Word: curriculums
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...Harvard Law faculty’s unanimous endorsement of extensive first-year curriculum reforms last week could strengthen Law School Dean Elena Kagan’s chances at becoming the University’s next president, law professors said yesterday...
...plan marks the most sweeping revisions to the school’s first-year curriculum since the tenure of Dean Christopher C. Langdell, who introduced the case method and Socratic cold-calling to legal education...
...added: “It’s a historical irony that this is the particular moment that international law is being added to the curriculum just as the international legal framework collapses around us...largely due to actions taken...
While the newly approved revisions focus on the first year, the faculty approved changes to the second- and third-year curriculum late last year. The revisions are an effort to add focus to the later years by creating optional, guided tracks of study for students who wish to specialize in some area of the law. In the past, students had spent their upper-class years primarily taking introductory courses, Kagan said, and so the new tracks will allow for a “progression through the three years...
...most striking about that climate of conservatism is that it is being driven not by faculty or administrators or government officials but by students. At Punjab U., I.J.T. is the most powerful force on campus, shaping not just the mores of student life but also larger debates over curriculum, course syllabuses, faculty selection and even degree programs. Nationwide, the group has more than 20,000 members and 40,000 affiliates active at nearly all of Pakistan's 50 public universities. Students who defy I.J.T.'s strict moral code risk private reprimands, public denouncements and, in some cases, even physical violence...