Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another development rumored to be receiving serious consideration is the abolition or modification of the language requirements. The elementary languages are generally consider to have no place in a college curriculum and a modification of the language requirements. is seen as the way out. Another subject in which the President elect has been interested is the entrance requirements. During the last decade a great deal of experimentation has been carried on in this field at other colleges and it is believed that proposals for alterations in the system of admissions will be carefully considered...
Careful revision of courses on Design and Construction and the addition of four new courses next year have been brought about by a reorganization of the curriculum of the School of Architecture. The changes were made to keep abreast of progress in architecture, and to increase graduates' opportunities for professional employment by offering a broder and more advanced course for future architects...
French 1 and 2 are eloquent substantiations of the charge that elementary language courses have no place in the College curriculum. But language requirements must be met, and some provision must be made for the failings of secondary schools in this department. Separated, these courses have been elementary to the extreme. The logical remedy would be to combine the merits of both, put the new course under intelligent active guidance, and hire able instructors...
...more dogmatism than many legislative programs. The theory of "play, not work" in education, which is most applicable to pre-adolescent children, is shown to be acceptable to the more traditional schools, where there is not as hide-bound an attitude as is usually thought, but where the curriculum of "projects" is often questioned. The ideals of progressive education seem to be as vague and the reforms as necessary as Professor Dewey left them many years ago, but the faults of the system have been largely discovered by now. The dependency of the success of these joyous grammar schools...
...particular selection of courses, it is impossible to advise the Freshman what to take next year. Most Sophomores in the department take Mathematics 2, Physics 1, and either Physics 2a or 3a. The curriculum to be followed, however, largely depends on the preferences of the individual...