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...proposed new curriculum is refreshingly different. In a heartening effort at clarity, it abandons disciplines altogether, relying instead on zesty categories of subject matter to guide instruction. Faculty who have difficulty mounting courses in “Literature and Arts” without straying into the hinterlands of relevance will surely fare better when faced with its replacements, “Culture and Belief,” and the deliciously opaque “Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding...
Asking students to work across disciplines might be fairly straightforward; our malleable intellects lend themselves to mixing academic media, sometimes even by design. But demanding the same flexibility from a graduate student TF writing a dissertation on, say, designing the American city or something, is an entirely different matter. Academics are trained in specific disciplines defined by their methodologies, not in the content-oriented subject headings of the proposed new curriculum. The experience of the Core demonstrated that to expect professors to teach “modes of inquiry” was to expect too much. Expecting the new curriculum...
...discipline to keep within the confines of its guiding philosophy. The new Core offered by the Task Force, by virtue of its opacity and over-ambitious crossing of disciplinary lines, is on the same all-too-familiar trajectory. Prospective students be warned; it’s only a matter of time before you, too, will be shopping Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding 20, “Designing the American City...
...play each other almost everyday,” Denenberg said, “so it’s just a matter of who plays a little better that particular...
...ability to stay calm under fire may well have saved the older prince from undignified skirmishes with the paparazzi during subsequent years in the navy and since 2001 as a working royal. No matter the prodigious number of cucumber sandwiches he nibbles for Queen and Country, or however skilfully he promotes British business as the U.K.'s Special Representative for International Trade and Investment (public records show he undertook 446 engagements in 2006, excluding business meetings), Elizabeth's second son never shakes off his tabloid image as a feckless playboy - an image photographers find profitable to reinforce...