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...English department’s new curriculum was approved on Tuesday and will be introduced next fall. Under the revamped system, large surveys of British literature will no longer be mandatory, and will be replaced by smaller discussion-based courses, grouped in four common-ground categories: “Arrivals,” “Diffusions,” “Poets,” and “Shakespeares?...
...curriculum, which the English department began in March and ratified in December, was approved outright by the Educational Policy Committee. Stephanie H. Kenen, EPC member and associate dean of undergraduate education, said that the committee refers about half of curriculum proposals back to departments, but in this case it only sent back questions...
...English professors said the new curriculum, after the department’s first major reform in over two decades, will be unlike any other they had researched. It will begin offering four common-ground courses in the fall, and a full selection of eight per semester in the spring. These courses will replace the required survey courses English 10a and 10b, the American literature requirement, and the sophomore tutorial...
...Concentrators will now take more electives and fulfill one requirement in each of the four common-ground categories. According to Donoghue, the guiding mission for the new curriculum was to improve pedagogy by reducing class sizes. The new courses will be capped at thirty students...
...many pregnant women in America, it is easier today to walk into a hospital and request major abdominal surgery than it is to give birth as nature intended. Jessica Barton knows this all too well. At 33, the curriculum developer in Santa Barbara, Calif., is expecting her second child in June. But since her first child ended up being delivered by cesarean section, she can't find an obstetrician in her county who will let her even try to push this go-round. And she could locate only one doctor in nearby Ventura County who allows the option of vaginal...