Word: curriculum
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Although chartered as a university, the New School has no science labs, no college clubs, no athletic teams. What keeps New Yorkers coming to its three-building, modern "campus" in Greenwich Village is an ever-changing curriculum that is almost as contemporary as a daily newspaper. Its smorgasbord of noncredit classes ranges from "The Art of Singing Folk Songs" to the crassly commercial "What the Editor Wants: Media Placement in Public Relations." In the spring of 1965, the New School ran a course on the Warren Commission findings; this term it has a continuing series of lectures on the Viet...
...machined and polished liberal arts curriculum first developed for the production of ministers, doctors, financial and government people," says President Everett, "is just not applicable in a world that changes so damned fast." Under Everett, former chancellor of the City University of New York, the New School hews to no philosophy except, as he puts it, that "human problems are only going to be solved by the application of highly literate, active intellects...
Finally there is the matter of required curriculum. Out of a total of 40 units, the Wellesley girl has 18 stipulated for her as general requirements before she even considers the courses necessary for her major. These include a two-term course on selected portions of the Bible in the sophomore year and four one-term courses from a category which is composed of astronomy, biology, chemistry, geology, mathematics, physics, and the history of science...
...difficult to write off the year in such simple terms. It is also difficult to argue convincingly that what appears important now will be important five or ten years from now. The stimulus towards curriculum changes may peter out. Problems between Harvard and the Federal government may be smoothed over. The University's planned growth may not be nearly so great--nor carry so many implications--as it now appears...
...studying how to incorporate in the law school curriculum the problems of large-scale movement into cities as these come to the attention of lawyers," Wofford explained...