Word: curriculums
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...group like Silk Road—the ongoing Harvard College Curricular Review had been, and still is, debating the future of interdisciplinary and international study at the College. Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby, who has long been a proponent of international study in the new curriculum, said in the March press release that the residency had come “at just the right moment...
...intriguing step is the possible creation of a new class in the Core Curriculum that would focus on the Silk Road. Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History Mark C. Elliott, co-teacher of Historical Studies A-13 “China: Traditions and Transformations,” has said that he and Shelemay want to lead such a course together...
...Gordon thinks the Silk Road residency is coming at a time when the shifting nature of the Core Curriculum may put the values of the Project at stake for the community at large: “The new curriculum is not likely to have a requirement like Foreign Cultures, nor a Historical Studies requirement per se…so a program like this is great...
...cautions, however, that really making the SRP a part of the curriculum may be a challenge...
...authors also contribute to the ongoing debate over a “great books” curriculum, although on opposite sides. DiSalvo attacks Harvard’s Western-centrism, pointing out that the limited range of Moral Reasoning classes makes it appear that “the world has known 15 people capable of moral reasoning.” DiSalvo insists that Harvard’s courses must recognize the “varying, fascinating, and beautiful (and sometimes dangerous!)” systems of morality that occur beyond the Western world, especially in terms of religious beliefs...