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British poet Simon Armitage has had a prolific writing career. Beginning with his first collection of poems in 1989 and spanning 13 volumes since, Armitage’s poetry has grown up with a whole generation of British children, taking its place in the high school English literature curriculum alongside Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney. As well as teaching creative writing at Manchester Metropolitan University in the United Kingdom, Armitage embarks regularly on reading tours and on Tuesday, he held a poetry reading in the Woodberry Poetry Room in the Houghton Library.Armitage’s profile has been steadily...
Math has never really been FlyBy's best subject, so there are limited options when it comes to fulfilling the dreaded QR requirement--or, excuse us--the Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning category under the "new" Gen. Ed. curriculum. On the one hand, there are classes like "Bits" and "The Magic of Numbers" that seem geared to the fluffier humanities types, and on the other, there are the departmental courses, which, yes, provide solid, mathematical instruction but are basically just harder versions of the math you couldn't even handle in high school...
...seniors. They said they are now working out the bugs and may extend the application to more OCS/OIP programs next year. The OCS Fellowship Office is now being housed in the OIP’s two-story building at 77 Dunster St., which was formerly home to the Core Curriculum Office. The OIP temporarily had been located at 2 Arrow St, after moving out of its University Hall offices last summer. The OCS is located at 54 Dunster St. The offices recently held a joint fair to provide students with an opportunity to explore their options in the United States...
...part-time jobs, such as returning to the First Circuit in Boston, where he spent just one day hearing cases before starting his tenure at the Supreme Court.Souter has also joined a committee in his home state of New Hampshire that aims to provide statewide standards for a curriculum of civic education—a “subject that has nationally fallen into great disrepair.” And “quite frankly,” the now-retired Supreme Court Justice of simple, but eccentric, tastes (most notably his daily lunch of yogurt and an apple, including...
Students arriving on Harvard’s campus this fall discovered that the University with the progressive approach to education had made several structural changes to the college’s courses of academic study. Aside from the much-publicized overhaul of the Core Curriculum in favor of the new Program in General Education, this school year marks the first full year of a revamped English curriculum. While the changes to the English program attempt to facilitate more productive interactions between students and their course material, some concentrators feel that the modifications to the advising system have need for improvement.First...