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...Yesterday’s meeting was a continuation of a regularly scheduled Faculty meeting held last week, at which professors examined the “Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding” and “Culture and Belief?? categories...
...April 10 Faculty meeting, Professor of History of Art and Architecture Jeffrey F. Hamburger offered an amendment to expand the proposed subject heading “Culture and Belief?? to specifically include “History.” Quite reasonably, Hamburger characterized history as a universal academic category, “to the extent that we can claim anything to be a universal category,” and doubted that “culture and belief?? could be rendered intelligible without “the historical traditions that inform them...
...Faculty members spent nearly an hour debating whether to add the word “history” to the “Culture and Belief?? category of the program that could replace the Core Curriculum as early as Fall 2008. The amendment, initially backed by 65 professors, ultimately failed in an 88-68 vote...
...extent that we can claim anything to be a universal category, the study of the past is one such category,” Hamburger told the Faculty. An explanatory note to his amendment argued that “it is impossible to understand culture and structures of belief?? without discussing “the historical traditions that inform them...
...concern about a general education program that Harvard’s leaders are hoping will be approved by professors by the end of the academic year. The amendment aims both to insert “history” into the title of the proposed “Culture and Belief?? category and to ensure that the other seven categories include a study of the past, History Department Chair Andrew D. Gordon ’74 said in an interview. The legislation currently lacks an explicit history requirement. Passage of the legislation in a Faculty meeting vote would start...