Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...curriculum: history taught from a worldwide (not a national) view; current events focused on the nearby U.N.; science and art, stressing the way both spread across borders; a course in U.S. "institutions, ideals and culture"; modern languages (including Russian, Chinese). Foreign students, who will be coached in English, will help teach their tongues...
Still another concern is the development of new fields in the School's curriculum. To change with the times, Dean Sperry feels that study should include social sciences and psychology as related to religion...
...main the hypothetical nature of the College "experiment" has been outgrown, and General Education is now regarded with few exceptions as a good thing. Admittedly, details must be worked out, and it will be several years before an established curriculum will finally be adopted. However, the college has recognized the main educational problem of the times and has undertaken a solution which it is prepared to go along with as far as it can. An important point, which the Faculty Report recognized, lies in the simple fact that higher education alone cannot settle the present educational crisis, for General Education...
David C. Poskanzer; Student Activities Center Committee (vice chairman); Student Finance Committee; Curriculum and Tenure Committee; Extra-Curricular Activities Committee of Student Council...
...confine the teaching of religion to separate 'religious courses' tends toward . . . splitting off of religion from the rest of life. . . . [Religious education] is not something to be added on to the school curriculum, but rather something to be integrated with it"-in existing classes on history, sociology, psychology, economics, philosophy, literature, music, the fine arts...