Word: syllabus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Robert H. Chapman, director of the Loeb and professor in the English department, now teaches English 160A. "Modern Dance," English 125B, "Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama," covers a syllabus similar to Brustein's suggested classical drama course...
...PROPOSED Core Curriculum is a long overdue move in the direction of academic consolidation at Harvard, but it does fail only because it fails to go far enough toward establishing a prescribed syllabus for freshmen...
...objection to the Core as an illiberal measure is a specious one. Although a faculty-penned syllabus would probably exclude broadening courses on topics of concern to many students such as Afro-American history, there is no reason to expect that students not already involved in such areas will spend course time on them within a curriculum free of restrictions. Without restrictions, students will pursue their inclinations until classes become homogeneous, at which point confrontation and discourse will cease...
...apiece and had started on a bottle of No-Doz. But in spite of the caffeine in our blood, we started to lose touch. As I passed a tractor-trailer near Jacksonville my eyelids forced their way shut, and I dreamed that a giant copy of a history course syllabus was sailing down the road behind me, trailing our Pontiac. I awoke some three inches from a guard rail. Namo drove for a while after that, but he, too, insisted on taking split-second naps at the wheel. I still cannot remember how we got to Fort Lauderdale alive...
Bruce Patton '77, who took the course last year and is now its head sectionman, says Fisher recognized these problems and has tried to correct them this time around. Patton and four other students spent much of the summer working with Fisher to revise and improve the course. The syllabus was expanded, the reading list changed, the problem sets clarified and the discussion sections discarded in favor of a second Fisher lecture each week. Patton says the weaknesses last year--the first time the course was offered--stemmed from organizational problems, not from inherent flaws in Fisher's negotiating theory...