Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard could provide an alternative by building the leave of absence into the college curriculum. It could establish a program of independent study away from campus, which might be called the "academic semester...
Moreover, the effects of abolishing the requirement would go beyond the curriculum at Harvard. American secondary school systems in recent years have given increasing priority to foreign language instruction, thanks in large part to increasing strictness of college-level requirements. Were colleges to lower this standard, many school systems now accelerating or instituting more comprehensive programs would abandon such attempts. The results of such a move would be regrettable, to say the least...
They must now work with the "Upward Bound" staff to develop the "core curriculum" of reading skills, mathematics and social studies that they will begin to teach during the summer...
...will probably stick with it until he s an advisor to Presidents. But such combinations of temperment and luck are unusual compared to the frequent odysseys students take, say, from Chemistry to History and Science to Soc Rel and back to History. Happily, Harvard's curriculum permits lots of elbow room to move about...
...tutorial is just one aspect of a major overhaul in Biology planned for next year. The Department announced last Fall that it was expanding its concentration requirements and expanding its curriculum at an estimated cost of $150,000. Hopkins said there was no connection between these changes and the tutorial except perhaps a common origin in the "general atmosphere of change and improvement" which seems to be pervading the department...