Word: core
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Core Program, heir to the World War II-era General Education requirement, was implemented after years of planning and deliberation to re-form the centerpiece of Harvard undergraduate education along more structured lines...
Replacing the 10-odd Gen Ed course requirements split between the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences, the Core introduced the notion of teaching "approaches to knowledge" in more specific areas including foreign studies, the arts, and "social and philosophical" reasoning. The Core's philosophy has been translated by administrators to mean non-departmental courses focusing not so much on facts as analysis, not so much on teaching a distribution requirement as teaching a "form of inquiry...
...many believe the Core has not completely met its broad educational aims. A frequent target for criticism is the Core's science content. In an otherwise rosy accreditation review last year, the New England Association of Schools and Colleges found Harvard's Quantitative Reasoning Requirement (QRR) superficial and criticized the absence of math in the Core...
...There is a general feeling that as we move into the twenty-first century, future citizens should know more science than the Core demands," says Dean of the Division of Applied Sciences (DAS) Paul C. Martin...
Currently, two courses in science are required by the Core. Students with adequate high school records may petition to drop one of these...