Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Like most every university gallery in the area, the Boston University Art Gallery divides its exhibition program between internationally known artists and B.U.'s own, less famous, students and faculty. The Gallery emphasizes 20th-century figurative painting, in keeping with the B.U. School of the Arts curriculum. The exhibition opening tonight promises much identity-politics-installation excitement. There will be a talk with Ellen Rothenberg from 5-6 and an opening reception from...
...curriculum as it is now designed does not grant us the privilege of learning the basics. The limited scope of the concentration and the relatively small number of electives we have to play with do not provide for a broad-based education. Since there are only three types of courses--concentration, electives and the Core--we are forced to resort to the Core for much of our academic breadth. But there we find only increasing specialization...
...College administration defends its Core curriculum by saying that the courses aim to expose us to different approaches in thinking and learning in different disciplines. No one can oppose such a laudable goal. But why can't we combine the study of approaches with the most classical backgrounds? To this, there has been no answer...
...they love their jobs. Several, like Margaret Skouby, who teaches concept physics, worked as chemical engineers or had other jobs in the private sector before coming here. At Webster they generally have the freedom to teach the way they want. Teachers must meet minimums in the school's curriculum but are not required to write out lesson plans. They measure the rewards in bits. Just as the lunch bell rang yesterday, longtime physics teacher Phillip Wojak rushed into the lounge, almost too excited to speak. A former student had published a textbook--and cited him in the dedication...
...like the way Tamar March [dean of educational programs] talks about the educational programs as the 'aftershock' of work at the Institute," Dunn says. "She means that the people at the Radcliffe Seminars should use the research that's being done to derive an agenda or a curriculum...