Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...really stultifying thing," a professor remarked last week, "for students to go to Harvard Medical School for four years. They can't make any decisions at all about what courses to take. We put the whole goddamned bunch through the same curriculum. And it just doesn't make sense...
...asks for the first major Med School curriculum change since the Flaxner report was released. It suggests cutting the workload, offering many new courses, and beginning small-group teaching on a large scale. For the first time, students could choose a number of courses for themselves...
According to its director, the Kennedy Institute made the decision not to have Secretary McNamara debate the issues of the Vietnam war. An insight into the kind of reasoning behind that decision is Professor Neustadt's analogy" It's like saying to me that I should change the curriculum or the subject matter of my courses because students don't think it makes sense." (Crimson, Nov.8) How ridiculous that students have a say in the learning experience! Is this the kind of student-teacher partnership in free inquiry that Prof. Neustadt seeks to experiment with at the Kennedy Institute...
...something must be wrong with the teaching. To help freshmen adjust to the competition, Caltech now issues only "pass" or "fail" grades the first year. M.I.T., tired of the student refrain that "Tech is hell," has similarly loosened its freshman and sophomore course load, broken up its long-standard curriculum. "In the past, if a fellow was too short we stretched him, and if he was too long we shrank him-now we try to mold the system around the class," says Physics Professor George Valley...
...speaker cited three minor curriculum reforms in the last ten years and said that none of them had worked out as originally intended because they were based on incorrect premises or because they were not properly implemented...