Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Many--maybe even the majority--of graduate students are wonderful teachers. As long as the situation is carefully controlled and regulated, the curriculum substantially benefits from graduate students working closely with professors to provide undergraduates in large courses with close attention...
...problem, then, is not so much that Harvard relies on graduate students to teach, but rather that it does so in an uncoordinated way. Heavy use of TFs--unlike the rest of the curriculum--is not a carefully-planned, thoroughly-discussed element of the University's educational strategy. Instead, it is an attempt to improvise in response to immediate needs. The trouble is, this improvisation has become a permanent part of Harvard University's repertoire...
...Supreme Court nominee from the movement's standpoint, further suggested a loss of clout. As for issues like abortion and school prayer, Moral Majority spent millions "without achieving one piece of legislation," observes Evangelical Theologian Carl F.H. Henry. Fundamentalists this year also lost three significant court cases dealing with curriculum grievances against public schools...
Improving Harvard's science curriculum has also become a recently voiced concern of Dean for Undergraduate Education David Pilbeam. The fact that a large number of undergraduates who enter Harvard planning to concentrate in the sciences end up switching their majors has heightened this concern, he said...
...while the Department's failure to teach social theory may simply be a result of history itself, the incorporation of such thinkers as Geertz into the History Curriculum would not be difficult. In some Sophomore tutorials Gramsci is taught as part of the unit on Historiography. That unit could easily be changed to one on how historians use social theory. Or, as a less drastic measure, a course on historiographical uses of social theory could be made a departmental elective...