Word: curriculum
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...more genteel days, Harvard’s curriculum was nearly all required; the readings and teaching proposed to the youth a broad view of all that was thought beautiful and good for the gentleman. Modern fancies, however, have overwhelmingly favored the eviternal proliferation of options, whittling down the common texts for every entering class to the contents of one slim pamphlet, “Community Conversations...
...letter e-mailed to Faculty members yesterday afternoon, Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Michael D. Smith touched on topics ranging from administrative reorganization, to the undergraduate curriculum, to the effects of the recent financial crisis...
...know what to make of Brown. The Bears won a game they had no business winning against Harvard and confirmed their status as the trendy Ivy League pick in Week 2. Then they go ahead and get blown out by a 2-4 Rhode Island squad. If the Open Curriculum All-Stars would stop choosing when to win and lose the way they choose classes, maybe my job would be a little easier...
...hazard,” which so many journalists cite in today’s newspapers. The founding of the Broad Institute at Harvard and MIT in 2004 has spurred scientists on the cutting edge of biology and technology to collaborate on developing genomic medicine. Even the undergraduate Life Sciences curriculum spans five departments, taught by “interdisciplinary teams of faculty [to] address topics in the context of larger biological questions.” At the Wyss Institute, there is no doubt that this interdisciplinary “bioengineering of the future,” as Provost Steven...
...rumors are true.During the 2006 Alaska governor’s race, Palin stated that creationism and evolution should both be taught in the classroom, but that her opinion was not to prohibit debate and that creationism “doesn’t have to be part of the curriculum.”Therefore, she is undoubtedly in the league of people who believe that there can be a religious explanation for the creation of the universe. However, this is a large group, which can include everyone from Intelligent Designers, to young-earth creationists, to people who believe that...