Word: tatar
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...hope to keep the paper free," she said, although Deborah G. Tatar '81, another member of the collective, said yesterday that the paper may consider asking for contributions from its readership...
...course won't be purely focused on literary analysis," Tatar says, but will examine historical documents and discuss links between cultural developments in the Weimar Republic. These qualities of the course fulfill the Core requirement that Contexts of Culture courses be "interdisciplinary and cross-cultural...
...Core committee was convinced. They passed her course without reservation, though they urged her to offer the course in English translation. Tatar intends to make that shift in two years...
...Tatar credits the Core with inspiring a new interdisciplinary approach in the German Department. "Normally our courses emphasize literary analysis," Tatar observes, noting that her course will be one of "the first attempts in our department to bring in the historical and interdisciplinary dimensions...
...Core report instructs professors that their Core courses should not just present a set of facts but must provide a "basic literacy in major forms of intellectual discourse." Tatar says she prefers to avoid such inflated prose and is unsure how such notions apply to the humanities, or for that matter what intellectual discourse even means. But she believes she may have unintentionally conformed to the report's exhortation by "familiarizing students with two methodologies: historical and literary." Tatar shrugs. "I always thought the point of education in general was to teach people to think critically. If you want...