In addition to adequate coursework, there are special requirements for first- and second-year students.
Years ago at Emory University, where I work, a campus-life dean addressed new students with a terrible message: Don't go too far into coursework — there's so much more to do here!
Instructional leadership is a clear focus of both the internship and coursework, but there is some worry that important administrative and managerial skills have been de-emphasized.
She continued, " That's another lesson from my government coursework -- there is no way but forward...
Following the replacement of the Language A2 option with the group 1 Language and Literature offering for courses starting in summer 2011, the Language B syllabus has been changed: the coursework is now more rigorous, and at HL there is the compulsory study of two works of literature (although this is for comprehension rather than analysis and is only assessed through coursework).
As the prisoners successfully complete coursework, they earn credits that can be used toward "purchasing" music, movies and games, so there is an incentive to learn.
Although admissions standards are similar to those of other applicants to Mount Holyoke, and recent coursework is evaluated, there is "a recognition that previous academic records do not always define the current potential of an applicant".
Another teacher said their department has been left unable to print students' coursework because there are no working printers in the department.
There was no formal coursework, but there were tutorial sessions where I would sit, sometimes with a tutorial partner or with a teacher, and we would read and study.
He said he agreed that the pendulum "might have swung a little too far on coursework", but there was now a danger that "it will swing too far the other way".
Harvard's dean at the time refused to grant her a degree, even though she had done more of her coursework there, so she is a graduate of Columbia Law School.
