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...PROPOSED Core Curriculum is a long overdue move in the direction of academic consolidation at Harvard, but it does fail only because it fails to go far enough toward establishing a prescribed syllabus for freshmen...
...apiece and had started on a bottle of No-Doz. But in spite of the caffeine in our blood, we started to lose touch. As I passed a tractor-trailer near Jacksonville my eyelids forced their way shut, and I dreamed that a giant copy of a history course syllabus was sailing down the road behind me, trailing our Pontiac. I awoke some three inches from a guard rail. Namo drove for a while after that, but he, too, insisted on taking split-second naps at the wheel. I still cannot remember how we got to Fort Lauderdale alive...
This attitude of attempting to cope actively with conflicts is what Fisher says he hopes to teach his students in Soc Sci 174, a course sporting a hefty 72-page reading list and syllabus. Most of those pages contain detailed explanations of what students are expected to learn about particular diplomatic and conflict-solving techniques, such as breaking conflicts into bite-sized pieces, and making it easier for the other guy to do what you want him to. Soc Sci 174 is supposed to help bridge the gap between the theory and practice of international conflict-solving by teaching students...
Bruce Patton '77, who took the course last year and is now its head sectionman, says Fisher recognized these problems and has tried to correct them this time around. Patton and four other students spent much of the summer working with Fisher to revise and improve the course. The syllabus was expanded, the reading list changed, the problem sets clarified and the discussion sections discarded in favor of a second Fisher lecture each week. Patton says the weaknesses last year--the first time the course was offered--stemmed from organizational problems, not from inherent flaws in Fisher's negotiating theory...
...those in Fine Arts 171 and anyone else who is attracted to "spots and dots" (as the 171'ers affectionately refer to modern art.) Graphics I at 168 Newbury has an exhibit of Josef Albers who is almost sure to pop up on the 171 syllabus soon. Albers is well known for his squares within squares and his subtle tonal differentiation from square to square. The show includes these works called "Homage to the Square", but it features more prominently his "Mitered Squares" done in the last two years of his life. Again using subtle coloring and precise geometric figures...