Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...permanent program, Yale this week sets up a system which will let bright students graduate in three years. The brightest (to be called the Scholars of the House) may be admitted to a new experi ment in which, after two years of a "con trolled curriculum" (i.e., no electives), they will be allowed to branch out in much the manner of graduate students, study whatever they want, earn degrees on the basis of a thesis and a long oral examination...
...addition to this effort to integrate college work, the core curriculum aims at linking undergraduate work with practical affairs. "In our effort to preserve our scholarly detachment," say the Colgate educators, "we sometimes represent too completely the approaches of our academic discipines; we carry over to elementary work the accent of graduate study...
Every Freshman who enters after the inauguration of the core curriculum will be required to take Natural Science for two terms. The course will emphasize "the methods of the broad field of natural science" and will be conducted by a case method similar to that outlined by President Conant in his recent proposal for "science courses for non scientists...
Programs of all Juniors will, under the core curriculum, include a curse in the Arts. "By sharpening the students' immediate perceptions through understanding of and immediate response to the works studied in the fields of architecture, sculpture, painting, photography, music, and literature, the course should," according to its intent, "increase their appetite for personal discovery...
...final course of the core curriculum is in the Liberal Tradition and is compulsory for Seniors. Its aim is to give the graduating class an integration of their studies in the core curriculum and a grasp of the aims and methods of liberal education