Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...women don't do as well onvocabulary as men do, even though they have hadbetter preparation in languages, Busby replied:"Women do not do as well on vocabulary because menhave been exposed to more vocabulary words in theother classes. The vocab section takes vocabularyfrom all different types of curriculum...
...part of an overhaul of its undergraduate curriculum, the Department of History next year will introduce an international relations track featuring two of its most prominent professors...
...tutorial is a significant shift from current sophomore tutorials, which are taught by graduate students and present the same curriculum to all history concentrators...
...replacing the Core with distribution requirements. Distribution requirements, as they exist in other universities, would require students to take a number of courses from each department rather than setting aside specific courses for non-concentrators, as the Core does. However, the Core is an important part of Harvard's curriculum. Harvard asks its students to declare their concentrations at the end of their first year. This is very early compared to other universities. For that reason, most of the courses within a concentration are very focused for students within that concentration...
...Core, in theory, is a better choice for students to get a broad liberal arts education while adhering to the very focused concentration requirements. Rather than emphasizing subject matter, the Core aspires to introduce students to schools of thought and, as the Introduction to the Core Curriculum for Freshmen states, "major approaches to knowledge." In theory, therefore, the Core strives to acquaint students with different philosophies rather than forcing students to amass large amounts of material...