Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...History, if implemented, will be a giant step backwards into a past we have grown to regret--a past in which the history of an entire hemisphere was ignored in favor of our own, a past in which progressive universities were reviewed by Senate committees for daring to teach "dangerous" communist theory, and a past which still evokes shock among students schooled only by conventional high school history texts...
Ozment says that the department does not believe that tutors can provide useful instruction in areas with which they are unfamiliar. One tutor points out, however, that while it is difficult to teach an unfamiliar topic, there is no reason to assume that non-Western or "Third World" topics are any less familiar to a Medieval historian than the subtleties of Freudian theory--a new topic under the recent proposals...
...PROBLEMS DESCRIBED will be compounded by other proposed changes, such as the planned omission of subtopics on women in nineteenth century America, and Marxist theory. Though not popular among tutors, the "women in history" topic should be left as an alternative for those who wish to teach it. The symbolic gesture of removing the reading list on women from circulation is a very confusing signal from a department that claims to be open-minded...
...also encouraged law professors to teach courses at the College. Although only two professors teach full courses at the College, the dean sees the prospects for the future in this area...
Sacks will take a sabbatical next year and return to Harvard in 1982 to teach and write. Before becoming dean. Sacks taught courses on constitutional law and the legal process. His only major writing effort has been a 1400-page book on the legal process, which although it has yet to be published, is used by about 30 law schools...