Word: curriculums
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...intellectual odyssey. In order to do so, however, changes must go beyond a mere shuffling of syllabi and involve fundamental changes in pedagogy. We believe this will require reform in Harvard’s stringent policies on hiring full-time teachers.On this page, we have repeatedly maligned the Core Curriculum and endorsed the recommendation of the review’s Committee on General Education, in which students would be able to fulfill general education requirements either through a distribution requirement or through broad and integrative Courses in General Education. For all its faults, however, the Core does play...
...called the porn curriculum, and it's quietly taking root in the ivory tower. A small but growing number of scholars are probing the aesthetic, societal and philosophical properties of smut in academic departments ranging from literature to film, law to technology, anthropology to women's studies. Those specialists argue that graphic sexual imagery has become ubiquitous in society, so it's almost irresponsible not to teach young people how to deal with it. "I was amazed by how much the students knew about pornography but how little they knew how to think about it," says Jay Clarkson, a graduate...
...Education, however, moral reasoning classes may be stricken from the catalog. The proposal stresses the importance of moral and ethical education, but stops short of a requirement. Everyone agrees that ethics are a vital part of any education, but there is disagreement about where they belong in the new curriculum. “The committee seemed to drift to a least-common-denominator approach,” writes Johnstone Family Professor Psychology Steven Pinker in an e-mail. The Generdal Education Committee was unable to agree on the right requirement, so they settled for no requirement at all.VERITASUntil the late...
...seems that everybody on campus has selected one Core Curriculum area that they feel we must keep in the new general education system. In particular, Moral Reasoning seems to have garnered a plethora of supporters who want to graft it onto the proposed system of three courses in each of three areas—the Study of Societies, Science and Technology, and the Arts and Humanities—which could be fulfilled with either departmental courses or broad interdisciplinary “Courses in General Education.” Despite their good intentions, we believe that there should...
...people who have to suffer and enjoy the new curriculum is us, and that’s what the next dean will be all about—the curricular review,” said Ben Click...