Word: curriculums
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According to a copy viewed by The Crimson last month, the draft report recommends replacing the current Core Curriculum, which includes 11 areas of study, with three broad subjects—Arts and Humanities, Study of Societies, and Science and Technology. Students will be required to take three courses in each of the two areas furthest from their concentration. Alternatively, students can take year-long “portal” courses to fulfill the requirement for one of the new general education divisions...
...flexibility that the recommendations are advocating for undergrads seems to me a very good thing. The particulars of how that gets framed and how it gets implemented within the curriculum is for the faculty at large to decide. But in principal, it seems to me the Gen Ed committee did a valiant job,” Buckler said...
Eight families are now suing the Dover school district over its decision to force science teachers to read the now-notorious intelligent design statement, correctly claiming that the statement amounts to a back-door inclusion of creationism in the science curriculum. Their stance is commendable, but it may not be enough to reverse the medieval trend of false science across the country; the Bush Administration now supports including both intelligent design and evolution in science curricula...
...choice between the rigor of a survey course on Western history or political philosophy and the promise of an easy “A” offered by the many peripheral courses is exactly why I loathe you, Core Curriculum. By not saying “you must take this,” you have caused us all to abandon those courses which look too hard, too legitimate. How many of your wards graduate without reading Aristotle or Shakespeare or Locke, but having learned of Mongolian architecture and samurai...
...only you had a voice, Core Curriculum, to declare, “Euthanize or reinvigorate me, but do neither half-way” to give your doctors of pedagogy recognition of what must be done...