Word: curriculums
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...response to “UC Slates Curricular Review Meeting” (news, Feb. 27), I would suggest that Harvard’s interim president adopt a simple interim solution to reform of the core curriculum: vastly expand the number of departmental courses that count towards the core requirements...
...current Harvard College students will experience a reformed curriculum. As a parent of a member of the class of 2008, I was briefed by the faculty about the pending plans to reform the core curriculum during the September 2004 freshman orientation. Today, with curriculum reform still being discussed and with the resignations of President Lawrence Summers and Dean William Kirby, it is certain that my daughter will enter her junior year, and most likely her senior year, with no curriculum reform in place at Harvard College...
Immediate curriculum reform for Harvard students is necessary because the current core curriculum has become an impediment to a liberal arts education. The distinctions drawn between core and departmental courses are inexplicable and irrational. My daughter’s multidisciplinary bioethics course does not count towards the core requirement of Moral Reasoning. Her history of science course on the nineteenth century social response to Darwinian evolution does not count as a History A or B. Her three demanding, higher-level French courses do not count towards either the Foreign Cultures or the Literature and Arts requirements of the core. Instead...
...sufficient reason to neglect to certify more departmental courses in these areas.The process of vetting departmental courses to gain a spot on the Core list has traditionally been initiated by professors or students. One of several review committees, comprised of faculty, then reviews the course’s curriculum and requirements. This spring professors and students, as well as departmental administrators, College administrators, and the Core Office itself, must all identify potential courses and advocate for their certification. The review committees should still fully evaluate courses to make sure that they are consistent with the tenets of the various Core...
...leave for the academic year, could not be reached for comment.Teskey’s worries stem in large part from the limited time an undergraduate has to receive an education.“It’s always important to remember that if you put something on the curriculum you have to take something else off,” he says.Professor of the Practice of Literary Criticism James Wood shares this concern. He says that a deep understanding of great texts is the best way to teach “the evaluative power that one is trying to train...