Word: curriculum
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American colleges and universities have trained men for war since 1819, when a former West Pointer went up to Vermont to found a college (now Norwich University) where military instruction would be part of the curriculum. The idea gained popularity. During the Civil War, Congress voted to provide free land for civilian colleges that agreed to offer military instruction to their students. In 1916, this "land-grant" system of military training was transformed into the present-day Reserve Officer Training Corps...
...initial hubbub has died down, and students and Faculty members have agreed to reconsider the City Planning curriculum issues. But the real work is just beginning...
Reform is long overdue in the City Planning Department. Department professors, as well as irate students, realize that the traditional curriculum requirements allow students far too little freedom to experiment or specialize. Because students in the department have widely varying interests and plans, the school should offer course programs with correspondingly varied emphases. But the present rigid system forces all the students into a common mold and leaves no room for experimentation...
...response to this obvious need, the department established a joint Student-Faculty Committee last Fall to look for long range solutions. Two weeks ago, it made its recommendation: a new curriculum, with 12 required courses and 12 electives...
...addition to returning its original proposal to the Council the Student-Faculty Committee also agreed to try to inform the students of existing possibilities for independent study in the Design School curriculum. As of now only three out of 56 students are in the program...