Word: curriculums
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After four consecutive years of failing to make progress in one area, schools are moved to “corrective action,” and can be required to make changes in staffing and curriculum. After five years of failing to make progress, schools are designated as needing “restructuring,” and can be taken over by the state...
Interim Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles said yesterday that revamping the undergraduate curriculum will take time but that major progress will be made this year. Interviewed in his freshly redecorated corner office, the new dean said he wanted to use his remaining 42 weeks in University Hall to ameliorate some of the frustrations that students and faculty have voiced in the past. “I am well aware of the feelings of constraint and the range of offerings in the Core,” said Knowles, who led the Faculty of Arts and Sciences through the 1990s...
...questions, and face up to quandaries that enable you to hone your moral compass. Though the MR menu provides a seemingly gourmet spread of professors, readings, and course titles, reality is often more rump roast than filet mignon. The oft-bemoaned core is a product of the 1978 Core Curriculum report, written under the auspices of then (and now) University President Derek C. Bok. The disco era’s original spawn was to be called “Philosophical Analysis.” Then—as is the case now—its proposed coursework centered around political...
...videos hits numbers harder than would the bubonic plague.Oh, the dreaded QR. But do not to fear, Humanities Harvard, even if you can’t pass a course on counting people. Everyone knows the Core’s raison d’être is to provide a curriculum in cocktail conversation, and any numbers that come our way over a cold martini will be more than manageable...
Thanks to the College’s Curricular Review, the Core Curriculum, that onerous set of requirements that has burdenered undergrads for a generation, will soon, finally, be extinct. But that’s of little help to you, fellow undergraduate, for you will be the victim of The Core at its worst, as, in its dying throes, it falls into disrepair, left to waste as professors turn their attention instead to bolstering the forthcoming general education requirements.Before you can graduate and properly be called an educated Harvard Man or Woman, you must complete courses in seven of the Core?...