Word: curriculum
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...Faculty’s sixth meeting in as many weeks, professors approved the general education curriculum in a 168-14 vote, with 11 abstentions...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) today approved legislation to replace the Core with a new general education curriculum emphasizing the real-world applications of a liberal arts education...
...curriculum approved today has its foundations in a report released in October by a task force headed by English professor Louis Menand and philosophy professor Alison Simmons. That report made headlines by proposing that every undergraduate be required to take a course in the study of religion and a course on the United States. The group’s final report, released in February, eliminated the requirement of a religion course but retained the requirement of a course on the United States...
...marathon of six meetings over the past six weeks, the Faculty debated the place of history and of departmental courses in the new curriculum. Last month, professors voted that students be required to take one course engaged “substantially with the study of the past”—a move described by one historian as “mostly symbolic” but important for fellow colleagues who have criticized the present-day focus of the proposed curriculum...
...agenda of the University and for my own agenda in the months and years to come,” she said. “I will regard it as both my privilege and responsibility to work together with a new dean to support implementation of a new curriculum...