Word: curriculum
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Patterson agrees with Ferguson's assessment of the committee's goals, and adds that it will also be examining the department's curriculum, its teaching and its faculty quality in an effort to "bring the department in line with other Harvard departments." He notes that perhaps the most important task of the committee is to convince the Harvard community, especially its students, of the intellectual legitimacy of Afro-American Studies. "Students are acutely conscious of the fact that the study now has relatively little status, and have a right to be concerned," he notes...
...Studies Department," culminating in a day-long boycott of classes held last May. Student protestors claimed that Harvard has dawdled in its faculty recruitment, deprived the department of adequate funding and is planning to demote it to an interdisciplinary committee without power to tenure or to determine its own curriculum...
...Core Curriculum, the brainchild of Dean Rosovsky's 1974 review of undergraduate education and five years of professorial debate and intensive faculty committee work, will be phased in over the next three years to replace the ailing 34-year-old General Education (Gen Ed) program. Under the Core, the three-part Gen Ed requirement--Natural Sciences, Social Sciences and Humanities--will become five sections--Literature and the Arts, Historical Study, Social Analysis and Moral Reasoning, Foreign Cultures, and Science...
...will give no tests for mathematical disabilities when math courses are required under the Core Curriculum, Dinklage says. But Andrew M. Gleason, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, says the Math Department hasn't yet faced the question of dealing with students with mathematical disabilities, since the Core requirement will not take effect until next school year. Gleason says he does not expect this to be a great problem to the department, however...
...theory and practice that so many professors see as crucial in winning the battle to get art courses for credit. Louis J. Bakanowsky, studio professor of VES and professor of architecture, this combination is crucial and he too strongly calls for the acceptance of art courses into the curriculum. "The arts should and do have a part in the liberal arts education. If they don't it's like saying that the arts have no part in life, "he says...