Word: curriculums
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...that cannot be underestimated. Some students find co-taught courses stimulating, but others find them confusing. For the moment, the courses are proposed as optional rather than mandatory. We need to see what kinds of courses are proposed and how well they function within the rest of the undergraduate curriculum. Still, in the best of circumstances, we might ultimately require that every student take an interdisciplinary course. We need to think carefully about how these courses will be structured, what topics they might cover, and whether team teaching is invariably a good thing...
...vision for general education, professors must decide what sort of vision they are seeking. Baird Professor of Science Gary J. Feldman says that the faculty first needs to agree on general education principles.“If we define our purposes well and we design an innovative and exciting curriculum that matches them—maybe not a curriculum but a set of requirements and offerings—we can sell that. We should start with the educational values we want and then let the administrators take that and sell it,” he says. Bol says the purpose...
...wrote in a letter to Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby that past February that “it has never been thought that the main goal of Harvard College should be to produce the next generation of university professors or that our curriculum and pedagogy should be designed in service of that end.” The main goal of Harvard College aside, I’ve found during my time here at Harvard that my most important educational moments have occurred in the extracurricular rather than the purely academic realm. Covering the law school dean search...
...supervision of our faculty while living on campus and enjoying meals and evening programming together, to build community among students in the sciences. A key component of the curricular review that remains before us is the creation of a new program in general education, which will replace the Core Curriculum. The Faculty has been discussing a two-pronged approach to general education, which includes a distribution requirement that will provide students with some breadth in their programs, and specially designed courses intended to provide students with the skills and knowledge that they will need to become engaged and responsible citizens...
...worry about this whenever I am asked by deans and presidents of leading foreign universities to define (and sometimes to help them to adopt) a “Harvard education.” When colleagues from several Asian countries have asked how best they could import our Core Curriculum, I felt compelled to tell them of all its strengths. But I also share with them our several proposals to replace...