Word: curriculums
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...beginning to answer the question of what Harvard has done for me. In my last few moments as Harvard student, I’m once again becoming sensitive to our school’s clout. Friends and classmates who commiserated with me about the shortcomings of the curriculum are landing precisely where they want. The future for all of us is still bright...
...antiquated and broken. It seeks to teach “approaches to knowledge” without any reference to the knowledge being approached. The result is students who may excel in cocktail party details but are not necessarily broadly educated.The first and key proposal involves replacing the current Core Curriculum with distributional requirements. These requirements would consist of three courses each in three subject areas—Arts and Humanities, the Study of Societies, and Science and Technology. Distributional requirements have the benefit of expanding the range of courses with which students may fulfill their requirements. With it, students could...
Though the authors said that the theory-based Social Studies 10—notorious for its demanding reading list of Marx, Weber, and Foucault—was “Harvard at its best,” the report recommends that the sophomore curriculum be revised to include more empirical and contemporary works...
...Ahmad at his locker. He does track in the spring; she sings in the girls' glee club. As students go at Central High, they are "good." His religion keeps him from drugs and vice, though it also holds him rather aloof from his classmates and the studies on the curriculum. She is short and round and talks well in class, pleasing the teacher. There is an endearing self-confidence in how compactly her cocoa-brown roundnesses fill her clot! hes, which today are patched and sequinned jeans, worn pale where she sits, and a ribbed magenta shorty top both lower...
...said Gomes. “They’ll deal with obvious fires, the obvious difficulties along the way, but nothing long-term.”Still, other professors believe the two leaders will concentrate on carrying through unrealized aspects of Summers’ vision, including curriculum reform and the continuing development of Allston property.“I think what is important, as both of them feel, is to not be immobilized but to move forward on accepted initiatives and goals,” said Henry Rosovksy, who himself served as a dean of FAS and was summoned...