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When "On Women" becomes a nine-credit foundations course for 360 students, it slips closer to the commodity status and has to be made "marketable." At the same time, its potential to radicalize the students through consciousness-raising and offering narratives of emancipation tends to be minimized. We are surrounded by calls to make the material more "palatable" and "less offensive." Interestingly, the language used in voicing such demands is derived from business culture and technology. Thus content selection follows a "shopping cart" model, tossing up tidbits of information to suit general interests of a diverse group of students. There is a marked suspicion of any intellectual challenge as from year to year we have been encouraged through student feedback to simplify and "dumb down" ...
... in his jeremiad on the ruins of the modern university; hence, in what follows I perform my ow... feedback to simplify and "dumb down" the syllabus. On a good day, this anti-intellectualism takes th..., community projects, and emphasis on history - each related to the three temporalities we try t...
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... of the certificate, the procedural history of this application and the present legislative re... a helpful overview of the origins of modern Islamic extremism including the founding and sprea...Counsel for the Ministers produced a syllabus for the US Naval War College listing him as an ins...
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The tourism industry in Malaysia has faced a new trend of Arab tourists' influx since year 2000. The Arabs spend the highest amount of expenses of RM 5,000.00 per trip. This has given a big benefit for the country's income. Unfortunately, Malaysia lacks psychological faculties, which is related to the language barriers to cater to Arab needs. The Deputy Tourism Minister has launched a programme to provide Arabic speaking students to serve in five star hotels in the city. This phenomenon clearly indicates a low concern of the tourism industry in providing skilful trainees in the tourism industry in Arabic language and at present there are no Arabic Language courses in tourism programmes to emphasize on the language skills at university level. This paper will try to share the importance o...
...Since the early history of business in the country, that is during the Mal... a foreign language elective subject in modern language faculty in higher learning institution. HHowever, the syllabus in Arabic communication is common. Thus, this pape...
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... of the certificate, the procedural history of this application and the present legislative re... a helpful overview of the origins of modern Islamic extremism including the founding and sprea...Counsel for the Ministers produced a syllabus for the US Naval War College listing him as an ins...
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... one speaks in order to be understood, and modern man would find simply incomprehensible the languag... a person--Teilhard was convinced that history has a direction and that the salvation accomplishe... and modern civilization" in the Syllabus of Errors, necessary, perhaps, in 1864, would not ...
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... in virtually every arena: politics, history, economics, and even religion. Out of this collisi...(1) The syllabus for the class consisted entirely of photocopied ou... language we outsiders can understand: the modern short story form. The lessons are subtle, ironic, ...
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.... The syllabus of courses gives an immersion in Christian culturee necessary for a modern person to understand the tremendous gift of Christ... Scripture, liturgy, theology, philosophy, history, and literature. What is stressed is the relevance...