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...reports generated by the committee on general education have remained conspicuously vague. It is not for want of existing examples that HCC’s remain ill-defined. A quick perusal of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Courses of Instruction present a plethora of varied syllabi taught in an array of structures—lectures, sections, tutorials, seminars, and conference courses. Professors have invented, reinvented, started from scratch, and reinvented again different models for classroom instruction; no amount of armchair theorizing will replace nearly 400 years of evolutionary progress. While a general education program poses unique challenges that...
...translation turned out to be a success, eventually finding its way onto syllabi in universities across the country. But the shock waves that his father would send into the literary world three years later had not yet appeared on the radar. “I was still living in a kind of adolescent haze,” Nabokov writes, “unaware of...the full impact that my father’s presence had here, or would have upon world literature...
...knowledge and core knowledge, and in educating students about the historical, theoretical, and experimental aspects of their topics. Gen ed classes will never fulfill everyone’s expectations to the fullest. But by following the examples of a handful of model courses, both the minutiae of gen ed syllabi and the broad guiding principles of general education itself might actually satisfy those...
When asked in an interview why he chose this method of selection, Wegner alluded to two sides to shopping period. While students actively engage in evaluating classes, teachers, syllabi, and so forth, so too do professors take the time to select students in order to create the best learning environment for their class. Certain criteria such as good attendance and punctuality are among the values professors seek to uphold in the classroom. “Shopping period goes both ways,” Wegner argued. “The students are shopping and so are professors?...
...have received lots of positive feedback on the book. Hsu said that many of the essayists said they are pleased with the book, and that several professors have already added it to their syllabi. He said that young Asian Americans, their parents and non-Asian Americans alike have also responded favorably...