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...philosophy behind the Core??s heir presumptive is a staggering departure from the Core??s ethos. It does not attempt to create intellectual breadth by introducing students to major disciplinary “modes of inquiry,” as the Core supposedly does now. Rather, the new general education curriculum strives “to connect in an explicit way what students learn at Harvard to life beyond Harvard,” focusing on buckets of subject matter rather than on disciplinary approaches to academic problems. In other words, instead of imparting knowledge to make...
...never quite clear what precisely was involved in introducing students to “modes of inquiry.” More often than not, Core courses are watered-down introductions to the hyper-esoteric, poorly designed examinations of how disciplines engage with academic problems. This present perversion of the Core??s philosophy has led to courses whose names would suggest an enrollment of just a few sub-sub-specialists attracting hundreds of undergraduates whizzing along this college’s path of least resistance...
...Literature and Arts B-20, “Designing the American City” this semester are less attracted to its riveting subject matter than they are to its impossibly low CUE Guide rating for workload. (At 1.8, it more than exceeds the threshold for “painless Core?? status...
...meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) on Tuesday, professors who drafted the final report cast their system as a significant departure from the Core??calling for new categories of required courses that would integrate “real-world” knowledge with a liberal arts education. Other Faculty members who spoke at the meeting largely lauded the report’s recommendations...
...appear to recognize the need for the new program. Timothy D. Turner ’09—who said he had taken several “TF-heavy” courses during his three semesters at Harvard, including Social Analysis 10, Economics 1010a, and a Science B Core??said the general quality of instruction in those courses needed improvement. “I only had one really good TF,” said Turner. “The rest range from okay to poor.” “I’ve known other people...