Word: curriculum
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...won’t be doing many keg stands, but you will get to try out a shiny new curriculum that is not yet obsolete (or at all different from...
...concentration.) It wasn’t until the early 1900s that then-Harvard President Abbott Lawrence Lowell began pushing for more concentrations, musing that a “well-educated man must know a little bit of everything and one thing well.” Thus came the Core Curriculum (now General Education for all you froshies), along with 46 individual concentrations to choose from. Here’s some advice we wish we had when we were thinking about concentrations...
This is a historic year to be a Harvard freshman—not only because capricious budget cutting may render your favorite academic disciplines nonexistent, but also because you’re the first class to graduate under the new General Education curriculum...
...Three types of classes count toward Gen Ed: courses explicitly labeled “General Education” in the course catalog, old-school Core Curriculum classes that still count for Gen Ed credit, and departmental alternatives. The latter two should be listed without course descriptions in the Gen Ed section of the course catalog...
...suburban soccer moms aren't the only ones committing to animal husbandry. Catherine Ferguson Academy, a Detroit high school for teens who are pregnant or have already become mothers, has for years had a working farm adjacent to campus. The school considers gardening and raising animals integral to its curriculum. Under the tutelage of life-sciences teacher Paul Weertz, the young women built a barn one year and provide daily care for rabbits, horses, goats, chickens, ducks, turkeys and peacocks. The students recently acquired a pig and, says principal Asenath Andrews, they're going...