will be teachers who have already had experience and who see the need of readjustments in their teaching. They return to the University for the study of Education with special emphasis on problems of the organization of knowledge in their respective fields into courses and curricula. This involves the study of aims and principles as well as the study of methods. They seek also the opportunity for further study of the subjects they are teaching, and this is made possible at Harvard by cooperation between the Graduate School of Education and the Faculty of Arts...
...this group study the general problems of the institution in which they are to work; the mental and physical development of adolescents; the characteristics of the secondary-school population; the aims and purposes of the secondary school; the values of the various subjects, and their organization into courses and curricula...
Among other features which will be offered are special curricula for the principals of secondary schools, superintendents and other administrative officers, as well as playground workers and specialists in various fields of distinction. During each half year approximately 20 courses will be given in the department. As the courses offered in the Summer School are practically parallel to those in the Department of Education, a program consisting of these studies may be counted to obtain the degree of Master of Education by teachers holding positions during the remainder of the year...