Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Masembe said storytelling was central to her childhood in Uganda, where elementary school students are required to tell stories to their classes as part of the curriculum...
Harvard instituted the Core Curriculum 15 years ago because the general education program did not meet the needs of the modern intellectual world. Today, that Core Curriculum has become a bane to many students. The Undergraduate Council has even formed a Core Reform committee. All the problems in the Core originate from two sources: there are not enough offerings within the Core and the classes offered are too specific. If the number and breadth of offerings were to be increased, students would be happier, the load on professors and teaching fellows would be lighter, and the Core would not seem...
...ignored. The time spent in Core classes represents one out of the four "best years of our lives." With this in mind, Harvard students deserve a better Core program then the one we are getting. The Core program was designed to move away from a "Great Books" type curriculum and instead focus on "major approaches to knowledge." It has succeeded in the former but failed in the latter...
...history of Flanders, Catalonia and England as a rubric through which to teach "major approaches to knowledge," that would have been one thing. But this class was just about the twelfth century history of Flanders, Catalonia and England. It was interesting. It has no business being in the Core curriculum...
...initial nominations of 30 women and 24 men were based solely on their grade point averages (GPAs), and the final selections of 12 men and 12 women was based on students' courses and the breadth of their curriculum, according to Michelle Hewitt, assistant to the Dean of Students...