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Numerous departmental courses that meet the core's goals of providing breadth and tools for analysis fail to count for Core credit solely because they are aimed at concentrators: they have prerequisites or expect familiarity with material, spend less time explaining why one wants to study a subject and more time studying it, or demand more than could be expected of students seeing a subject for the first time...
...requirements that the course teach methods and analytic tools used by scholars, that it teach significant subject matter, that its teaching meet certain standards and that it contribute meaningfully to the breadth of a student's education--in short, the requirement that the course meet the goals of the Core--would be applied equally to all courses counting for Core credit...
...substance of the Core has changed since its inception [in 1974] as scholarship has changed" (p. 16). Even within a 20-year span, the grand scheme for educating Harvard students has had to accommodate progress in the academy. It is de facto a malleable entity, intended to provide breadth of knowledge and approaches thereto in the face of ever-changing facts, theories and hierarchies of importance...
...type of liberal arts education taught here seems to be at odds with the study of a subject as pragmatic as business, even at the graduate level. At Harvard, the breadth of subjects in the undergraduate curriculum need not have any direct consequence for one's career. The implication is that the practical aspects of one's education are not necessarily the most crucial. A triumph of intellectual curiosity over more pragmatic sensibilities, American students spend four years (British undergraduates only three) studying subjects without having to specialize in the fields that they will pursue...
...campus is an ideal well worth preserving. For first-years in the Yard, there are literally hundreds of potential friends within steps of each dorm's doorway, a nearly endless supply of ideological foes and drinking buddies. The sheer fact of geography, however, will severely limit the breadth of Apley residents' exposure to 3 a.m. political debates and spontaneous snow football games. And neither the high ceilings nor the claw-footed bathtubs of Apley Court will change this fact...