Word: curriculum
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...project, one of President Neil L. Rudenstine's five interfaculty initiatives, has had little impact on the College curriculum thus far. But the HPSC eventually hopes to create more courses--and eventually an undergraduate concentration--in children's studies...
...given its approach to undergraduate education. The British system stresses specialization within a single discipline. In addition, no previous undergraduate experience is required as a prerequisite for the study of such fields as law and medicine. One might expect that, in a school which stresses a more narrowly focused curriculum and even the study of pre-professional disciplines, the institutional study of business would be well at home...
...type of liberal arts education taught here seems to be at odds with the study of a subject as pragmatic as business, even at the graduate level. At Harvard, the breadth of subjects in the undergraduate curriculum need not have any direct consequence for one's career. The implication is that the practical aspects of one's education are not necessarily the most crucial. A triumph of intellectual curiosity over more pragmatic sensibilities, American students spend four years (British undergraduates only three) studying subjects without having to specialize in the fields that they will pursue...
...committee is proposing a new structure for the Core, but it's a conversation we haven't finished," said Shannon Jackson, an assistant professor of literature who sits on the council. "We're discussing the Core in light of concentration requirements and other curriculum issues...
...Core curriculum first began educating undergraduates in 1979; since then, the Faculty has released four reports reviewing the program prior to this...