Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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First in an occasional series on the Harvard Core Curriculum. Concluding its tenth year, the Core faces administrative review in a context of national debate over academic philosophy, and within inherent limits on undergraduate education set by a research-oriented faculty...
...other colleges, minority organizations operate much differently. For example, Brown's Third World Coalition recently organized an immense protest against the lack of representation of Third World issues in Brown's curriculum. Film clips of the protest, as well as interviews with the members of the Coalition, will be aired this month on 20/20...
...School professors say the case system does allow flexibility for students to depart from the curriculum and discuss outside events such as the Wall Street insider trading scandal...
...result of the gap between Harvard's predominantly case-based curriculum and those of other major business schools, B-School doctoral students often find that their alma mater is the only option for a career in business academia. Many B-School professors completed their doctoral study at Harvard; but at other schools, fewer Harvard MBA's join the faculty ranks. Harvard students' excellence in case research is unquestioned, say other business school professors, but their potential for scholarship in a non-case atmosphere is limited...
...School has also helped other Harvard graduate schools to utilize the case study method. B-School professors last year helped Harvard's Medical School make its New Pathways program--a case-based system of instruction initiated as a 24-student experimental project four years ago--the foundation of its curriculum. The School of Public Health and the Kennedy School of Government also use the case method in some of their courses, says Christensen...