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...Religion 1529, “Personal Choice and Global Transformation,” this year’s version, and furrow my brow. If the titles don’t have enough pangs of similarity, then the content certainly does: Many of the same lecturers are on both syllabi, and if compared to one another without reference to the course title, the course descriptions— an informal poll of my friends revealed—are virtually interchangeable...
...also easy to criticize his guest lecturers, homogeneously left-wing types who have become the hallmark of Palmer’s classes. In 1529, he labels them “relevant practitioners” of personal choice. One is Noam Chomsky, on both the Religion 1528 and 1529 syllabi, who will (shockingly) not be speaking about linguistics, in which he holds his PhD. Palmer also selected Howard D. Zinn as a lecturer, whose People’s History of the United States takes great care to omit any modicum of praise for Western civilization, when one might choose from...
Chestnut said placing syllabi for all classes and videotapes of the first lecture for larger classes on course web pages, as well as ensuring that actual lectures— rather than discussions of logistics—take place during shopping period would be improvements to the process...
...There’s nothing inherently wrong with a third party site on which students choose to create a personal network,” Davis said. “If there was a third party site on which students uploaded course syllabi or videos, that could potentially become a property issue with the University...
...address ways the program could “reflect national needs related to homeland security” and assure that the area studies centers “reflect diverse perspectives and the full range of views.” Only strong opposition defeated clauses allowing the board to review syllabi and course materials, but those provisions could make it into the final version of the bill...