Word: curriculums
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...enlightened trial and error.” The author of the 2006 book, “Our Underachieving Colleges,” Bok urged colleges to abandon distributive requirements for comprehensive requirements. “We should renounce the simple distribution requirements, which are the staple for most college curriculum, and try to do a better job of identifying what the central purposes of an undergraduate education actually are,” he said In reference to graduate schools, he said they should recognize teaching is not an innate skill—it needs to be taught...
...study published last week by The New York Times showing the poor performance of American students on international tests has led school boards nationwide to rethink the way they have structured their mathematics curriculum...
...measure requiring evaluations of all teaching fellows (TFs) and teaching assistants is on the agenda for Tuesday’s Faculty meeting—along with another round of debate over the succesor to the Core Curriculum...
...known as “Honors Advanced Calculus and Linear Algebra,” is essentially a nine-month mathematical boot camp. The course teaches four years of math in two semesters. “It’s an intense, warp-speed survey of the entire undergraduate math curriculum in one year,” Harrison says...
...aware of debates in the intellectual journals,” Shapin said. At this point, the College has no plans to turn fat studies into an academic track, according to Flood, though she said she expects to see more integration of weight and body issues into the Harvard curriculum, reflecting an increased interest in the subject among Harvard students. “If you were to conduct a survey of Harvard undergraduates, I think you would find that a large number, mostly women but men too, spend more time thinking about weight than they’d like...