Word: curriculums
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...Last summer Lieut. General David Petraeus invited me out to visit the U.S. Army Combined Arms Center at Fort Leavenworth, Kans. Every U.S. Army major spends a midcareer year going to school there. Most of these officers are headed to Iraq or Afghanistan, and the curriculum has been revised to include intensive language courses in Arabic and Pashtu, the history and culture of Islam, a hefty dose of counterinsurgency strategy and tactics, plus the standard military disciplines. I came away inspired and infuriated: if only the Bush Administration?and the public?took the mission as seriously as the Army does...
Dressed in a brown suit jacket, teaching fellow and Government graduate student Samuel W. Goldman doesn’t look much like a punk rocker. His curriculum vitae, which includes publications in the Weekly Standard and Wall Street Journal and a thesis-in-progress advised by Harvey C. Mansfield ’53, is not a product of counterculture. Looks can be deceiving. “When I was in high school, I was, not to say a leader,” Goldman says, “but maybe a fixture in the New York area punk scene...
...task force charged with replacing Harvard’s Core curriculum has dropped its headline-grabbing proposal for a “Reason and Faith” requirement—a category that would have made Harvard the only Ivy to require its undergrads to study religion.The committeehas also suggested a new course requirement on “what it means to be a human being,” which some professors at yesterday’s Faculty meeting criticized as a “grab bag” category.Students could fulfill this requirement with a course in areas...
...hard-hitting pieces about monumental changes in the curriculum has always been Kim. She has a sharp eye for trends that are changing Harvard, including the college consulting phenomenon and changes in the Core. Funny and radio-savvy, she’ll bring a fresh, investigative voice to the editing squad...
...that the General Education task force has lost its faith in religion, the long-anticipated Gen Ed overhaul looks more like the Core than it has at any point during the four-year-long curricular review. The Faculty’s challenge, if and when the proposed curriculum is implemented, will be to recast the generation-old and much-maligned Core into a system with a radically different mission but an uncannily similar structure and nomenclature. The task force that crafted the proposal distributed a letter before yesterday’s Faculty meeting saying it was eliminating...