Word: core
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...committee also discussed restricted enrollments in Core courses. Several spring courses, including Foreign Cultures 48, "The Cultural Revolution," held lotteries to limit their size. Flynn said the council study turned up several complaints about such lotteries...
...First there is wooing and then backing andforthing," Pilbeam said of the long process todesign Core courses. Each professor goes through arigorous series of proposals and meetings withmembers of the Core's subcommittees, he said. Andeach faculty member who gains approval for acourse must agree to teach it for three years,Lewis said...
...year gap between idea and coursehardly seems to address the Core's pressing needfor an expanded slate of offerings...
...process can speed up for some professors.Lamont University Professor Amartya Sen onlyjoined the faculty last year, but he is alreadyteaching Moral Reasoning 36, "Facts and Ethics,"this semester. He said administrators urged him toteach in the Core when he first arrived atHarvard...
Administrators said haste in preparing thecourses was not the way to bolster the numbers offaculty teaching in the Core. But short of hiringmany more professors and lobbying those alreadyhere, they have found no answer to the dilemma,they said...