Word: curriculums
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After four years and innumerable committees we finally have a fundamentally new general education curriculum. Such finality should be welcomed, but however glad we may be that the Preliminary Report of the Task Force on General Education has been released, it is, in its current form, a thoroughly bad idea...
...Core Curriculum, the Task Force’s thinking goes, focuses too strongly on “ways of knowing” and too little on actual knowledge. So far so good; there is undoubtedly a certain breadth and depth of knowledge that every graduate ought to have...
...heart of a liberal arts education merely because most students do not intend to remain in the academic world is ludicrous. Liberal arts education cannot simply be concerned with what is practical; if we begin going down that path, why not go the whole way and compose a Core Curriculum of accounting, carpentry, and “Empowering You?...
...reduced emphasis on history and literature in favor of two courses in “Cultural Traditions and Cultural Change” and “The United States: Historical and Global Perspectives” is the most egregious sin of the new curriculum. At a time when pre-professionalism and strict functionalism are omnipresent, instruction in areas where an immediate real world link cannot always be found must be preserved and enhanced. History, literature, and the arts must be taught for their own sake, not because they make us “global citizens” or prepare...
...taken lightly. The changes of the last few years—improved peer advising systems, new social spaces, and a more student-focused College administration—have only begun to bring the College up to speed with its competitors. Current students find themselves trapped within a dying core curriculum, with no clear guidance of how to navigate the changes currently underway. There is still no student center. Undergraduate advising leaves much to be desired. And, perhaps most importantly, a large number of undergraduate courses continue to harbor sub-par instructors, and faculty-student contact is worse than...