Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Actually, the University of Michigan is only one of several campuses that have taken the plunge. Last month Dartmouth announced that it would revamp its curriculum to make students rely more than ever before upon their own reading (TIME, March 25). A few days later, Amherst answered that it would try out an experimental reading course "designed to permit upperclassmen to read widely in a special field of interest, with no supervision." Last year Marquette started an "optional class privilege" (i.e., unlimited cuts) program for top students, and this year Williams began putting its better boys in special small seminars...
...program which reflects the increased relation between the theory of language, and fields such as mathematics and social relations will become part of the undergraduate curriculum next fall, Joshua Whatmough, chairman of the Department of Linguistics, announced yesterday...
...authors entertain the notion that traditional subject matter has any validity, they give scarcely a hint of it. They begin by outlining the "scope" of the curriculum in terms of nine "major functions of living"-"Practicing American Citizenship, Using the Tools of Communication, Developing Economic Competence, Improving Family Living, Protecting Life and Health, Building Human Relationships, Enjoying Wholesome Leisure, Satisfying Spiritual and Aesthetic Needs, and Meeting Vocational Responsibilities...
...there is much in the curriculum and organization of the department that might be improved. Quite rightly viewing mastery of the classical languages as essential, the department gives a series of half courses of supposedly ascending difficulty in various authors. Class discussion is quite broad, but examinations for the most part depend on the spewing out of prepared translations with an occasional cursory essay thrown in, and papers are almost unknown. Something beyond this should be expected of students theoretically beyond the elementary level. Analysis of text alone, however worthy as a discipline, leaves a good deal to be desired...
...English Department will undertake a complete re-evaluation of the undergraduate curriculum next fall, according to Walter J. Bate '39, professor of English and Chairman of the Department...