Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...evidence of "incoherent judgment," Barzun says, "Even in describing the proposed curriculum, the report seems to be attending to too many things for a clear grasp of its own meaning...
...General Education" courses are the Committee's answer to the educational dilemma which it sees in the contemporary college. Designed for specialists by specialists in an age which demands specialization, too few of the courses now offered in the college curriculum are of use to non-concentrators who get their glimpse of other fields with but one or two course units in each...
While Dean Buck has said that the Report of the General Education Committee, which he headed, must "stand or fall as a unit," the proposals for changing Harvard College's curriculum can be boiled down to the following essence...
Electives satisfying the "General Education" requirement would be chosen from courses now in the curriculum to which would be added new courses designed to fill particular needs...
English A is criticized for being too little "functional to the curriculum. The course emphasizes literary English or writing about English at the expense of integration of the techniques of composition with material studied in general courses. Absorption of the second half of the existing course into the required "General Education" courses, with a demand for frequent themes on the subject matter of the latter, is recommended as a remedy...