Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...abuse of the Reading Period system in the past, and both students and faculty members are guilty, would justify abandoning it altogether, but we hope this does not happen. The idea of Reading Period is sound; its faulty execution is what ruins it. If professors would point their curriculum so as to culminate in two or three weeks of either intensive, high-level study of extant course material or individual study of new material related to the course, Reading Period might in fact do its hypothetical duty. They would have to be conscious of another unpleasantry in human nature...
This sweeping change in the academic curriculum, affecting all students, aims for "less dependence upon teaching" and more "independence in learning," President John S. Dickey said yesterday. The new system will shift the emphasis from conventional textbook and classroom to source work and library study...
...businessmen. Only about one-third of 1 per cent of those in Economics 1 are going to be economists and only about 2-3 per cent of our concentrators. Many of our graduates go into business or accept business posts. But our major contribution is to liberal education. Our curriculum takes these facts into account. Seymour E. Harris, Chairman Department of Economics...
...Committee will consider problems of the freshman year in the morning and the upper class curriculum in the afternoon. The agenda also calls for a meeting at 4 p.m. with the Committee on Educational Policy
Monro said that the Committee would be concerned with both the freshman and upper class curriculum. He suggested that possible areas of discussion would include an appraisal of the course system, the function of reading period, the values of tutorial and general examinations, advanced standing, and various issues of student motivation...