Word: curriculum
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Shattuck Professor of Government James Q. Wilson headed the group that developed the Core Curriculum in the 1970s. The program requires students to receive instruction in a variety of disciplines and is a model for schools across the nation...
...contention was made that we had to understand modes of inquiry, how scientists, sociologists, artists, philosophers understand human nature and the world," Wilson said, explaining the impetus for the Core Curriculum...
...Curriculum development is often influenced by "a tension between guiding and turning loose" the creative potential of undergraduates, said Anthony G. Oettinger '51, McKay Professor of Applied Mathematics. Oettinger was a primary developer of the freshman seminar program...
...assistance to the poor, he said, "I would like to see a joint program between law firms and the law schools, that creates a legal aid service." The program would have an additional feature of giving hands-on experience to law students, which he also said the law school curriculum currently lacks...
Professor of Law Martha Minow also proposed sweeping changes in the curriculum, even while quoting Woodrow Wilson who said, "trying to change curricula is liking trying to move a graveyard...