Word: curriculums
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...Lodge would then lurch off, muttering under his breath.Luckily, Harvard’s isolationism has dissipated since those quaint pre-World War II days–as of a couple years ago, they even started encouraging us to study abroad! As part of your newly internationalized curriculum, you get to take a core class in the exciting field of “Foreign Cultures,” a more-or-less painless category that touts some of the College’s strongest professors and a sexy lineup of courses, ranging from Foreign Cultures 67, “Popular Culture...
...professors of Historical Studies B have reason to be teaching scared. If the planned overhaul of the Core Curriculum replaces Historical Studies B with a more flexible set of distribution requirements, they fear students won’t turn up for their antiquarian history classes. The Core currently forces much of the student body to be exposed to classical, medieval, and early modern history, while new distribution requirements would almost assuredly make it easier for students to escape the distant past, if not the study of history entirely.The declared intent of Historical Studies B is to acquaint non-concentrators with...
...with marked reward, these two classes are the hazing in the History concentrator’s academic experience. Required of all concentrators until the 2006-2007 school year, both are Western history survey courses that cover thousands of years–in just one year. Much like the curriculum and readings, the makeup of the classes tends to be composed primarily of white males. History 10a is the paradigm for many students’ larger intellectual gripes about Harvard: the class covers too much, too hastily and too broadly. The lecturing is split up between three professors who vary...
...committee charged with replacing the Core Curriculum with a new plan of general education hopes to unveil its preliminary proposals before the end of the month, one of the committee’s co-chairs said Friday...
...Africa - and made Moi very nervous. Ngugi first started writing in the '60s, under his original name, James Ngugi, and in English: the leftover colonial language still revered in parts of today's Africa, where schools punish students for speaking African languages. Pushing aside the influences of his childhood curriculum - William Wordsworth, Jane Austen, T.S. Eliot - he instead dipped into Africa's storytelling history. "The tradition from which I came was that of the realism of the 19th-century English novel," he says. "It was very limiting in terms of imagination, time and space. The folkloric tradition frees the imagination...