Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...panel envisioned suburban-like school districts within the city, each with its own superintendent and a policy-setting board that would have full power to hire and fire personnel, design the curriculum and spend centrally allotted funds. The plan has been approved by Mayor John Lindsay, and will be debated in the next session of the New York legislature, which must change existing state laws if it is to go into effect...
Taught mostly at the graduate level, the programs require students to be as familiar with secular writing as sacred. At the Methodists' Emory University in Atlanta, the first-year curriculum includes a study of drama from Aeschylus to Shakespeare; next spring, the university's celebrated Christian atheist, Thomas Altizer, will lecture on the theological and artistic expression of nihilism, concentrating on Baudelaire, Kazantzakis and Nietzsche...
Repository of Insight. The field of study is so new that there are only about 20 literature and theology Ph.D.s in existence (15 of whom are Chicago graduates). Most are professors in divinity schools or English departments at secular universities. Tom Driver, who heads the L. & T. curriculum at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary, teaches five courses, among them "Doctrines of Man in Modern Drama," and is a well-known freelance drama and film critic; he has written reviews for the Reporter and the Christian Century...
...resourceful enough to discover the program in an obscure corner of Rules Relating to College Studies and to locate a willing Faculty advisor, deserve the benefits of Independent Study; non-honors students are not to be trusted without the regimen of course structure and grades. But since the Harvard curriculum is sprinkled with guts which can be passed on two nights work, the idea that grades effectively keep slackers in line is fanciful...
...Changes in the curriculum of the dental students in his first two (pre-clinical) years, giving a more active role to members of the teaching staff of the Dental School. First and second year curriculum for dental students is now almost identical to that of Medical School students...