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...most significant recommendations outlined in the report are the deferment of concentration decisions until the end of the first semester of sophomore year and the institution of a presumptive cap on the number of courses that can be required for graduation at 12. Along with this cap comes the condensing of the current Honors and Basic tracks offered in all but 11 of the 40 concentrations to a single set of requirements, with the option to all concentrators to produce either a senior thesis or a “capstone project” for Honors consideration...
...change their minds about the areas they wish to study.” As admirable as these goals may be, there is little indication that the proposed revisions would, in fact, accomplish these goals. Take the intention to emphasize interdisciplinary studies. Interdisciplinary concentrations will only be constrained by a cap on requirements—environmental science and public policy, for example, currently requires 16 courses for its Basic track alone—and, as a result, they will be forced to limit not only the number, but likely the scope of their courses...
...perhaps most telling is the fact that currently just 18 of the 40 concentrations offer fewer than 12 graduation requirements, and only four of these include Honors tracks that remain consistent with the proposed cap. Clearly, the College’s standard for properly extensive academic work has been set higher than the cap would allow. The proposed limitations would undermine the quality of education the College provides, and even more so when paired with the possibility of producing a capstone project instead of a thesis. The undergraduate thesis offers a tried and true method for the development...
While Klein was putting together his stellar cap to his career, the rest of the Crimson tried to keep up and vault Harvard into contention for the team championship as well. The tournament consisted of five squads—Army, Bucknell, Lafayette, Dartmouth and the Crimson...
...advising. The average Economics concentrator will also learn less about other fields from the dumbed-down Harvard College Courses. And while their knowledge of scientific concepts will suffer from overly-broad, ill-defined courses, science concentrators’ understanding of scientific concepts will also shrink, from the decision to cap the number of concentration requirements at 12. The report, in other words, seems to have the unusual side-effect of ensuring that every undergraduate will be less educated (though at least evenly...