Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Western culture do not explain why the liberal arts tradition has decayed, or why specialization has grown to dominate academic life. An examination of the history of liberal education at Harvard suggests that the liberal arts ideal may be threatened by social and educational trends which a core curriculum alone would be powerless to reverse...
While the Core proposal seems to be well intentioned, there is no reason why the new core curriculum should hold out against specialization and pre-professionalism any better than the original Gen Ed program did. In the midst of an acute job crunch it seems unlikely that the academic profession will be willing to restructure itself radically and experiment with new kinds of qualifications...
...Ford Foundation agreed to support the study because the Divinity School may provide a model for other schools trying to integrate women's studies into the curriculum, Buchanan added...
Discussions presently underway at Harvard on the core curriculum, for instance, are an outgrowth of Conant's seminal understanding of the need for a general education. The 1945 report "General Education in a Free Society," sponsored by Conant, led to the introduction of general education programs at Harvard and elsewhere...
...Faculty Committee on Women's Studies, created last October by the Faculty Council, has not yet devised a specific plan for introducing women's studies into the curriculum at the College...