Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...page text, Bennett assails academia for offering students a "smorgasbord" instead of a fundamental, structured curriculum, and he points to Harvard's Core Curriculum as a glaring example of this failure...
...think students would benefit from a real core curriculum--i.e., a set of fundamental courses, ordered, purposive, coherent. I cannot discern such a core curriculum here," Bennett says...
...have studied the Harvard catalog, and I agree that under the heading of the Core Curriculum we find an agglomeration of courses, many of them obviously meaty and important, taught by eminent scholars, on a wide variety of subjects," Bennett says...
...minimum, Bennett says, a solid core curriculum must encompass "the basic body of knowledge which universities once took it upon themselves as their obligation to transmit, under the name of a liberal education...
...stated aim of Harvard's five-year-old Core Curriculum is to introduce students to different "modes of learning" or academic approaches. Its authors eschewed the notion that students should be required to master a basic body of knowledge--or that such a body of knowledge could be defined...