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Holland undergoes the same learning process as his pupils. He tries, he becomes frustrated, somebody tells him off, he gets the message and feels better. This is the method of nearly every scene in Patrick Sheane Duncan's script--as reductive and repetitive as a bad teacher's syllabus. And kids will learn things from Mr. Holland: the connection between Bach's Minuet in G Major and the '60s hit Lover's Concerto, how a white man can teach natural rhythm to a black athlete, the sign-language symbol for asshole. But mostly they will learn that films avoid...
...prerogative to decide whether his or her interests might better be served in a history course, for instance, with a similar yet more engaging twist. Moreover, what purpose is served when Government 10: Public & Private--An Introduction to Political Philosophy, shares more than two-thirds of its reading syllabus with Moral Reasoning 50, but fails to qualify as a valid substitution...
...wrote on the syllabus, "NOTE: This course does not come with a government health warning, but it probably should...
...search the CUE Guide looking for a class with favorable--and less than difficult--ratings. But when you arrive, you find that 200 others have discovered the same thing. You can barely breathe, much less find a seat or a syllabus...
...final syllabus will not be available until the first class meeting tomorrow. But according to Berger, the requirements will be "fairly light." The course requires two seven-page papers and a final exam...