Word: curriculums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Four new courses will be added to the curriculum of the Department of Geology and Geography, it was learned last night. Two will be given next semester, white the others will probably alternate in succeeding years...
...work may be done in connection with seminar study by students in groups not exceeding twenty-five or may be done in some particular subject under the supervision of an assigned instructor. To make seminar study available for all third-year students, new seminars have been added to the curriculum...
...Yard, the plan has found within itself the seeds of growth and dissemination. It was first adopted by Manhattanville College. Just recently Radcliffe and Brown planted the first seeds on their campuses. More than the ideal of service is embodied in this rapid maturity. Its importance in the college curriculum is due to two factors: the opportunity for students to participate in an educational experiment, and even more, to coordinate their own studies with the realm of experience...
...contacting the world beyond the class room window, the Undergraduate Faculty adds the benefit of experience to the college curriculum. A new element--the combination of the text book with actual reality--broadens and enriches studies which have sended to sterility. The examples of Harvard, Manhattanville, Radcliffe and Brown are a challenge to other colleges. With its service both to the student and to the community, the Undergraduate Faculty should find a useful place on campuses throughout the nation...
...less stress on examinations. On the other side it may be argued that the giving of course credit would not necessarily increase participation. Moreover, an experimental course faces the real danger of becoming a notorious snap, particularly if formal check-ups are minimized. And the very incorporation into the curriculum might at the outset kill any experimentation with the slow poison of required reading lists and hour exams...