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...Harvard College in the renamed Cambridge went on to serve for the next 370 as a sanctuary and training ground for the preeminent minds of the world: Matt Damon, Natalie Portman, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, and the little-known John Adams. The scholars educated themselves in the “core?? curriculum of the age: scriptures, the languages of Syriac and Chaldee, ethics, imitation, epitome, and declamation. In the 1970s, this core was updated to include Lit & Arts C. Historians of the future will consider these 370 to be Harvard’s golden...
...Anthropologist Arthur Kleinman, a member of the Faculty Council, said that the “Ethical Reasoning” category had to expand beyond the political theory that is the focus of the Core??s Moral Reasoning requirement and include anthropological, psychological, and historical approaches to ethics...
...most prominent—and in our view the most important—features of the Task Force’s report was allowing well-qualified students to break out of the straightjacket imposed by the Core by substituting departmental classes for Core requirements. In place of the Core??s often absurd criteria for classes—for instance, it requires a final exam—the Task Force recommended a more flexible set of guidelines for vetting general education courses. The draft legislation, written by a three-member committee of professors, proposes the creation of a Standing...
...erudite and abstract for the dilemma at hand, like trying to fix a broken down car with a new theory of locomotion. The proposed shift from “ways of knowing” to “real-world context” will do little to address the Core??s real problem, which is that it promotes an atomized, individualistic type of learning while rarely encouraging undergraduates to take a meaningful role in each other’s educations...
...wide range of choice in the classes they take at Harvard.The Core Curriculum suffers from narrow restrictions and from an overly bureaucratic Core Office. Only 82 departmental courses are cross-listed for Core credit in the Courses of Instruction. Of those, 44 are concentrated in three of the Core??s 11 areas. A mere two departmental classes are listed as options for Foreign Cultures and Literature and Arts C, and only three can count for Moral Reasoning. Given that there are nearly 1,000 pages of course listings, the restrictions unduly limit students’ ability to take...