Word: curriculums
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...contrast, the recent report from the Committee on General Education attempts to satisfy the supporters of both foundational knowledge and a flexible curriculum through the use of subtly varying levels of requirement, recommendation, and opportunity...
...April 2004 report abstained from recommending a firm curriculum and the March 2005 draft report laid out recommendations with very little discussion of their justification...
...approach to people who either are at risk for losing their job [or] have been terminated,” Joyce Country, a social worker with the program, wrote in an e-mail. She also emphasized the program’s unique approach to job rehabilitation. “The curriculum is based on Emotional Intelligence,” she wrote. According to Country, PEP has strongly impacted the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate nation in South Dakota “by providing a resource to people to help them achieve success.” She said that PEP plans...
...much as Summers focused on “the rising salience of scientific ventures,” a frequent refrain of his presidency, he gave equal space to “affirm the importance of the arts and humanities as critical foundations of a college curriculum and vital areas for scholarship and creative expression.” Many humanities professors have expressed concern that the focus on science in Allston will come at the expense of the University’s commitment to their academic interests...
...otherwise, the coherent vision that the committee has long labored to craft will be lost amidst the chaotic competition of individual faculty interests.The committee’s recommendations strike a difficult but effective balance between stressing subject matter over the “methods” of the Core Curriculum while simultaneously emphasizing flexibility in course selection above all else. A common refrain from critics of the Core has been that Harvard students can fulfill distribution requirements by taking very specific classes (a class on the Cuban Revolution 1956-1971, for instance, satisfies a Historical Studies B requirement). The Core?...