Word: program
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Finally, Harvard is notorious for its teachers' aversion to teaching, not to mention their aversion to students. Under Bok, a strong supporter of Danforth Center research into teaching methods, the Medical School instituted New Pathways, a highly successful program emphasizing student-teacher interaction in small groups. Similar progress is badly needed throughout the University...
...undergraduate program is riddled with problems--inadequate advising, inaccessible professors, clueless teaching fellows, to name a few. But most students of the College would agree that Public Enemy Number One is the big, bad ineffectual Core Curriculum which, ironically, has been praised as one of Bok's major accomplishments...
...names economic historian Henry Rosovsky Dean of the Faculty. Rosovsky will become the father of the Core curriculum program...
...current General Education program has strayed from its original intentions. The idea of a well-rounded, liberal arts program has been perverted by a proliferation of upper and lower level Gen Ed offerings. Departmental bypasses have further eroded the liberal arts concept...
There seem to be two substantive ways in which the program could be reformed. A stiff core curriculum could be introduced or all requirements could be abolished. The task force on core curriculum chose the first course. It proposed this past fall that all students should be required to pick one course out of eight offered in biology, physics, math, non-western cultures, modern social analysis and political and moral philosophy, and one out of 12 in western culture. Other recommendations include the abolition of the language requirement and continuation of an expository writing requirement...