Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, after 32 lectures from Professor Renfer and visiting chaplains, six theological students of assorted denominations took the final exam. Most of their curriculum had dealt with technical matters, e.g., "Types of Ministry and Duty" on shipboard, with the Air Force, the infantry, in hospitals, and in induction and separation centers. Next semester, with an estimated enrollment of 20, Renfer expects to include training in such skills as pitching a pup tent, finding a water supply, staying healthy while living in the open...
...recommendations of Provost Buck's committee on religion point up a serious lack in the curriculum of this university: the absence of a broad General Education course in the field of modern religion. The fact that religious systems exist in all cultures indicates that they serve an important function to mankind. The study of our own religion is certainly important enough to warrant a course in it; our religion deserves study both as a part of our cultural heritage (as does literature, for instance), and as an area of personal importance to every student...
...Group tutorial should be offered to all sophomores and juniors and to non-honors seniors, not for course credit. Tutorial should in time become an accepted part of the curriculum. It should not, however, be compulsory...
...longer is religion the keystone of the educational arch, but rather one stone among many . . . Our educational system has lost what had been its principle of coherence and its instrument of cohesion . . . The contemporary university curriculum reminds one of nothing so much as a lavish cafeteria, where unnumbered tasty intellectual delicacies are strung along a moving belt for individual selection without benefit of dietary advice or caloric balance...
...prominent holdover from Mr. Durant's Seminary days is a course in Biblical History required of all sophomores. Aside from this the Wellesley curriculum is very similar to that of Harvard, a system on concentration and distribution of courses having been in effect approximately the same length of time as that of the Cambridge institution. Also the immediate post World War II period saw the rise of certain inter-departmental basic courses, roughly parallel to Harvard's General Education series...