Word: core
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More troubling is the fact that concentrators must take two semesters of science in the Core, but need not understand calculus--a tool essential to modern economists. How can the Ec department pretend that an honors degree in the concentration is truly "honorable" if most students who receive one don't know how to take a derivative...
...generation of directors who were bred to break the rules of narrative film. Before the Revolution (1964) and The Conformist (1970) swooned with infatuation for radical politics and complex storytelling. With Last Tango in Paris (1972), Bertolucci looked to have conquered Hollywood on his own terms. Its desperate, soft-core sex and the voluptuous rankness of Marlon Brando's monologues stirred scandal wherever it played. While an Italian court was convicting Bertolucci, Brando and Co-Star Maria Schneider of obscenity, Tango was breaking U.S. box-office records for a foreign-language film...
...future, Baum said the Core Committee may create a new 'Science C' requirement, covering statistics and mathematics, to replace...
...Richmond said the QRR subcommittee would ask the Standing Committee on the Core to let members of the class of '92 fulfill both parts of the requirement by passing Statistics 100. By doing so, he said, the University could test the value of requiring a course rather than an exam...
Richmond said it would be difficult to change the requirements so that undergraduates would still take eight Core classes in a program with 11 categories instead of the current 10. He said the subcommittee expected the departments would disagree over which topics should be required for students in various concentrations, if it became necessary to exempt students from three courses apiece instead...