Word: syllabus
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Some literary critics argue that a book does not have artistic merit if it does not require careful reading. True, this book is not bound to show up on any English course syllabus. However, this book certainly has value; if bogged down by work or by worries, this book is a perfect way to make you smile at life...
...students, in their impertinence, dared to question the personal implications of their professor's language and of his exclusion and inclusion of certain texts in the syllabus. Such a personal interest, magnified as a public interest, became from the Right a "politically correct" interest...
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...issues now being raised -- although they are presented under the bland guise of syllabus reform -- are thus too important to be left to teachers, school administrators and social commentators alone. Everyone deserves a say, for the customs, beliefs and principles that have unified the U.S., however imperfectly, for more than two centuries are being challenged with a ferocity not seen since the Civil...
...women, blacks or other groups. Some of this has provoked flare-ups, notably at Stanford University, which in 1988 decided to revamp its first-year course, Western Culture, in response to critical pressure. Some students and faculty members at the elite, ethnically diverse institution had complained that the course syllabus offered only the writings of white males. The prospect of one or more of these -- Plato? Shakespeare? -- being kicked out to make room for women and minorities caught traditionalists' attention, as did a demonstration at which students chanted "Hey, hey, ho, ho, Western Culture...