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...attain, for both undergraduate and graduate students alike. The problem, which hopefully we can all acknowledge, is that putting off the definitive staffing of courses until after the term has already started is inconsistent with that goal. Quality instruction requires preparation, often preparation that is very specific to the syllabus of the course. In humanities and social science courses, for example, this preparation often involves mastery of numerous texts or similar materials. A hastily assembled or filled out teaching staff cannot possibly have adequate or uniform preparation. At the same time, graduate students who are unable to plan their academic...
...think ‘Veritas’ is just a motto. Many don’t pursue the truth: they just pursue their own advancement,” Sulak says, adding that “the hidden syllabus here is that you must be successful, you must be great...
...could just as easily find this message in the syllabus to his course General Education 105, “The Literature of Social Reflection,” which reads, “we will try to compare various modes of social observation; and at the same time explore the ethical issues that confront… those ordinary people caught in a particular social crisis, and not least, those who try to make sense of what others initiate politically, struggle with psychologically, endure socially...
Percy also said that “a good magazine can be a good schoolroom,” and Coles took these words to heart as well. When he started teaching General Education 105, he crafted a syllabus that captured Percy’s values not only in its intentions, but also in its substance. Beginning with James Agee and Walker Evans’ photographic social history “Let us Now Praise Famous Men,” the reading list included works by Percy, Williams, Flannery O’Connor, Zora Neale Hurston, and an encyclopedia of other...
...always been so one-sided. Before 1984, when Feldstein took over the course, there was a unit on Radical Economics, as well as alternative sections in which students could do additional readings which critiqued the dominant models they learned in class. However, Feldstein removed Radical Economics from the syllabus and eliminated the alternative sections. Perhaps in an ideal world, there would only be one introductory economics course including the mainstream models and its critiques, a course in which both conservatives and liberals would be challenged by opposing viewpoints. However, since Feldstein is unwilling to change Ec 10, it is clear...