Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Huang endorses the philosophy of Harvard's Core Curriculum, but he has encountered many bureaucratic problems because of it. He says he gave up on fulfilling the complicated distribution requirements after his freshman proctor could not explain them. Thus Huang never took enough Humanities courses, and he only recently received permission to graduate when administrators allowed him to count Historical Study B-56, "The Russian Revolution," as a Humanities course. "I guess they don't want to hassle most seniors," he says...
...throw seeds to the students," says Vosgerchian, who taught two very popular music courses in the Core Curriculum this year. In return, she looks for students to provide some imaginative input. "I am excited by the students' desire to discover...
Another ever-popular lecturer is Thomas Professor of Divinity Harvey G. Cox, who this year taught "Jesus and the Moral Life" in the Moral Reasoning section of the Core Curriculum and a course on Latin American liberation theology. He credits his popularity to his use of visual and audio aids...
...from sufficiently different backgrounds for us to learn a lot from one another. I admire the magnificent diversity of the Harvard classes of today; I also admire the range of sports and extracurricular activities, much broader than was ours. I also believe that since the adoption of the Core Curriculum and more importantly, the serious implementation of it by senior faculty, instruction in many fields is on a more personal basis than it was in our time, recollections of some classmates to the contrary notwithstanding...
...Great Books. In addition, he started and still directs the Institute for Philosophical Research, which is devoted to publishing learned tracts. He passionately pushes his Paideia program, an experimental educational system that is imbuing selected elementary and high schools in Atlanta, Oakland and Chicago with a rigorous curriculum taught in part by the Socratic method. Adler's prescription for such sustained productivity: "I take almost no exercise, and I work harder every year than the year before...