Word: taught
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Assistant Professor of Neurology Shahram Khoshbin points to the Currier House seminar he taught last year. Not only does he boast that he taught the class to a small group of students, but among them was Baird Professor of Science Dudley R. Herschbach, who even attended class the night after he won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry...
...Khoshbin, who taught Currier 127, "Disorders of the Brain and Behavior," the seminars exemplify one of the few ways the house system fulfills its original intellectual mission. Meeting with tutors in the communal environment of a residential house "increases the collegiate aspect of the course," he says...
...seminars, which are taught by members of the houses' Senior Common Rooms, officially are part of the General Education Department, the Core Curriculum's predecessor, which offers courses that do not fit into the guidelines of any one department...
Khoshbin, who has taught painting, drawing, and calligraphy at Currier House in addition to his seminar, says his course attempted to integrate art and science by studying the links between the brain and creativity. His course on disorders of the brain is designed to give all students a good conceptual background in both arts and sciences, as is the Core, he says...
...writings, Quigley likens astrology to medical diagnosis. A horoscope, she insists, "can tell you more about yourself than a psychiatrist can tell you after many hours of consultations on his couch." Bemoaning astrology's "lost respectability," Quigley once predicted that stargazing eventually "will be taught in the schools and colleges and will be considered a profession on a par with medicine...