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...chairman Stephen Ozment, professor of History, the committee decided to eliminate non-Western history as an area of study, arguing that only five of the 27 tutors are trained in non-Western fields...
...Ozment says that the department does not believe that tutors can provide useful instruction in areas with which they are unfamiliar. One tutor points out, however, that while it is difficult to teach an unfamiliar topic, there is no reason to assume that non-Western or "Third World" topics are any less familiar to a Medieval historian than the subtleties of Freudian theory--a new topic under the recent proposals...
Over the past four years, only five out of 47 history tutors specialized and felt competent in a non-Western field, Steven E. Ozment, professor of History and head tutor, said yesterday. "We are giving the course a lot more focus and making it more sound pedagogically," Ozment said, adding. "The revision gives a tutor more freedom to teach in the area of his or her competence...
Steven E. Ozment, professor of History, will offer Historical Study B-12, "The Protestant Reformation," next spring. He said yesterday the course will examine, among other things, the variety of causes sparking a revolutionary movement...
...Ozment said he is now transforming his current course, History 1294, "Reformation Europe: 1450-1650," into the Core course. The new class will "deal more with social, cultural and urban history rather than intellectual history," he added...