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It’s certainly fitting that the proposed new curriculum describes its categories in terms of the meaningless jibber-jabber that can easily turn a section into purgatory. “Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding?? sounds like the kind of filler one uses to impress a typically disinterested teaching fellow (TF) when one hasn’t done any of the assigned reading. Courses in this category will leave students able to analyze “primary texts and/or works of art…in the context of a theoretical framework.” This...
...biggest change from the report’s most recent version, the Task Force on General Education’s proposal now requires two courses that address the humanities. A new category on “Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding?? would teach students how to interpret works of art and literature, while a category called “Culture and Belief” would place those works in a social context...
Kagan said that the views expressed in the deans’ letter are shared by the “vast majority” of the legal profession, and that Stimson’s comments demonstrate an “uninformed understanding?? of the basic precepts of American...
...reason democracy works in the United States is that we have a consensus about fundamental political values (equal rights for all to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness). They are based on a shared understanding??accurate or not— of our history...
...government sees how globalization has fundamentally altered our approach to international affairs, security, and development. Yet globalization has also transformed the scope and reach of religion. The energies of religious ideas and movements race through the circuits of today’s communication revolution. The possibilities of human understanding??and misunderstanding—are vastly amplified...