Word: curriculum
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...company developed for the film Amistad [ESSAY, Dec. 29-Jan. 5]. The guide was written not by publicists but by editors of this company, which has almost 20 years' experience in creating classroom materials. It was designed as a supplement to--not a substitute for--the social studies curriculum. We ask students to explore the difference between historical drama and historical scholarship and include a comprehensive bibliography. The response from educators has been overwhelmingly positive. DOMINIC KINSLEY, Editor in Chief Lifetime Learning Systems Stamford, Conn...
There seem to be two substantive ways in which the program could be reformed. A stiff core curriculum could be introduced or all requirements could be abolished. The task force on core curriculum chose the first course. It proposed this past fall that all students should be required to pick one course out of eight offered in biology, physics, math, non-western cultures, modern social analysis and political and moral philosophy, and one out of 12 in western culture. Other recommendations include the abolition of the language requirement and continuation of an expository writing requirement...
...defense of this strict curriculum the task force claims that students need the guidance that requirements would give them. The report says these requirements are necessary to insure that all students are exposed to those significant intellectual skills and elements of culture that, given a free choice, they might well neglect and later regret having done...
...will become more valuable only after the Faculty commits itself to teaching basic introductory courses. The dean should insist that these courses be taught and devise an incentive system for professors to teach them. The task force recommended the easy way out by requiring students to take a core curriculum. The more difficult but better recommendation would be to get Faculty members to offer a liberal arts curriculum with courses in many different basic subjects that all students would find attractive...
...early May, the Faculty endorsed the underlying principle that the task force on the core curriculum expounded in its report-the need for more stringent non-concentration requirements for undergraduates. However, it voted to carry on consideration of a substantive "core program" within the framework of a five-area format that the Faculty Council proposed, rather than the Wilson committee's eight-area plan. Over the summer, two Faculty members will draw up an agenda for hammering out a detailed curriculum proposal in each of the five areas. But everyone involved in the core curriculum debate, especially Wilson...