Word: curriculums
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...that are badly taught. The faculty needs to put faith into the ability of undergraduates to choose what is right. There must be a large enough menu so that a market for courses develops, allowing the pedagogical cream to rise to the top and allowing students to tailor the curriculum to their interests. A good criterion is that no student with a requirement left in their senior year should be pigeonholed into taking something they are not enthusiastic about.We are also unsure whether the 10 categories specified by the report are the best divisions to fulfill the report?...
...center, but Martin said, “I want to be remembered first as a dean of students.”Martin said he is proud of his effort to increase training in ethics, community health, and anthropology. “We’ve completely transformed the medical curriculum,” he said.Third-year students at the school previously had moved among seven clinical rotations in a 12-month time-span. “Just moving from one site to another during that principal clinical experience was disruptive,” he recalled.Martin has sought to bring stability...
...head says Holy Cross, but my heart is screaming Brown. Note to the Bears: this isn’t your curriculum, it’s football, and there are requirements. Like running the ball or stopping the other team’s run with some semblance of effectiveness...
Former Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68, a frequent critic of the current Core Curriculum, said he was already impressed by the outlines of the proposal as described in news reports. “It’s a structure that proceeds from a sensible rationale, based on observing the ways in which the student body has changed over the years,” Lewis said over the phone last night...
Lewis, whose recent book criticizing Harvard’s curriculum, “Excellence Without a Soul: How a Great University Forgot Education,” was footnoted in the report, said he was shocked that the proposals had emerged from a six-member faculty committee that met for the first time this June...