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...effort necessary to master subjects that cannot be easily popularized, like math and chemistry. They also fear that television teaching may stimulate excessive viewing among a generation that watches too much TV as it is. The prospect of ten-year-old tube junkies using TV Guide as a syllabus is unsettling to parents who believe that serious learning comes from books. Teachers who have used one form or another of prime-time education, however, regard TV not as a "vast wasteland," in the memorable epithet of former Federal Communications Commissioner Newton Minow, but as a vast resource waiting...
...didn't have a syllabus until very late this year, but I think it is a very good idea to request them." William Klemperer, Erving Professor of Chemistry and head of Chemistry 4, said Tuesday. But he added he would be very cautious in declaring too rigid a grading policy in the course...
...institute a policy requiring all courses to distribute, on the first day of class, a detailed syllabus outlining all paper and reading assignments, lecture topics and examination...
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...
...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...