Word: curriculum
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...October, Harvard made waves by unveiling a new general education system that includes a required course in “The United States and the World.” That new curriculum will begin to replace the Core next year...
...just one of several alternative courses he had shopped this week, is a computer science concentrator who decided to take Scanlan’s offering as an elective after hearing about it last spring. “This isn’t something you normally see in the Harvard curriculum,” he said. “It’s awesome...
...interested in human rights to a nexus for students, scholars, institutes and organizations within and around Harvard. The University president added that she was “inspired” by the high level of student engagement in human rights, and suggested that the College’s changing curriculum might cater to that interest. “We have a new undergraduate curriculum being implemented and I can think of all different kinds of opportunities for teaching and learning in human rights to impact the curriculum,” Faust said. Other speakers also called for increasing the opportunities...
...upperclassmen drag themselves back to class and the Class of 2011 exuberantly swarms the Yard, one thing seems to be missing: any indication of the new General Education curriculum that the Faculty passed last May. Freshmen—and their advisers—barely know of its existence. Faculty members—whose enthusiasm is critical to get the new program off the ground—seem apathetic. And the committee that will decide the critical details of implementation and transition has yet to even convene. In fact, its first meeting is tomorrow. In other words, after four critical months...
...easy to blame it all on Harvard, a place quite often accused of anglophilia and academic self-centeredness. Students cite strenuous tutorial requirements, an inflexible core curriculum and demanding concentration courses that must be taken in succession as prohibitive to studying abroad. But Harvard students continually stay home—perhaps because it is the safe option, but also because there is a certain desperate fear that academic life elsewhere is less challenging, less intense, and less interesting. This is not only untrue, but it is an insidious subplot at a university whose alumni continually go on to affect...