Word: modeli
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...result is that, as under the Gen Ed system, students devote about half their courses to their concentration, eight to the Core, and the remaining quarter to electives. But unlike in Gen Ed, the student with a sincere desire not only to learn modes of inquiry, but also to gain an educated person's familiarity with a subject outside his major--be it Fine Arts 13, History 71, or Shakespeare--must do so by sacrificing two of a precious eight elective slots. These slots are also expected to suffice for truly far-flung intellectual exploration, such as cross-registration, freshman...
...Core planners' major argument--that Core courses teach "modes of inquiry" and "habits of mind" rather than mechanically transmitting a body of facts--has some merit. Surely these modes are useful. But the great fallacy in the Core as implemented so far is that the two approaches--the "mode of inquiry" and the survey course--are somehow mutually exclusive. They are not, and a well-taught survey course invariably transmits a case study in intellectual approach along with the working knowledge of a field that makes such an approach meaningful. For evidence, Core planners should look to their own most...
...stepped-up criticism is attributable both to the movement's temperamental righteousness and to its political immaturity. "Their power mode," says a top Republican strategist, "is not properly adjusted to governing. They are better at Molotov cocktailing." Moreover, New Right fund raisers have a professional stake in continuing conservative discontent. Says a White House aide: "Viguerie and company must keep their mailing lists activated through fear...
...Wireless Club has applied to the Undergraduate Council for a grant of $470 that would enable the Club to purchase a 2-meter, all-mode transceiver to make short-distance communications to the families cadets easier. A decision on the grant will be made tomorrow at the Council meeting...
...melancholy Good Morning, Midnight in 1939 was long gone. She spent most of their time together drinking gin and sweet vermouth and babbling away in a pitiful parody of her once considerable style and charm. Plante spares us few of the clinical symptoms of her senility. Emblematic of the mode of his memoir is a page-long account of the time that Rhys fell into the toilet when he failed to lower the seat after using...