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PHAN: Revise the Core Curriculum to Support Academic Exploration

PHAN: Revise the Core Curriculum to Support Academic Exploration

By Nhan Phan December 5, 2024

Navigating the course selection process during my first year, I constantly felt lost in the barrage of restrictions and requirements placed upon me. The excitement I originally had for exploring new academic...

VIEWPOINT: Develop the Whole Student

VIEWPOINT: Develop the Whole Student

By Charlotte Hibbert September 26, 2024

Whether you have an “International Relations” paper due Thursday or a “Microeconomics” midterm on Friday, it’s easy to overlook the value of creative expression. However, the benefits of engaging...

VIEWPOINT: Pursue Accountability and Justice

VIEWPOINT: Pursue Accountability and Justice

By Adam Rothman September 5, 2024

This year, Georgetown University added a new element to the core curriculum called “Pathways to Social Justice” (PSJ). This curriculum introduces students to the idea of justice that runs through Georgetown’s...

VIEWPOINT: Make Fluency the New Currency

VIEWPOINT: Make Fluency the New Currency

By Charlotte Hibbert and Luke Landegger February 22, 2024

It is a well-known fact that students in Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business (MSB) do not have a language proficiency requirement. This exception to Georgetown’s core language requirement...

BELDING: Resurrect Latin in the Core

BELDING: Resurrect Latin in the Core

By Brinley Belding February 15, 2024

Cura Personalis, Utraque Unum — two phrases that lay the foundation of Georgetown University’s values and Jesuit identity. These sayings predate the university as their Latin origins indicate long-standing,...

VIEWPOINT: Don’t Follow Curriculum Mindlessly

VIEWPOINT: Don’t Follow Curriculum Mindlessly

By Lindsay Eiseman April 17, 2023

Lazy, deceitful and freeloading. These words have been used to describe unemployed people in my economics class. Last semester, when I enrolled in my first economics course, I anticipated boredom,...

EDITORIAL: Bolster Off-Campus Learning

EDITORIAL: Bolster Off-Campus Learning

By Editorial Board November 15, 2019

Conveniently situated in Washington, D.C., Georgetown University provides students the privilege of accessing the endless resources the city has to offer, from internship opportunities to free Smithsonian...

KIRK ZIESER/THE HOYA undergraduate students will be able to pursue minors in the college starting in the fall of 2019 after a vote of the SFS School Council.

SFS School Council Grants Final Approval for Cross-School Minors

By Max Levine January 23, 2019

The School of Foreign Service’s School Council voted unanimously to permit undergraduates to pursue any two minors or certificates offered by the university, beginning this fall. The School Council,...

EDITORIAL: Streamline Student Input

By Editorial Board September 7, 2018

Georgetown University's current system of processing and implementing student input regarding academic curricula is ineffective. By assembling a semesterly forum for student input with a review board of...

PANJWANI: SFS Should Cancel Class, Condemn Islamophobic CVE

By Aly Panjwani August 17, 2018

This fall, the School of Foreign Service will host a class titled “Community-Based Terror Prevention (INAF-262-01).” The course description refers to the Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) program,...

MUCHOW: Re-Engineering Entrepreneurship

By David Muchow April 25, 2018

Entrepreneurs seek to transform ways of doing business to create better results. But we can re-engineer how entrepreneurship is taught at Georgetown University so it can better meet the real problems entrepreneurs...

EDITORIAL: Develop Ethnic Studies Programs

By Editorial Board March 23, 2018

Georgetown University’s curriculum does not reflect the academic demands of its underrepresented communities. Ethnic studies programs empower students to learn more about their own cultures and the cultures...

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