Word: curriculum
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...date) in which U.S. schools annually send some 10,000 students abroad. Even a small school like Michigan's Kalamazoo College (enrollment: 1,100), for example, sends 90% of its students overseas. Stanford officials, however, prefer the branch concept, arguing that it permits them to shape their own curriculum abroad, eliminates any problems in meshing programs and credits, eases the need for extensive foreign-language instruction. It also permits the U.S. school to pick its own site instead of sending its students to crowded university towns where housing may be scarce and the influx of Americans may already...
...already qualified ground teachers. The pilot-instructors include two Negro teachers (a third of the students are Negro) plus Mrs. Georgia Eidson, an energetic history teacher and former Women's Air Force pilot. With that nucleus, school officials made the course a regular part of the curriculum this year. It includes instruction in aerodynamics, meteorology, flight computers, navigation, radio navigation and FAA regulations. Students get in ten flying hours toward the 40 needed for a license, pay only...
...they will withdraw from day-to-day participation in laboratory and lecture work and will substitute a program of independent study conducted in small groups with cooperation of faculty advisors. Some of the groups plan to follow the normal course schedule fairly closely. But others will develop a new curriculum, hoping to eliminate the faults which they criticize in the current program...
...argument offered by these students goes to the heart of the Medical School's aproach to education; they charge that the rigidity of Harvard's preclinical curriculum and its uncritical over-use of formal teaching methods, especially lectures, stunts intellectual initiative. "We now learn more because we are told to do so than because we are curious," they wrote in a letter to Dean Ebert in December. "It is disappointing to think that our education is based upon the assumption that medical students can learn no more than what they are taught...
Regardless of the validity of the specific criticism -- its substance has been widely challenged -- the proposals for flexibility and independent study represent a serious and constructive experiment, which could provide valuable information to those interested in evaluating the Medical School's curriculum. The students are pledged to take examinations given to students who follow the normal curriculum; but they will use a wide range of techniques -- directed reading; attendance of scheduled laboratories, lectures, and demonstrations; consultation with lecturers and other members of the faculty; and discussion within the groups. This program will provide a needed testing ground for new methods...