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Assembly
LXI: The Undergraduate Curriculum at Yale
Thursday, October 24 - Saturday,
October 26, 2002
Assembly Chair Marc B. Lockhart '84
Executive Summary
Keynote Presentation:
Professor Donald Brown
Professor Donald Brown, the Philip R. Allen
Professor of Economics and Director of Graduate Studies in Economics
presented a personal perspective on the curriculum review that helped
delegates stretch their own thinking about alternative possibilities.
Professor Brown brought to his keynote both his long experience
at Yale and his experience partcicipating in an extensive review
of the undergraduate curriculum during his time as a tenured faculty
member at Stanford University.
After reviewing a series of past ideas about
liberal education, Professor Brown proposed that today's circumstances
and today's students demand more structure in the curriculum rather
than less. At the centerpiece of such a curriculum would be the
expectation that most students would construct a full double major,
thus leading them to investigate in real depth two entirely separate
disciplines, ways of thinking and bodies of knowledge.
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