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...Female Body in Modern America” are typically out of luck.Yale has solved this problem already. That school’s application-required Directed Studies program offers freshmen the opportunity to take three, year-long general education courses in literature, philosophy, and history and politics. The course is taught entirely in small seminars, and prominent faculty sign up for the same reason they teach freshmen seminars here—the opportunity to make an indelible mark on the minds of young and eager learners. In total, 125 students this year enrolled in Yale’s program, accounting...
Required courses have captive audiences, and, as we have seen in our previous curricular reforms, short intellectual half-lives. If our new, foundational curriculum in the life, physical, and engineering sciences is to succeed, let it be because it is better conceived and better taught, not because any one part of it is compulsory. If new Courses in General Education are to make their mark in the lineage of great Harvard courses, let it be because they are great courses, not because they are mandated. If, as we expect, the study of the broader world and the languages spoken...
...schools to teach "intelligent design" in in science class. In the article, evolutionary biology professor Fiorenzo Facchini, who teaches at the University of Bologna, pondered whether the theory, which holds that the complexity of nature makes it, necessarily, the product of the design of a conscious creator, should be taught alongside discussions of Darwin. His conclusion: "This is not how science is done...
...Forbes attended Milton Academy, and after graduating from the College, he became a secondary school teacher. He returned to Harvard in 1945 to earn a master’s degree in music and taught at Princeton after graduation...
...He’s one of the few professors at Harvard that is good at what he does,” says Dean. “He’s a fascinating lecturer, and the class really taught me to read and interpret, and more importantly, how to think...