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...classics professor Richard J. Tarrant’s Literature and Arts C-61: “The Rome of Augustus” and Maya Jasanoff’s Historical Study A-88: “The British Empire”—hail from different Core Curriculum categories, they will share the same home under the new Gen Ed program. Although Societies of the World is expansive enough to house courses in both literature and history, Dean of Undergraduate Education Jay M. Harris said the category will likely place more emphasis on the social sciences...
...University of Copenhagen, Meaker presented an outline of the summer study programs in architecture offered in cities such as Stockholm and Copenhagen. According to Meaker, the summer architecture programs are focused more on the realistic elements of design than on its theoretical aspects. Meaker said that his curriculum in the glass program emphasizes the question, “How do you come to an idea?” He also emphasized the cultural aspects of the study abroad programs by contrasting the hectic schedules of American students to the more carefully paced lifestyles of Scandanavian design students...
...Apart from the 10 professors involved in the alternative curriculum, the rest of the faculty—about 150 professors—have largely withheld judgment on the experiment...
...Koplan, who is the vice president for academic health affairs at Emory, said that though there will be some resistance from faculty and students wary of the new curriculum, Bloom’s plans have the potential to become the preferred mode of teaching for public health schools across the country...
...think Barry Bloom will be remembered for many contributions to the Harvard School of Public Health,” Koplan said. “But I think that this approach to the curriculum will be a major one that will have a long-term impact on schools of public health in the country...