Word: curriculums
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...first inter-faculty department.Faust must also deal with a recalcitrant and old-fashioned Faculty of Arts and Sciences. To say that the Faculty is currently in a difficult position would be an understatement—it faces a budget deficit and must implement a new general education curriculum that has largely fizzled. Faust’s leadership is also needed to reinvent pedagogy at Harvard, as the Faculty has been unmotivated by a landmark report on Harvard’s teaching deficiencies and refuses to require teaching evaluations for all courses.The Faculty has also resisted investing in the undergraduate experience...
...That’s not something that’s part of the curriculum,” Mazur says. “You don’t learn that when you become a scientist...
...Although Assistant Professor of Bioengineering Debra T. Auguste was not directly involved with the creation of the new Life Sciences curriculum at Harvard, she is in many ways a living example of breakthroughs that can be gained from multidisciplinary research. Auguste’s research focuses on better understanding the biology of stem cells and interfacing this knowledge with tissue engineering to improve drug delivery and to better understand diseases...
...greater disservice has been visited upon students by another euphemism: the pretense that a Harvard education is “international.” The notion appears consonant with the College’s diverse student body, as well as the global ambitions of the newly released curriculum. But insofar as a global education is made to beget thinking in global terms, ours has fared poorly...
...general education is the public face of liberal education”—as the Task Force on General Education report declared this year—Harvard will soon be known for being muddled and uninspiring. The new curriculum, which was passed last month by a Faculty anxious not to lose face by voting down legislation that has been over four years in the making, is a flawed hodgepodge that, in trying to appease everyone, will ultimately serve no one. When the Task Force’s preliminary report was released last October, we hoped and believed that General...