Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...basic writing programs in the University. Student course evaluations had been good and Byker had never expressed any dissatisfaction with the course. So when he handed the three teachers of Expos 14, "Editorial, Feature, and News Writing," letters notifying them that the journalism course was being eliminated from the curriculum, it came as a surprise...
...Although I myself believed the journalism expos was just as good a writing course as any other section, one of the committee members felt the course was geared to 'hip' writing rather than developing clear, felicitous prose," he said. "Another member felt the course had no place in the curriculum of a University where courses in applied music and drama were forbidden," he said...
...nothing to do with developing expository writing skills. "We had a fight at a faculty meeting about teaching this creative writing course--one which I don't think is valid," Robbins said. Byker responded with three reasons why he thought "of the two anomalies" in the expository writing curriculum, the fiction course is a more suitable offering: it had a longer history, more demand, and a full-time teacher...
Whether the journalism option should be offered under a different name or different program are moot points. At this point, however, it seems that the quiet decision to scuttle a popular option in Harvard's curriculum merits more of a hearing than its opponents gave it last spring...
...Greek and Hebrew, two prerequisites, told the school to get rid of the two languages and include more modern languages. The analogy is too easily and inconsiderately applied. If there is no clear link between the scientific knowledge and clinical performance, then what is so outrageous about making the curriculum fit today's present need for more doctors in impoverished areas...