Word: curriculum
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...cursory glance at the Core curriculum reveals Harvard's priorities--priorities that reflect the modern academic environment. Harvard requires its students to take courses in foreign language and foreign cultures--both worthy requirements-but fails to require any study of the United States. It is entirely possible to acquire a Harvard degree without giving a moment's study to America. This sort of purposeful exclusion of American studies is duplicated at universities across the country...
Greenwood said the group's long term goals would include changing the curriculum of Ec 10 and including more student feedback in the course, which she called "a very passive learning experience...
There is nothing new about your editorial criticizing the Core (Sep. 20), recent reform notwithstanding. Harvard's 20-year-old Core Curriculum is still embarrassingly inadequate to prepare students to join 'the company of educated men and women' once they graduate...
None of the new teachers had ever taught SAT prep before joining the program, and all retained second jobs in addition to staffing Get Ready! The curriculum was an amalgamation of published preparation materials, the strategies they learned in their own prep courses and personal insights...
...July 1, has been talking with administrators from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and University Health Services since Altom's death, and estimated last week that he has spent three-quarters of his time as chair rethinking the graduate program and "reconstituting an important part of the curriculum...