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This is not an uncontroversial position. Many academics believe that students at a liberal arts institution should learn a specific body of knowledge. But conversations with administrators, professors and students at Harvard found a general acceptance of the Core??s fundamental philosophy, as well as some criticism of the means by which its goals are achieved and a general undergraduate apathy. More often than not, students view the requirements as something to get done as quickly and painlessly as possible...
This purpose is a sound one, and the Core??s greatest failing is an inability to achieve it. Because of the structure of the current Core, students must select from an often arbitrary list of acceptable courses in order to graduate. Core courses are frequently far larger than their departmental counterparts, with all the impersonal bureaucracy that large classes bring. Smaller, more intensive or higher-level departmental courses would be equally effective (if not more so) at communicating “approaches to knowledge”—yet they are often marked off-limits to undergraduates...
...receiving core??Carl Morris, Dan Farley and Sam Taylor—made sure that Fitzpatrick’s throws were caught. Farley, especially, leapt for a 39-yard reception that surely would have been picked off otherwise...
Over the last four days, we have documented the Core Program’s persistent flaws. Still, the goal of the Core??to provide students with a broad liberal arts education—is one that we support. A distribution requirement would better achieve these aims while avoiding the Core??s inflexibility...
...often historical or literary and delve into issues of culture to a far greater extent than a Foreign Cultures Core; yet a foreign language citation does not fulfill the requirement, and students hoping to graduate are often forced to take less meaningful courses in order to meet the Core??s arbitrary regulations...