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...supposed purpose of distribution requirements or required curricula is either to ensure all students graduate with a common body of knowledge or to emphasize the “real-world applications” of a liberal arts education. Since our new General Education follows the latter, utility-based model, the classes selected by the transitional committee should tailor themselves to the needs of students...
...curriculum I propose, in contrast to the virtually content-less core curricula at most of our leading universities, including Harvard’s new one and old one, involves 16 semester courses. Only three of the 16 courses—one dealing with American literature, one dealing with English literature, and one dealing with political philosophy—revolve around the reading of classic works...
...happens to be setting up shop.” Malan was optimistic about the prospects of the new addition and said that a change in forum for office hours made sense for the course. “There’s this tendency in academia to introduce technology into curricula simply for the sake of introducing technology. That’s a bad reason.” Malan is taking over the leadership of CS 50 this year from Michael D. Smith, who is now the dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The course is using technology from...
Most of the objectives dealt with the addition of curricula designed to promote “active-learning” and the introduction of electives. Among other things, the King has used the two extra hours to add “Literacy Collaborative,” a program that infuses reading and writing into the broader curriculum, as well as 60 to 90 minutes of “hands-on math” and 30 minutes of daily Mandarin instruction from junior kindergarten onward...
...presence is growing - with little separation from the State. The Moscow City Court and the Prosecutor General's Office maintain Orthodox chapels on their premises. Only the Orthodox clergy are entitled to give ecclesiastic guidance to the military. Some provinces have included Russian Orthodox Culture classes in school curricula with students doing church chores. When Orthodox fundamentalists vandalized an art exhibition at the Moscow Andrei Sakharov Center as "an insult to the main religion of our country," the Moscow Court found the Center managers guilty of insulting the faith, and fined them $3,500 each. The ROC had an opera...