Word: curricular
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Nancy Rhodes, Brown's associate director of admissions yesterday attributed the increase which continues a trend of several years to general good P R" and student distaste for the curricular requirements gaining new emphasis at many Ivy League colleges including Harvard...
...that the rationale isn't fascinating as such. For of all curricular reform movements launched or proposed over the years, whether at Harvard or in the wider scope of beleagured American school systems. Harvard's Core vision is perhaps the one whose logical and philosophical underpinnings are the least obvious to observers. Though the national press did, as Keller notes, focus massive attention on the event as an educational revolution, academics across the country still express confusion as to what exactly the fuss was about Many thought the proposed array of 90 courses as a "core" of basic knowledge...
...with an alternative distribution formula, specifying a mix of introductory and advanced courses in two of three broad areas, on the grounds that some students might already have a degree of expertise that the Core could not satisfy. Though the formula "appeared to provide just one more degree of curricular flexibility." Keller says, "Rosovsky and his followers were quick to perceive that if the faculty supported a more distribution requirement, no matter how restrictive, then the Core was doomed before it started...
...crushingly clear how inevitable it was that the Core take on its present form, with no mitigating factors, once the dean had determined his philosophy of, as Keller puts it, making students "dilettantes in the best sense." The price of sacrificing all possible alternatives to remain true to a curricular concept has definite cautionary overtones, especially if one compares the blithe generalities of the dean's vision with the face-less, focus-less classes that crowd the Core today...
...Selover, a Divinity School student and founder this year of the Won Wa Do Club, yesterday gave one common explanation for his unusual extra-curricular activity: "I'm studying Chinese religion...and I have a strong interest in East Asia." He added, "I'd heard [Won Wa Do] was a new kind of thing, and I wanted to try it I'm also participating in Tae Kwon...