Word: curricular
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These pages are Harvard's response to one of the most persistent and controversial curricular debates in recent years. Ever since the early 1970s--when the women's liberation movement spread across the nation--administrators and academicians have debated the legitimacy of women's studies programs. Some scholars have argued that the study of women is a unique entity that should be treated separately from traditional curricula; others contend that it is too integral a part of the standard disciplines to be distilled out. Some universities have created women's studies departments; many have ignored the issue altogether. Harvard...
...surprisingly, John Reed's degree--awarded on schedule in 1910--was non-honors. Only instruction from one teacher of creative writing seriously competed with his extra-curricular pursuits during his entire four years at college. An impromptu discussion and dinner conversation by an unknown professor--who turned out to be William James--afforded him ample party talk...
Needless to say, Kennedy's proposal won't win faculty approval, but his analysis of the Law School is useful: Most proposals for curricular reform won't pass the faculty, Kennedy says, because "many of us have little to show except success at 'rigor,' as measured by grades and law review writing in our student days...
Much of the Michelman Committee's work has been on curricular reform, and Albert M. Sacks, the retiring dean of the Law School, recently pointed to changes in the curriculum as the major innovation of his tenure...
Wilcox, director since the mid-1960's of Harvard's ever-dwindling General Education program, has watched the great curricular reform of the 1940s grind to a finish. Gen Ed was to the 1940s what the Core will be to the 80s. Another educational scheme in a dynastic cycle. Another reform that burst out of the gate and lost it past the clubhouse turn. It's hardly a new story...