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While the General Education program will require eight courses rather than the Core??s seven, freshmen continue to take Expository Writing, students strive for foreign language citations, and new secondary fields blossom. There will be little wiggle room for students hoping to graduate with 32 total courses and also pursue intellectual whims...
...don’t think it should be the case that incoming students who opt for the Core will find any dearth of courses,” said Jeffry A. Frieden, last year’s chair of the Core??s Subcommittee on Quantitative Reasoning...
Thomas F. Kelly, last year’s chair of the Core??s Subcommittee on Literature and Arts, expressed similar sentiments...
...different cultures, to ethical reasoning, and to more scientific knowledge. The new general education program adopted last year (in a country in which anything that is 30 years old needs to be replaced, even when there is nothing grievously wrong with it) carries forward the work of the Core??so that it aims, in fact, not only at making Harvard students good citizens of the U.S., but citizens of a shrinking world...
...College, however, does little to prepare students for this charge. While the current core??s QR requirement boast classes such as QR50: Medical Detectives and QR46: The Visual Display of Numbers, no class teaches a range of foundational topics—from statistical reasoning to model building—for the non-concentrator to learn. Introductory statistics courses, which are required by many empirical social sciences, cover the former, but leave one unacquainted with the calculus needed to build models. Math departmental courses, on the other hand, are heavy on calculus, usually so much so that students...