Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...concentrators--all seem unfair to those not making the cut. And they're right. It's true that if thousands throng to "Spots and Dots," the teaching staff can hardly be expected to multiply by a factor of 10 in two weeks' time. Director of the Core Curriculum Edward T. Wilcox said recently that the University "will continue to try, but we have been unable to find enough qualified TA's for a lot of the Core courses...
Nina I. Madden, assistant head tutor of Psychology and Social Relations, said the requirements for the new "minor" will be slightly more demanding than those for the standard concentration. Although the newly-created curriculum will cross departmental lines, it will remain under the umbrella of Psychology and Social Relations...
...students from all regions and back grounds with a wide variety of interests and skills both to enhance and to brighten the undergraduate experience and for socially strategic reasons. It is as a result of this policy that there are jock or preppie or wonk Houses. With its Core Curriculum, the College has tried to broaden the minds of its students and insure that they emerge with more than highly specialized knowledge. But when these praiseworthy practices are applied to House and social life, they cease to be admirable and become forms of social engineering. While Harvard can strive...
Faced with unexpectedly huge student turnout and a shortage of section leaders, at least three Core Curriculum courses plan to hold lotteries to limit enrollment, officials said last week...
After years of attention to developing the Core Curriculum and otherwise examining the academic needs of undergraduates, the Faculty has taken notice of some problems peculiar to the lives of those somewhat more experienced educational consumers--graduate students...