Five four‐year colleges: Reed College
MAR 01, 1968
Emphasis on an extensive senior‐year special project forms part of a program designed both as preparation for graduate school and as training for immediate employment in industry.
DOI: 10.1063/1.3034819
IN TERMS OF A PHYSICAL ANALOGY our curriculum is certainly an example of dynamic equilibrium—at times almost unstable equilibrium. It is in such a state largely as the result of tensions: tensions between theorists and experimentalists, tensions between classical ideas and modern ideas both as to subject matter and methods of approach, and tensions between an abstract, conceptual treatment and a phenomenological treatment. All of these tensions exist within the department itself; in addition there are tensions with our mathematics department as to who shall teach the applied mathematics, and that tension common to all liberal‐arts colleges between the need for a broad general education and the desirability of thorough specialized training in the major field.
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William L. Parker.
Reed College.
© 1968. American Institute of Physics
