Administration of the College Curriculum

Contents: I. Historical. 1. Brief history of the college curriculum in the United States. 2. William Smith and the new education in Pennsylvania. 3. Thomas Jefferson and the elective system at the university of Virginia.  4. George Ticknor and the beginnings of the elective system at Harvard College.  5. Contemporary reforms at other colleges. 6. The evolution of the elective system at Harvard college.  7.  The evolution of the elective system in the small college. 8. Breakdown of the prescribed regime. II. Critical.  9.  Present requirements for the A.B. Degree. 10. Concentration and distribution of studies. 11. Relation between college studies and success in life. 12. Counting quality as well as quantity for college degree. 13. The need of a scientific distribution of college credits.  14. Our democratic American college: some conditions affecting the administration of its curriculum. Bibliography. Appendixes. Index.

“ The purpose of the series is to discuss and debate major trends and developments in the formative period of the subject when curriculum studies were still not an independent area of study.   

The following path–breaking volume s of the series offer a comprehensive introduction to, and overview of, the field: i. The curriculum by Franklin Bobbitt. Ii. The child and the curriculum by John Dewey. Iii. Child development and the curriculum by Arthur T. Jersild.  Iv. The primary curriculum by H. Hayward. v. The modern high school curriculum by P.E. & N.M. Belting. vi. Administration of the college curriculum by W.T. Foster. 

The collection covers the key points of dispute and areas of controversy within the field of curriculum studies and includes works of some of the leading writers of their times. “ (jacket)