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...Core Program only exacerbates the situation. The SCCP-- the Core's governing body--has essentially refused to administer any type of academic booster shot to the ailing program. For instance, it rejected a proposal last year which would have added the European survey classes History 10a and 10b to the Historical Study Core area. These classes, which provide a considerable breadth of knowledge as well as a solid introduction to the methods of historical study, were turned down for the most peevish of reasons: they didn't precisely fit the description of Historical Studies...
First, this solution does nothing to ensure that students will be able to take full advantage of departmental offerings, because the SCCP will still have control over which courses are accepted for Core credit. Their rejection of History 10a and 10b doesn't exactly fill us with confidence. In essence, this solution will do nothing more than slightly enlarge the offerings of the Core. This would be a welcome addition, but hardly the paradigm shift we need. A similar solution might be to allow students to petition on an individual basis for any departmental class they wish, but this would...
...typical day in Leo Damrosch's English 10a or 10b class can include his singing songs, reciting poetry and doing impressions of characters' voices. But he wasn't always so sensational in his lectures...
...taking a course which discusses Marxism: I decided to take History 10b last year, and Marxism was on the syllabus. The first day of the course featured a discussion of depiction of genitalia in Western culture. I dropped the course...
...members of the subcommittee explained that "they had serious reservations about the appropriateness of the courses [10a and 10b] as Historical Studies offerings." 10a and 10b are eminently appropriate, and if the Core program does not think so, then it needs to dramatically revise its conception of a good under graduate education...