Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...purpose of the Summer School is to meet the needs of outside students by drawing on the resources of the University," says Pihl, the School's director since 1981. "We are not dictating a combination of courses that result in a degree. Rather, our curriculum reflects our aggregate needs...
...litany of mundanity is so long that it deserves some mention at a time when the world is supposed to start considering the Class of '86 as "educated." Many of the problems with the undergraduate curriculum are undoubtedly not indigenous to Harvard: unoriginal lectures, large curriculum gaps, irritating requirements, senile professors, arena size classes, badly designed courses. One would be naive to expect a university the size of Harvard to police itself so regularly that every course would be an original and exciting educational experience...
...this would be excusable if the classes themselves were thought-provoking and challenging. Excepting five or six of the 34 courses I've taken here, they are not. Core Curriculum offerings, ostensibly the proud flagships of a new, improved curriculum, are rarely more than lowest common denominator surveys of broad areas of knowledge...
During his years at Harvard, the former Guggenheim Fellow has held several administrative posts, including head of the Core Curriculum Foreign Cultures subcommittee. He has also served on a Center for Middle Eastern Studies steering group...
Define progressive levels of skill, responsibility and reward, with a salary norm of $35,500, rising to an average of $65,500 for special "lead teachers," who might do anything from setting curriculum standards to actually running a school, perhaps by committee...