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Kishlansky predicted that the department would eliminate History 10a and its counterpart, History 10b, “Western Economies, Societies, and Polities: From 1648 to the Present,” in response to ongoing student and faculty opposition...
Concentrators currently have the option of substituting History 10b with History 10c, “A Global History of Modern Times,” or bypassing History 10b or History 10c with a score of five on the Advanced Placement European History or World History exam...
Rather than being limited to History 10a and History 10b, concentrators would have several course options within these two newly defined categories, Kishlansky said...
...article, "Hist 10a Could Be Ancient History," incorrectly characterized Baird Professor of History Mark A. Kishlansky's remarks regarding a proposal to change requirements for history concentrators. Kishlansky did say that the department was considering a proposal to scrap a rule that makes History 10a and either History 10b or 10c mandatory for concentrators, and to replace it with a requirement that concentrators take one pre-modern history course and another course geographically removed from their area of interest. However, Kishlansky did not say that the department was considering the outright elimination of the 10a course, which is formally titled...
...students are encouraged to take classes which do not actually represent the bulk of Harvard’s offerings. Many students spend two entire terms without taking a regular, 100-level departmental class. Distracted by Cores, freshman seminars, language classes (a requirement for many), introductory classes such as History 10b, or big science lectures that are often requirements for medical school, first-year students do not get their teeth into the kind of classes they will be taking throughout the rest of their academic careers. These introductory offerings are often watered-down experiences for which one really doesn?...