Word: curriculums
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...addition to acting as a formal liaison between women-centered organizations and the central administration, the director is also charged with creating a leadership curriculum geared toward promoting the development of female student leaders...
...from Shakespeare and history classes to blocking group and clothing choices. Nonetheless, ethics deserves its own dedicated space for concentrated, intensive study, and future students who most need such a space may not find their way into one unless Harvard mandates it as part of the new curriculum. The Committee considered complementing the tripartite distributions requirements with such a course—one that would not expect people to walk away with answers but would attempt to “contribute to students’ ethical and intellectual development by providing an occasion to reflect self-critically on what they...
...That is not to say the grading system should be changed. Critics of both the grading system and the no-release policy simply have warped views of what a business education should be about. HBS uses an all-case study curriculum that stresses cooperation and group achievement. The school is also an invaluable place for students to gain useful connections for their future careers. To focus on individual achievement instead of the many intangibles that HBS offers outside of academics undermines HBS’s stated academic mission...
...yesterday’s meeting of the full Faculty, professors broadly supported replacing the Core Curriculum with a system of distributional requirements, though they did not a reach a consensus on what those requirements should look like.The General Education Committee formally presented its report to professors at the meeting, with Bass Professor of Government Michael J. Sandel introducing the committee’s recommendation that students should be required to take three courses in each of three distribution areas—the Arts and Humanities, Science and Technology, and the Study of Societies.In the report, the committee also proposed...
Professors and students criticized the Report on General Education for its lack of specific curricular requirements at an open forum last night.While speakers generally endorsed the “flexible” new program intended to replace the current Core Curriculum, many expressed concern that the proposed program offered too little direction for students and failed to live up to its potential as a seminal statement of education principle.The event, which filled the Faculty Room of University Hall, represented the first formal opportunity for response to the report since its release earlier this month.Comments echoed the internal debates...