Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...date, each show is written to meet curriculum goals which are set yearly. The 29th season's main curriculum goal was space science, with theme weeks on laughter, literacy, music, health and safety...
Cerf is still with the show, continuing to "be very silly," while effectively and entertainingly meeting all curriculum goals...
...this questioning is not quite the same as doubting the value of the University itself. For example, in calling for more racial and ethnic studies courses in the curriculum, we are not so much challenging the validity of the curriculum itself but rather asking Harvard to live up to our expectations of a well-rounded, liberal arts education that pays adequate attention to emerging fields of scholarship. Even the teaching of such controversial tenets of scholarship as post-modernism and deconstructionism has done little to take apart universities themselves; to the contrary, these theories have supplied American schools with excited...
...rather than answering our calls for a more diverse curriculum, Harvard has, perhaps predictably, occupied itself with creating feelings of self-worth and validation. The very physical landscape of the school simultaneously oozes timelessness and creation. The last four years have seen a spurt of building and renovation. From Annenberg to the Barker Center, Loker Commons to the spanking-new interior of Harvard Law School's Langdell Library, the people who build and maintain Harvard put on quite a show. But Harvard's sheer physical attractiveness is not by itself sufficient in creating value. The value of a Harvard education...
They had a point. I remember Dr. Whittlesly. I took his Geography of South America course for my science credit my senior year. I was agitated. The science credit was mandatory and I had waited too long, but his was the most noted "gut" course in the curriculum: His final exam was invariably based on five books on this reading list. If you read those, you were home free. I had other things to do that spring and I didn't go to any classes. I read the five books and sure enough, with a great sigh of relief...