Word: curriculums
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...easiest way to start an academic brawl is to ask what an educated person should know. The last time Harvard University tackled that question was in 1978, when it established its Core Curriculum, which focused less on content than on mastering ways of thinking. Like Harvard's so-called Red Book standards of 1945, which helped inspire a generation of distribution requirements, the core had broad resonance at other major universities. Now, after a four-year process initiated under controversial former president Lawrence Summers, the nation's most famous university has come up with a whole new set of guidelines...
Harvard's new curriculum establishes eight primary subject areas that all students will have to take. The categories include Societies of the World, encompassing subjects like anthropology and international relations; Ethical Reasoning, a practical approach to philosophy; and the United States in the World, which will likely span multiple departments, including sociology and economics. The plan, which is expected to be formally approved by the faculty in May, won't go into effect before September 2009 at the earliest...
...creative writing program. The program functions largely as an autonomous body: The creative writing faculty makes most of their administrative decisions independently, and some of the instructors aren’t even affiliated with the English department. “There is a drastic difference between the curriculum of the creative writing department and the curriculum of the critical and analytical [track],” says Daniel G. Donoghue, the department’s Director of Undergraduate Studies and the Marquand Professor of English. But despite this functional autonomy, the creative writing program remains formally included within the larger English...
...founders thought could promote friendly relations.Let’s Get FriendlyRight now, there are only three official exchange students on Harvard’s campus: two from Sciences Po and one from Canada. Both Mason and his fellow compatriot Chine Labbé are students at Sciences Po, whose curriculum centers on the social sciences. Harvard’s direct exchange with Sciences Po is aimed at concentrators in sociology, government, economics, history and social studies. Take note—the application for admission to Sciences Po is due May 31, but you must apply for Harvard credit...
...design. But demanding the same flexibility from a graduate student TF writing a dissertation on, say, designing the American city or something, is an entirely different matter. Academics are trained in specific disciplines defined by their methodologies, not in the content-oriented subject headings of the proposed new curriculum. The experience of the Core demonstrated that to expect professors to teach “modes of inquiry” was to expect too much. Expecting the new curriculum to keep its cross-disciplinary shape under the stewardship of committed disciplinarian is no less ambitious...