Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Salzedo Harp Colony, in Camden, Maine, where Harpist Carlos Salzedo teaches his technique to 38 men and women in an idyllic setting. Part of the curriculum: costume and deportment so that the performers may properly grace the stage when they play in symphony orchestras...
Headed by Dean (of Commerce) Lawrence Lockley, a six-man team of professors worked out the curriculum. They avoided specialized courses in business practices, concentrated on broad social problems. Students attended classes from 8:30 to 4 each day in subjects ranging from child labor to civil rights to Communism. They held mock business conferences, practiced public speaking...
...good analysis of the curriculum advocated by Dewey's followers, Author Kuhn quoted the opinion of British Socialist Harold Laski. Commenting on the educational theories of Sociologist Harold Rugg and other progressive educators at Columbia in the early 1930s, Laski said: "Stripped of its carefully neutral phrases, the report is an educational program for a socialist America. It could be implemented in a society only where socialism was the accepted way of life; for it is a direct criticism of the ideas that have shaped capitalistic America...
Even before the famed Harvard Report (TIME, Aug. 13, 1945), Hancher was busy remodeling his curriculum, slashing away the hodgepodge of vocational courses in favor of a broad and solid liberal arts program ("What our cultural life needs today is more general practitioners"). He strengthened Iowa's flourishing school of fine arts, started a library where undergraduates for the first time could browse at will. Though he never neglected his budget (he tripled his appropriation to more than $10,000,000), or his plant (he established a full-fledged college of nursing, built a communications center, a hospital-school...
This past term the Department experimented with a uniform tutorial curriculum and it probably will be continued next fall for sophomores because "you can be sure that people will read certain important books in their sophomore year." Junior sessions will be arranged around different elective topics...