Word: curriculum
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...whiff of Eurocentrism still wafts through the Cambridge air.Of course, concerns about the responses to globalization and multiculturalism in the academy are not novel. In fact, this year’s General Education program was originally conceived as an antidote to the university’s increasingly specialized core curriculum offerings (“Dinosaurs and Their Relatives”, anybody?). As it stands, however, Gen Ed is essentially a reshuffling of existing courses into new subcategories—these pages criticized it as “little more than a muddled and insipid rehash of the old Core?...
...slightly random look to it as a whole,” veteran classics professor Richard F. Thomas said of the new curriculum...
...Global cooling was the big threat in the 1960s,” medieval history professor Michael McCormick said recently, highlighting the dangers of structuring a curriculum around current concerns...
...disparities in satisfaction revolve around advising and access to tutorials, said Jay M. Harris, who chairs the committee tasked with creating the new general education curriculum. “In many ways this is a straight numbers problem,” he said...
...world is essential to civic engagement, productivity in the work place, and good personal financial management. Indeed, this mission—preparing students to be engaged citizens and leaders—is mirrored in the preamble of Harvard’s newly adopted General Education curriculum...