Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...also trying to involve students from the start in all of the decision-making at the college; and throughout the summer, students played a part in planning curriculum, administrative processes, and everything else that affects them...
This fall, students at many colleges and universities have gained representation on curriculum committees, advise the president on educational goals or operate nonacademic campus services. At Berkeley, students now sit on 23 committees, including one in the Academic Senate. It is becoming common for students to gain the decisive voice in regulations affecting their social activities and living conditions. Discipline is often handled by student courts...
...rather than the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Until this fall, security clearances were required for some ROTC classes and despite dribbles of reform, the courses still follow standardized formulae promulgated in Washington. ROTC is essentially pre-professional training for the military and thus does not belong in the curriculum of an undergraduate liberal arts program...
...Senior Division Army ROTC curriculum is designed to produce a specific product...," Col. Pell begins, sharply defining a manipulative, mechanistic goal for ROTC courses, hard to reconcile with any definition of a liberal arts education. He explains further that a young man will gain from ROTC "the dedication and skills he must have to be a good Army officer"--again evoking Sears Roebuck management training rather than a college. Twice, in fact, Pell weakens his case by comparing ROTC to other professional disciplines--medicine, law, and business--which Harvard, except for a handful of accounting, engineering, and pre-med courses...
...Prescott's students take a heady curriculum in four areas: anthropology; language and literature; civilizations; systems. The language and literature program includes a study of the cinema as well as courses on the Christian tradition and comparative mythology. The study of systems at Prescott starts with an analysis of logic and mathematics, branches off into astronomy physics, chemistry, psychology and political science. The anthropology department deals with man's relationship to his environment, to his culture, and to himself. It ranges from courses in geography and geology to zoology-all backed up by six weeks of field work...