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...single Harvard student who likes the Core Curriculum. No doubt it will go unlamented once its long-anticipated, continuously-postponed repeal is finally accomplished. And then, the student body will let up some great declaration of “huh…whatever” to inaugurate the Core??s reincarnat…I mean, its replacement...
...suppose I never did value the Core. And I’m sure not about to right now. Yet, gradually, I’ve found myself brainwashed. Not by an illusion of the Core??s relevance—certainly...
Rules are rules, and however much College students despise the Core (and will probably come to despise its successor), they also must cope with it. Only the most brazen, worldly-wise student, at ease with casting his GPA to the wind, will remain obdurate to the Core??s nefarious invitation to partake of novel “global perspectives”—generously complimented by a course’s tinge of academic ease...
...requirements in general education greatly affects the new system. But the problem with concentrating on categories and nomenclature is that no matter what titles professors pass, the key to success is strict regulation on how courses fit into those categories; without regulation, the new “Core?? will inevitably devolve into its current incarnation, in which courses are included without regard for their content. The entire rationale for the demolition of the Core, however, is to remove the idea from general education that content is of secondary importance to methodology. The strongest defense that the new general...
...line description of a category on ethics, directly borrowing from the current Core Curriculum. And it kept several other components of the Core, including the requirement of two science courses, a year of foreign language training, and one course in a category much like the Core??s “Quantitative Reasoning.” The category most unlike any in the current Core addresses “what it means to be a human being”—but it has yet to be defined beyond the broadest strokes. “There are only...