Word: curriculum
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Although Wilcox and his committee now have official jurisdiction over all non-departmental curriculum, Wilcox insists that the teaching men will continue to run General Education. "People think that we'll be going into conclave and coming out with demands for a whole new batch of courses. Well I don't think we could get those courses just by telling the departments that we want them." The committee will be a sounding board for new ideas--a means for organizing and implementing new proposals--rather than a source of command. "I'll be acting as a kind of staff sergeant...
...Faculty has long debated how to fit courses taught by Divinity School, professors into the Arts and Sciences curriculum. Kristor Stendahl, Frothingham Professor of Biblical Studies, has said that one possible solution would be to have all religion courses directed by the Committee on Higher Degrees in the Study of Religion, which now only supervises the Ph.D. program in religions...
...perspective of the urban educator, he said, is often limited by "the myth of the unitary community"--the belief that the city is an organic whole, without important interest group cleavages. Thus, they tend to overlook special needs and impose a single curriculum on the whole city...
...world-conscious religion, as practiced by the Divinity School, has prompted major revisions in the school's Field Work Program, part of the core curriculum. The program originally was an attempt to teach the practical side of the parochial ministry by giving students apprenticeships in local churches. "But we decided in 1961 that it is just as important to train good theologians as it is to train good ministers," Tjord G. Hommes, the program's director, says...
...amendment is defeated, the Faculty will more on to consider the Committee on Educational Policy's proposals for revision in the curriculum. This program would permit a student to fulfill his Gen Ed requirement either by taking a lower-level Gen Ed course, as all students presently must de, or by taking first a lower-level departmental course and then an upper-level Gen Ed course. Not included in the legislation but, according to Edward Wilcox, "the sense of the CEP," is the idea that such a two-step requirement would have to be a sequence of courses, that...