Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Medicine has aroused bitter criticism from some faculty members, and its future is not at all certain. Perhaps to stir any debate at all over the curriculum, Robert H. Ebert, dean of the Med School, apparently felt it necessary to skirt the standing faculty Committee on Curriculum and have a totally new group draw, up the report. He asked Dr. Alexander Leaf, a member of the Curriculum Committee, last year to pull together a subcommittee. Leaf's sub-committee produced its report last Spring. Rather than risk the Curriculum Committee's toning it down, Ebert threw the proposals...
Harsh critics of the 23-page report -- there is a significant number -- are wary of just about everything in it. The report sketches a whole new way for the faculty to operate, and professors uneasy about a complete curriculum overhaul call its objectives unrealistic and its plan of action unworkable. Some seem rather offended because the report makes such sweeping recommendations which many fellow faculty members seem to favor...
Miller said that the Divinity School has been making changes in its curriculum for the past decade in recognition of this need, but, he added, greater progress at Harvard is being impeded by lack of financial resources...
...interdepartmental courses -- what the report calls the "core curriculum" -- would in effect form a sort of Gen Ed program for doctors. The core, the report says, would provide each student with "sufficient background and familiarity with each field to know when and how to return for further details when these may be helpful to him in his future work...
...teaching of the Bible, theology, and Christian history must be made meaningful within the context of a secular society, the population explosion, and urbanization, Miller explained yesterday. Fewer but more centralized divinity schools are needed, curriculum changes must be made, and more research carried...