Word: curriculum
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...Such support seems consistent with Harris’ resume, which includes a bachelor’s and Ph.D. degree from Columbia—one of the few remaining universities that can lay claim to a required great books curriculum. In the late 1980s, Harris even taught in the university’s Core program, which emphasizes a grounding in canonical texts. Damrosch and Armitage—also Columbia expatriates—once taught in the same curriculum...
...FOUNDATIONAL CURRICULUM...
...overly competitive and unwelcoming to its student body—an image Kagan worked to help the Law School shed since assuming the deanship in 2003. As dean, the student-friendly initiatives Kagan promoted ranged from free coffee in the renovated Harkness Center to a revamp of the J.D. curriculum, which was the most significant overhaul in over 100 years. Kagan also presided over a significant expansion of the faculty, picking up numerous illustrious scholars from rival institutions. Among the Law School’s student body, Kagan enjoyed great popularity, and when she was passed over for the post...
...more concern than course selection for some students is the prospect of how each curriculum might fit with their course of study...
...examples of what classes will fall under each category,” he said. After being directed to the Gen Ed Web site, Lin said that he felt the aim of the program was much clearer, while the description in the Viewbook made Harvard’s academic curriculum seem far more rigid than...