Word: extracurricular
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...attempt to transfuse the vitality of the endeavors that students pursue outside the classroom into what is an oftentimes-inert academic experience is ill-conceived, to say the least. Instead of enlivening students’ academic experience, as the Task Force hopes, we fear that it will deaden the extracurricular scene...
...Extracurricular activity is a Harvard success story,” claims the Task Force on General Education’s latest report, and rightly so. To capitalize on that success, the report goes on to reason, why not develop an initiative to “help students see how what they learn in class informs what they do outside of class and vice versa?” Witness the birthing of “activity-based learning,” the misbegotten pedagogical stepchild of the recent curricular review...
Undergraduates spend the time they have outside of class in hundreds of different ways, in the pursuit of almost as many goals. Nevertheless, whether it be to find a passion, to explore a profession, to make lasting friendships, or simply to indulge a whim, extracurricular pursuits are an escape from academics, a sphere free from the demands of professors and the pressures of a transcript grade, a sphere in which one can learn self-reliance and life skills that cannot be taught in the ivory tower...
...that politically incorrect and sexually oppressive of me? Oops, let’s rewind then. What I meant to say is this: the extracurricular seminar Female Sexuality is back, and last week dozens of Harvard women congregated in the Women’s Center to be briefed about the logistics of the course, how to apply, and how to get sexually liberated...
Many students “regard their extracurricular life as separate from their academic experience,” the report reads. “We believe that we should find ways of bringing those aspects of undergraduate life closer together...