Word: curriculums
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...20th century. Farooqi, who admits to not being the most diligent student, would drift into daydreams inspired by the stories in class, imagining, he says, that he was a demon "running around with a tree trunk and clobbering humans with it." In university, he frequently shirked his prescribed engineering curriculum for a pile of dog-eared folk tales scrounged from secondhand bookstores. The mythological universe that his favorite hero had led him into was simply too intoxicating to leave...
Current freshmen and sophomores will most likely graduate under the Core Curriculum, the professor in charge of implementing its replacement said at yesterday’s full Faculty meeting. Moving away from earlier plans that would have brought the Classes of 2010 and 2011 under the general education program, Jay M. Harris said the new curriculum would not go into effect until fall 2009. That means that the Class of 2013 would be the first to enter under the new requirements. Harris said the committee expects to have a small number of courses available to students in the fall...
...American institution of a different sort, the Bronx Bombers bear many parallels to our eminent university. The Yankees just entered a self-declared “transition period” after concluding a seventh consecutive season without a world championship. Harvard, meanwhile, has struggled to define its new undergraduate curriculum and has not seen the top of its own league’s standings (at least in U.S. News and World Report) in a couple of years. Annual student satisfaction surveys unerringly place it near-bottom compared to peer schools. It bears asking, then: Have we and the Yanks suffered...
...doing so, she addressed the kind of skepticism Han speaks of.“Harvard has always had enormous strengths in the arts—and never more so than today—but we have had equally strong ambivalence about the role of performance and practice in the curriculum and in the life of the University,” Faust wrote in a campus-wide announcement.But such legitimation of “the arts” may not even be necessary. For some individuals most closely acquainted with VES, the concentration is not simply about artistic creation...
That's also the idea behind the ISB. The brainchild of Rajat Gupta, former head of McKinsey & Co., the school is funded by some of the country's biggest corporations. Kellogg, Wharton and the London Business School helped design the curriculum. Tuition for the one-year M.B.A. degree is about $43,000, and most of its 400 or so students pay full fare, although there are some scholarships. The majority of the faculty are U.S.-educated Indians, many of whom were teaching in the U.S. and have been lured home with salaries of about $75,000, five times what...