Word: curriculums
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...Force’s adherence to a consistent underlying philosophy, the report’s undying loyalty to a somewhat arbitrary vision of general education as “real-world application” runs the risk of repeating some of the most atrocious failures of the current Core Curriculum. Though numerous, these failures can be grouped into two main categories. First, thanks to their focus on “ways of knowing,” Core classes tend to focus on limited and somewhat obscure topics that are great for cocktail party banter but hardly form the basis...
...They emphasized that it is ultimately the report’s implementation that will determine how the future of general education will differ from the current Core Curriculum...
Members of Harvard’s two governing boards said that they thought Faust would pursue largely the same priorities as Summers—most notably the review of the undergraduate curriculum, the Allston expansion, and the emphasis on scientific research...
...wanted Ethical Reasoning to be a more inclusive, or a more expansive, category than the current ‘Moral Reasoning’ requirement,” Simmons said, referring to a category in the present Core Curriculum...
...screenwriting programs in the past. To help workshop attendees, he says that he tries to “provide students with tools that worked for me and may work for them.” A self-confessed former “workshop junkie,” Rader said his curriculum and teaching technique have been heavily influenced by the thinking of Carl Jung, among others, as well as Tibetan Buddhism. Writing, he says, should be an ego-less process. Through exercises such as the exploration of students’ pasts and their own “falls from grace...