Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There are many ways in which the integrated core curriculum may be combined with the departmental elective courses. The two kinds of teaching may run a parallel course throughout each academic year, e.g., core curriculum in mornings and electives distributed over afternoons. The core could be included within the first two or three years and the last one to one and a half years could be reserved entirely for elective courses. The core could be taught in blocks reserved for electives. One example of this last arrangement, which has the attractive feature that electives in all years are taught...
Although it is not the intent or purpose of this initial report to spell out the details of a curriculum, it did seem advisable to map out the broad outlines of a program that we think would be workable. Undoubtedly other specific arrangements might serve the purpose equally well. [Our proposal can be summarized as follows...
...role of the elective courses will be quite different from what it is currently. They will now become an integral part of the curriculum. They will provide at one time both the experience in depth required for attainment of scholarly attitudes and simultaneously give the desired flexibility to the curriculum. There would be three kinds of offerings in the electives...
...Subjects not otherwise considered in the core curriculum...
...Subjects considered in the core curriculum but now offered in greater depth and detail...