Word: curriculum
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...Harvard emerges from this period of flux, Hammonds will be responsible for carrying forth several major initiatives launched by Pilbeam, specifically the implementation of the new General Education curriculum and the development of a $1 billion-plus House-renewal plan...
...Harris said the reading list for the class is inspired by his experience in Columbia’s more rigid general education program, known there as the Core Curriculum...
...institutions—can create an architecture of serendipity. They can promote common spaces in which different types of people mingle together. They can promote interactions between people who are different in terms of political convictions, social backgrounds, and even interests. They can combat self-segregation through housing assignments, curriculum, and social nudges of countless different kinds...
...Core Program, ironically enough, bears part of the blame. The Core is supposed to encourage students to take classes from areas outside their concentration. But because most of the classes that meet its requirements are the designated “Core classes,” classified under the Core Curriculum rather than a particular department, most students stay confined to a tiny selection of classes. Of the 1500 classes listed in the Courses of Instruction, only 103 departmental classes count toward the Core, a disproportionate number of which are science or quantitative reasoning...
...going on beneath and behind appearances, to disorient young people and to help them find ways to reorient themselves.” To that end, the new program in General Education seeks not only to push students to understand material outside their concentration, but also to provide a curriculum that is “responsive to the conditions of the twenty-first century...