Word: curriculum
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...Harvard’s discriminatory history is hardly happenstance. For most of the last century, our undergraduate curriculum has encouraged such uniformity more or less explicitly. Since any coherent program of undergraduate education entails choosing a particular set of values, skills, and understandings that college graduates ought to share, it will necessarily exclude any student who, due to race, sexual orientation, or personal taste, disagrees with that mission. It’s this exclusivity that has torn at the cloth of our community, giving the Harvard man enough wiggle room to propagate his hateful, antique notions...
...even more civilian docs in the military, thanks to the "doctor draft," a 1987 congressional authorization that lets the military call up civilian doctors in case of a wartime shortage. Preparing doctors for the possibility of service would not have to demand much of a med school's curriculum. "It doesn't have to be a full class," says Boyd. "Even five lunchtime talks would make the difference...
...longer have to take Expository Writing would be encouraged to visit the Writing Center to get writing help on essays for classes they actually care about. The rest of the funding for Expository Writing could be disbursed to departments to improve the teaching of writing across the curriculum. Ultimately, the organizational structure of the entire Expository Writing program—from bottom to top—has got to change. The University is doing a disservice to its students and should adopt a reformed model that does not force the majority of students to take a useless and boring class...
...elsewhere that promotes poker as a test of skill, Nesson has worked to introduce the game to academia. The society has held multiple discussion panels at Harvard concerning poker’s legality on the national and world stage. The group also plans to introduce a poker-based curriculum into a school in Dorchester, according to Nesson, who hopes that it will be viewed as a “positive, educational game.” “If the public at large came to see poker as positive, that would then find expression...
...David Pilbeam cares deeply about our Expos Program, and effective teaching of writing and speaking in our undergraduate curriculum,” Associate Dean of Undergraduate Programs Georgene B. Herschbach said in a written statement. She has been the University Hall administrator most involved with the program...