Word: curriculums
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...students invite Jews to share a fast-breaking meal at the end of a day of fasting on Ramadan and Yom Kippur. Jews invite Muslims for an iftar in the Sukkah at Hillel. In the modern world, religious and cultural differences are simply part of our daily lives. The curriculum must catch up with this reality...
...people in each faith encounter the challenges of science, globalization, democracy, secularism, and the sheer fact and power of the religious “other?” These are the world’s questions, not just ours. If our curriculum hopes to create global citizens, it cannot avoid them...
Unlike at other junctures in Harvard’s history, a proposed change in the curriculum has been met with silence, particularly from undergraduates who seem to have tuned the curricular reforms out completely. The lack of engagement is frightening—this campus seems intent on forfeiting its chance to shape Harvard’s future...
...should we be engaged with the curricular review when we are all supposedly likely to have graduated before it comes into existence? For one thing, the implementation of the new curriculum will surely be gradual—because a quarter of Harvard’s undergraduate population changes each year, there can be no single moment to roll out the new program in its entirety. As a consequence, the classes of 2009 and 2010 will likely see their requirements change. Also, if the new curriculum is approved, what to do with the old Core requirements until the new ones...
More importantly, while the primary stakeholders in the new curriculum have yet to enroll, we have a responsibility as their forebears to inject undergraduate concerns into the discussions that will shape their education here after it affects our own. In the weeks ahead, the UC must start engaging undergraduates in the process of shaping the General Education report. Campus-wide forums and dinnertime discussions in House dining halls attended by the faculty members responsible for the new proposal would be a good start. A short, readable summary and commentary on the report should be drafted by UC leaders and distributed...