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During the past year, universities have begun to attract at new kind of publicity. The most arresting stories to appear in our newspapers have not featured students or professors or even new curricula. They have focused on machines...
...addition, the panel called on colleges to institute more coherent curricula, instead of merely strengthening distribution requirements or adding multi-disciplinary courses. It proposed a minimum required program of study for all students, consisting of nine different categories...
...Riesman adds, "The correct curricula of colleges should consider what their faculties are good at. They should not destroy Shakespeare for students by bad teaching. A required course has to be captivating...
...faculty committee would provide a resource for the development of alternative sections and the presentation of different perspectives on economics. Such a committee could better make choices regarding such important matters as textbooks and essential curricula, while leaving section leaders free to teach. Governance by committee and the Development of a variety of alternative sections will not eliminate the central role of mainstream economic theory in Ec 10. Rather, it will promote the most fundamental aspect of a liberal arts education--critical thinking...
...pace, moreover, was more leisurely than the traditional pre-med program. For example, a one semester course was spread over 15 weeks, a luxury not possible in the typically crammed medical school curricula. In the end, however, the theoretical content covered in the courses was similar to that covered in many of the traditional medical school programs...