Word: curriculums
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...professors in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences scrapped a proposed “Reason and Faith” requirement from the recently approved College general education requirements, a broader discussion regarding the role of religion in the curriculum has risen, with many lamenting the absence of a forum to explore the interaction between religion and scholarship on campus...
...legislation passed Tuesday states that student representatives must be appointed to serve on the Standing Committee on General Education, the yet-to-be-formed group that will oversee the transition from the Core to the general education curriculum...
...legislation’s passage comes as a long-anticipated bookend to the four-year-long effort to replace the Core. But the work of implementing the new curriculum is just beginning, and many questions remain unanswered as the Faculty gears up for its biggest curricular transition in a generation.The approved legislation provides a partial timeline for the implementation of the new program. The committee that administers the Core is slated to be dissolved at the end of the coming academic year—but the legislation does not spell out when the Core itself will cease to exist.Dean...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences yesterday approved legislation to replace the Core with a new general education curriculum emphasizing the real-world applications of a liberal arts education.In a 168-to-14 vote at yesterday’s meeting of the Faculty, professors concluded a four-year-long debate over the centerpiece of the curricular review, the College’s first in three decades. After six meetings in as many weeks, professors expressed happiness and relief that the legislation’s passage—a stated goal of FAS administrators for this year—had been achieved.Under...
General education was seen as the centerpiece of the curricular review that began in 2002, but faculty disagreement over the guiding philosophy of the proposed common curriculum delayed the replacement of the much-criticized Core...