Word: curriculums
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...America’s Intellectual Powerhouse’ on the screen, and everybody says Harvard. Everybody,” says Hesel, a principal of the Art & Science Group, a consulting firm that specializes in marketing for higher education. “We put up ‘Free-Choice Curriculum,’ and most people guess Brown...
...look no further than our classrooms to see this tragedy unfolding. With even the best lecturers, truth comes across as an inert object in a fixed world. We are turned into empty receptacles for this pre-packaged knowledge, which we are then expected to regurgitate upon command. Implicitly, our curriculum dictates that we passively accept this rigid veritas and, correspondingly, the way the world is. Theoretically, the discussion section that accompanies so many of our lecture courses is the place for this veritas to come alive. It is our chance to challenge “the truth?...
...committee had a “desire to set out a curriculum that expands opportunities—not requirements—for students,” the report states in explanation for its refusal to mandate these classes. “The committee did not feel comfortable proposing, as [a replacement to the Core, a system] that would provide even less choice...
...suggested framework for general education will provide undergraduates with far greater ownership over shaping their academic experience and the opportunity to create a personalized curriculum drawing classes from the entire course catalog. But with fewer requirements to ensure breadth of study, that physics concentrator risks missing out on many areas of the academic spectrum normally afforded by a liberal arts education...
...Core will be voted on by the close of the academic year.The report proposes a hybrid system of distribution requirements and broad “Courses in General Education” to allow students greater freedom of choice in course selection. Designed as an improvement on the fragmented Core Curriculum, the new recommendations reduce requirements to three general areas—Arts and Humanities, Study of Societies, and Science and Technology. Yet as the report undergoes further debate in faculty meetings and student forums in coming weeks, questions remain about the practical application of its recommendations...