Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Under the typical curriculum for first-year students, moot court competition is a requirement. The mock trials are administered by upperclassmen who advise the new students on how to write and defend legal arguments...
Nesson, who planned the curriculum experiment, said his new course, "Persuasive Expression," "is a straightforward attempt to teach legal argument and expression." Students will help the professor administer the course...
Getting at the Core, Associate Dean for Academic Planning Phyllis Keller's description of the formation of the Core Curriculum, states in part...
...Core Curriculum subcommittee had decided that Core credit would be granted only to those who took the new course, Lit and Arts B-71, "Jazz: An American Music"--and not to those who had taken Music...
...powers-that-be at the Core Curriculum may feel that the new Jazz somehow succeeds at embodying the philosophy of the Core while the old one does not. This is clearly not the case. To claim that there is a significant distinction between two courses which are virtually identical--in texts, listenings, professor, requirements, meeting time, course catalog number and exam group--is at best a poorly executed decision. At worst, it is a penalization of the students who demonstrated a true interest in jazz by taking the course before it became just another magnet for students filling requirements...