Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...monthly study guides to such serious TV productions as Eleanor and Franklin, Masterpiece Theater and Between the Wars, set out two years ago to transmute even the most mindless network shows into learning aids. The first piece of alchemy was making cops-and-robbers shows the cornerstone of a curriculum package. Columbo episodes serve as lessons on literary elements: dramatic character, plot development, conflict and resolution. Students taking law and criminal-justice courses use a "constitutional-awareness chart" to determine whether Baretta has illegally roughed up a suspect. Armed with their study guides, students quickly become sensitive...
Nevertheless, the Core forced the Faculty to review individual courses to be offered in the basic curriculum over the next several years. The Standing Committee on the Core has frequently rejected proposed courses, or asked the sponsoring professors to revise their proposals to fit the Core guidelines. Whether or not the courses fit the letter of the guidelines, students may benefit from the meticulous course-by-course review by the Core committee...
...Crimson today obtained a list of the Core Curriculum courses approved for the next two academic years which Dean Rosovsky will present to the Faculty at its May 15 meeting...
...lack of sensitivity on the issue of Apartheid in South Africa is in line with Harvard's social and intellectual commitment to the particular brand of exploitation and barbarism cuphemistically known as Western civilization. It is in line with Harvard's failure to recognize the need to broaden its curriculum to include the range of alternative viewpoints to the male, white European ethnocentrism that it now purveys as "liberal" education. Harvard does not recognize or even understand the meaning and validity of Women's Studies.Afro-American Studies. Native American Studies and all the other ways of understanding history and culture...
...U.N.C. President William Friday: "Our basic interest is to give more opportunity to go to college. You don't do that by closing programs." Adds Albert N. Whiting, black chancellor of North Carolina Central: "My answer to HEW is that we should place the emphasis on enhancing our curriculum...