Word: curriculums
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Interim Dean of the Faculty David Pilbeam announced at yesterday’s Faculty meeting the creation of an ad hoc committee to advise the next dean on activity-based learning, turning professors’ attention toward a new initiative as the debate over the new general education curriculum approaches a conclusion...
...would not be a requirement in the curriculum, but it is something that the University thinks should be an important part of your education,” said Boes, who is also a research officer at the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning...
...they criticized the current Core Curriculum for being dominated by non-teaching administrators, professors at yesterday’s Faculty meeting stressed the importance of continued faculty leadership of the proposed general education program. Although most spoke in favor of creating an expansive new program that could be home to a number of courses currently taught within departments, professors remained divided over the place of departmental courses in the future plan.After stressing that one of undergraduates’ greatest qualms with the Core was the lack of course options, Professor of History Peter E. Gordon emphasized the importance of counting...
...changes allowed students to have one of the usual four half-courses per semester graded pass-fail, excepting requirements like the Core Curriculum. It also delegated concentration credit policy to each department, in an effort to appease faculty wary of students taking too many pass-fail courses, which, at that time, was an effective compromise for addressing a new and revolutionary desire for academic freedom...
Since 1969, Brown University’s New Curriculum has fostered the kind of academic freedom Professor Riesman and others had hoped for at Harvard. Brown allows students to have courses letter-graded or non-letter graded, with a Satisfactory/No Credit option. Through this open curriculum, Brown aims to prioritize “intellectual growth rather than the static transmission of knowledge”—essentially, a broad and curious academic perspective. Admittedly, Brown’s intellectual ethos is historically very different from Harvard’s, but we could nonetheless learn from its exploration-focused, open...