Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hobbit Holes. The loosely structured curriculum centers around month-long seminars on subjects that are selected as much by the students as by the staff. Youthful imagination is given free reign. In a seminar on sex and psychology, students thought it would be fitting to attend one session in the nude, although only one girl felt emancipated enough to do so. To study "aggression," the kids took to the woods, pounced from trees, acted out the roles of belligerent animals. After reading J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, they dug Hobbit holes, then crawled into them...
...contemporary social problems. Bok sees a need for the Law School to draw more heavily upon the skills of other departments within the university, then apply their combined knowledge to such issues as racial discrimination, aid to the poor and labor relations. Similarly, Stendahl feels that the Divinity School curriculum should reflect more of the church's concern with the eradication of social ills. By coincidence, Bok and Stendahl are good personal friends and have a common interest in things Swedish: Bok's wife is the daughter of Sweden's great sociologist, Gunnar Myrdal...
...said yesterday that he views such internal school problems as Faculty development and the nature of legal education as his future primary areas of concern. He is currently chairman of the Continuing Committee on Legal Education, the Law School's curriculum committee...
Under his guidance last year, the school's curriculum committee successfully proposed making all second-year courses elective. In 1967, he headed a private foundation task force studying the impact of law schools on world affairs...
...should begin serious discussion of that idea as soon as possible. Of the proposals for increasing flexibility in the curriculum, the expansion of Independent Study holds the most promise. It would affect more students, and it is administratively the least cumbersome. Most important, it would encourage students to think about planning their own education and assure them that the University will allow them a maximum of freedom in doing...