Word: syllabus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...members did not converge on Hunt Hall ready to attack Professor Bruening if he refused to change his course topic. About a hundred members did come to the class meeting and one read to statement clarifying Afro's objections to the course. Afro did not protest the original course syllabus only because of ideological differences. The syllabus indicated that the material taught in the course might directly endanger the lives of black people who, because they live in ghettos, could easily become involved in a "riot". The syllabus offered city planners a chance to study "the spatial relationships within...
...acting dean of the Design School has circulated a memorandum which states that the instructor of the "riot control" course "erred" in circulating a course syllabus which had not been approved by the Design School, it was learned yesterday...
Afro did not force Bruening to change the syllabus. Bruening understood their objections to it. He acknowledged that he had been mistaken in describing the course as he had. Meeting with Afro and several Design School students in the afternoon, he worked out a new program which was acceptable to everyone, including himself...
Academic freedom is obviously of great importance. But it was not the issue here. Bruening understood that it was more important for him to come to a friendly understanding with Afro--which he did--than to shelter himself behind his academic dignity and refuse to change his syllabus...
Keeney added that if the seminar had been given for credit this year, its syllabus would have included more pre-World War II writers since the seminar instructors know these authors best. The seminar would also have been more rigorous. As it is, the course will be very loosely structured, on the order of a graduate seminar. Students can suggest whatever topics if discussion they wish. "We're as much babes in the woods as any of the students on the subject," Keeney said...