Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fullfledged departments (Celtic, Classics, Germanic, Romance, and Slavic) in which these 80 professors teach, but it does not have a single department or program concerned with the teachings of African languages and literatures. Practically every one of the approximately two dozen languages of Europe is part of the normal curriculum of the University; yet not a single one of the indigenous languages of sub-Saharan Africa (estimated to number anywhere from 200 to 1200) is taught as a serious and separate course. Harvard also has two other departments (Comparative Literature and Linguistics) and a related program (Ukranian) whose primary concern...
...religious, historical, legal, political, economic, social, philosophical--is expressed in language and systematically communicated by means of it in varying magnitudes. The very foundations of this University attest to this fact: Latin used to be a prerequisite for admission to Harvard, and practically 50 per cent of the earliest curriculum of the school consisted of the study of Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic, and Syriac. Today every genuine scholar in this University uses language in one way or another as a tool...
Three task forces have already issued reports--on core curriculum, concentrations and college life...
...Faculty is now beginning to consider the task force's proposal to give structure to Gen Ed by creating a more clearly defined core curriculum containing courses in eight definite subject areas...
...Task Force on the Core Curriculum is one of seven task forces appointed by Dean Rosovsky to review undergraduate education at Harvard...