Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unusually well-attended meeting yesterday, the faculty resumed its debate on a report which urges the first major reform of the Med School curriculum in more than half a century. The consensus seemed to favor changes along the lines recommended by the report...
Prepared last year by a special subcommittee, the report calls for streamlining the curriculum to allow students more time for elective courses. The subcommittee also asks for more interdepartmental teaching, and for reduced emphasis on the lecture as a method of instruction...
...while most faculty members agreed that the curriculum is now too rigid, several said that they feared any changes...
...number of speakers blamed this, as well as the rigidity of the curriculum, for taking the flair out of the "dazzling" students who enter the Med School. Another speaker argued that even more of the graduates would be dull and prosaic if they had not been bright enough to withstand the stultifying experience of the Med School's present course of study...
...need constant changes in curriculum to reflect new knowledge," Keppel said. Instead, he said, education as an institution has remained "remarkably unchanged in the last 50 years." Universities will play an essential role in this area, the former dean of Harvard's Graduate School of Education predicted...