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...about this community will have practical benefits, and will help us better define ourselves as a nation," he says. Since 2002, the KEA network has gathered 5,000 expats and "friends of New Zealand" to its database; by Friday, 14,000 Kiwis living in 128 countries had completed the survey...
...time when the curricular review’s boldest initiative has been to call for the creation of year-long, integrative survey courses to incentivize commonalities between what students learn, it should be a moment for History 10a to wax, not wane...
Several weeks ago, New York Times columnist John Tierney took Harvard’s History Department to task for failing to offer a comprehensive survey course on, among other things, the American Revolution. (Instead, its faculty offer a freshman seminar on the Declaration of Independence; a class that compares the American and Haitian revolutions; and “Pursuits of Happiness: Ordinary Lives in Revolutionary America?...
...addition, the UC passed a bill recommending an increase in the training provided to first-time teaching fellows (TFs), and also passed a report on the results of an online survey polling students on what they would like to incorporate in a women’s center...
...courses that are less interesting to teach than others; for obvious reasons, many faculty members prefer to teach courses in their niches. But these preferences do not excuse curricular holes in educating students broadly and with necessary foundational knowledge. History 10a aims to be “a survey of Mediterranean and West European societies from Greco-Roman antiquity to the Scientific Revolution.” Most students entering the College have had little formal exposure to such comprehensive material—and many want such an exposure. According to the CUE Guide, of the 143 students who enrolled...