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SOMETIMES, changes for the better come easily. Even at Harvard. The Standing Committee of the Core Curriculum decided last week to grant Literature and Arts B credit to students who took the earlier incarnation of the Core version of Music 30, "Jazz History for Non-Majors." Taught by Professor of Music Graeme M. Boone, the course was designed to serve as an introduction to jazz for non-concentrators...
These conservative critics say they are trying to combat a decline in the quality of the core curriculum at many of the nation's colleges and universities. They argue that, during the last 20 years, colleges and universities have become increasingly politicized, giving way to the demands of special-interest groups...
Critics of the Bennett agenda for curriculum reform say that his program represents a return to the ethnocentricity and the narrow-mindedness that prevailed in most college core courses in the humanities half a century ago. Further, they charge, it is as politically motivated as the push for a non-Western curriculum at Stanford which the Secretary condemned...
...renaming of Jazz as "An American Music" goes against one of the stated goals of Geyser University Professor Henry Rosovsky, one of the chief founders of the Core at Harvard. Rosovsky wrote...
...powers-that-be at the Core Curriculum may feel that the new Jazz somehow succeeds at embodying the philosophy of the Core while the old one does not. This is clearly not the case. To claim that there is a significant distinction between two courses which are virtually identical--in texts, listenings, professor, requirements, meeting time, course catalog number and exam group--is at best a poorly executed decision. At worst, it is a penalization of the students who demonstrated a true interest in jazz by taking the course before it became just another magnet for students filling requirements...