Word: curriculum
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Associate Professor Packard recently revealed the inadequacy of the Harvard speech curriculum before a speech conference, as reported in the April 14th CRIMSON. An examination of our status quo in speech is in order. Five speech courses are available now--three in public speaking, one in dramatic interpretation, and another in oral interpretation, and another in oral interpretation of literature. If we assume these are properly taught, two questions are left. Are there other aspects of speech for which courses are needed? Are there enough classes to handle all the students who need speech training? I believe that both questions...
Packard has formulated the reasons for the University's lack of interest in an extensive speech curriculum and plans to present these reasons to the Administration for official comment sometime next week...
...only permanent way to keep tutorial sessions, full, however, is to make them choice plums of the curriculum. This job belongs mainly to the tutors. But according to the CRIMSON poll, over half of those dissatisfied with the program named their tutor as the reason. He dominated the discussion, they claimed, and too often parcelled out assignments without consulting his tutees. That was bad, but when the tutor made his special field the subject of group study, tutorial became unbearable for those with different interests...
...curriculum based on the classics will seek to remedy that defect. "The emphasis," says Bruce M. Bigelow, Brown's vice-president, "will be on analyzing, not on memorizing...
...announcement of the reorganization of Brown's curriculum came after the report of a faculty committee headed by Bigelow. Study of the problem was begun in 1946 under a $250,000 grant from the Carnegie Corporation...