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...assigning themselves grades, or studying the “deeper meanings” of Little Bo Beep and Humpty Dumpty. They also invented obituaries for their teachers—“not [one] had a peaceful passing,” he added. Never confining his teaching to a syllabus, McCourt said, “I had no methods. I shot from the hip...I was able to seize things that allowed me to survive in the classroom.” Jokes aside, McCourt reminded his audience, which included many educators, that “the kids can sense your...
...This chameleon critique means that, should a student have the temerity to defend the United States on certain grounds, Professor Scott will always be prepared to shift the rationale for criticism. It does not appear to matter that the seminar’s original objective, as printed in its syllabus, was to discuss U.S. power under the framework of international law. It is deeply troubling that an academic like Professor Scott would both eschew objectivity and undercut independent thinking in order to indoctrinate students with anti-American sentiments. Even more unsettling is that she teaches in Australia...
...Core credit, he or she should be able to; a final exam adds almost no value over a term paper. This small change would open up whole departments to students. For instance, nearly every English course would count for Literature and Arts A or C. Being more liberal with syllabus requirements and actively seeking out departmental courses would add still more departments. Such a broad expansion of the Core, for which this page has consistently petitioned, will lead to smaller courses, more options, and more satisfied students...
...tend towards those activities which emphasize relevance and applicability. Put both in a room and every class is like the eternal recurrence of an awkward first date. I put before you Mahtani’s Law of General Education: “Any Core class, keeping the same professors, syllabus, and TF, would be better if formulated as a non-Core class...
...curriculum, the new committee should group courses that satisfy a particular requirement into two tiers. The first will contain all of the various departmental courses that satisfy a given general education requirement. These will be determined based on an evaluation of the course’s subject material and syllabus to make sure that the course matches up with the guiding philosophy of a given area of general education. We expect that the vast majority of courses that count for general education credit will be in this tier...