Word: curriculums
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However, some criticized Kain's shift away from the traditional planning curriculum. Francois C.D. Viglier, professor of City and Regional Planning and department chairman from 1969 to 1971, explains, "Planning is not a bunch of numbers. It deals basically with human beings and how they deal with space...
...logical response to the strife that has surrounded CRP for the past five years. Since John F. Kain, professor of Economics, took over as chairman of CRP in 1975, the department has taken an unabashedly nontraditional approach to urban planning. He shook up the basic curriculum required of all first-year planning students who entered Gund Hall. Heavily steeped in economic and political analysis, the courses included two semesters of quantitative methods as well as offerings such as "Economic Analysis for Planning," "Urban Growth and Spatial Structure," and "Public Finance and Budgeting...
Despite Kain's assertions, the American Planning Association (APA) last spring delayed renewal of its recognition of CRP because its reviewing committee thought the department did not have enough professional planners on its faculty and its core curriculum was not sufficiently "planning-oriented...
John Paul also was hopeful about ecumenical relations in his remarks in Kenya, where Catholics and Protestants are engaged in joint Bible translation, now quite common elsewhere in the world. They have also prepared an innovative ecumenical curriculum for religion classes in the schools, and are engaged in joint evangelistic work. Christian divisions are a "scandal to the world," John Paul told a meeting of non-Catholic leaders in Nairobi. "Especially to the young churches in mission lands. Truly the credibility of the Gospel message and of Christ himself is linked to Christian unity." In struggling to remove this "scandal...
That approach, known as "writing across the curriculum," was first pioneered at Minnesota's Carleton College. It has been applied since 1977 by more than 60 faculty members at Beaver College, in Glenside, Pa. There, students practice writing in history, psychology (as they observe and describe the "Mama Rat" experiment in the lab), even mathematics classes, where they write word problems. So far, 400 schools and colleges have asked Beaver for details of the program. Observes Beaver Professor Elaine Maimon, 35: "In freshman composition, English teachers used to teach their favorite works of literature. We were not respecting...