Word: topical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...revision eliminates the currently required "Third World" topic from the year-long course, requiring instead that students take a half-course in either African. Asian. Latin American, or Near Eastern history...
...considerable improvement," Wallace T. MacCaffrey, Higginson Professor of History, said yesterday it would remedy flaws in the current tutorial program, "History 97 had become shapeless and students were baffled as to what it was all about," he said, adding that most history tutors felt uncomfortable teaching a non-Western topic because they were unfamiliar with...
...official revision, on which the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee of the department had been working for several months, states: "History 97 will take a topical, problem-oriented approach. Each tutorial will deal with four topics per year, each six weeks long. Topics will be structured to insure that a variety of sources and approaches is covered within each topic, and that topics deal with well-delineated problems, that is that they do not become 'mini-courses...
...still had a 25-page conclusion to write, and everything else to revise. Depression set in. She wished she were in History and Lit, which meant her thesis would not only be in, it would be at least 60 pages shorter. She wished she'd picked a useful topic instead of the epitome of esoterica: The effect of Cheddi Jagan's economic policies on bauxite production in Guyana in the early '60s. Guyana--it wasn't that she was bored with the topic so much as she was simply sick of hearing Jim Jones jokes from people who had asked...
...your fantastic report on the American Renewal, there was one topic you missed in the discussion of how to reform the system. I think we are in line for an overhaul of our federal superstructure, reducing the number of states to 20 or 30. It's something to look into, considering how many levels of government are required to deal with all the problems in the metropolitan areas of the country such as New York, Washington and Weirton-Steubenville...