Word: curricular
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...Social Dialogue” is the only class to focus on jazz. The course was offered through the Core rather than the Music department.Both Everett and Schachter, as well as Noah L. Nathan ’09, the student manager of the Monday Jazz Band, believe that greater curricular offerings could benefit the jazz culture at Harvard. Everett says that incorporating jazz into the curriculum could help expose the music to non-performers, while Schachter says he believes that many musicians would be interested in engaging with jazz academically if the opportunity were available. Nathan notes that Columbia...
...Most troubling about this decision is its timing and its lack of transparency. The decision was announced well after the application deadline, rendering applicants’ time, energy, and money moot. Almost all of the 1,308 rejected applicants were full-time college students balancing full academic and extra-curricular lives while going through the college application process a second time. Although the Admissions Office’s letter to the applicants recognizes this concern (and they plan to refund the application fee) it was in poor form to announce this decision after the application deadline. The reason for eliminating...
...Undoubtedly, in their curricular lives, Cambridge students lack a great deal of the precious freedom we enjoy at Harvard. Students study a single discipline, within which they follow a more narrowly-structured path that consists of units with dull names like “English Literature and Its Contexts, 1300-1550,” “1500-1700” and then “1688-1847.” Within each of these units, known as “papers,” a number of lecture series covers the spectrum of major topics and authors. There...
...outsiders comprehend the scope of the additional demands of varsity athletics in the Ivy League as compared to other extra-curricular activities—the early morning lift sessions, the entire weekends devoted to far-flung tournaments—especially in an environment primarily focused on academics. Jeffrey H. Orleans was one of those few. As the executive director of the Ivy League athletic conference, Orleans was not merely well meaning in his wariness of the potential encroachment of athletics into university priorities—most notably his opposition to participation in the national football postseason?...
...knowledge that our civilization has acquired over the centuries. That we have a canon and classics—although their content may be disputed—testifies to the existence, if often overlooked, of this traditional purpose. English majors read Shakespeare and not Rowling for a reason: if final curricular decisions descended to students, we should not be surprised to see radical mayhem ensue. And then even the prestige of the Harvard name might not suffice in concealing the vapid content of college education.Hopefully, the new “Q” stipulations represent merely what they have been advertised...