Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Martin emphasized that the Commission "does not want to impose a standard college preparatory curriculum on the U.S. high school...
Unique in its field, the new building is as notable as the choice of architect. It will fill an outstanding gap in the present curriculum, alleviating the almost total neglect of the non-verbal creative processes in the College...
After visiting the universities at Kiev and Moscow, Bergson finds them "still centering their economic education on Marx." The curriculum is primarily ideological, and tends to train secondary school teachers rather than economic planners. Partly as a result of this, Bergson maintains that "planning continues to be technically on a primitive plane...
Aside from the lecture requirement, there is an "exploratory" course now that must be taken in freshman year. Its similarity to General Education requirements indicates that Sarah Lawrence has surrendered some of the radicalism of which it is so proud. A student's curriculum is planned on an individual basis by the student herself and an advisor, known as a "don." It is this catering to individual needs that forms the core of the Sarah Lawrence philosophy. The don, whose chief function is academic guidance, also serves as a sympathetic ear for all the student's problems, though their psychiatric...
...glance at the Sarah Lawrence handbook reveals a wealth of official committees and organizations in addition to the Student Council and the usual extracurricular clubs. An adviser-advisee committee, a curriculum committee, and a scholarship committee seem to provide ample justification for the claim that Sarah Lawrence students contribute to policies which at other schools remain the exclusive province of the administration...