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...Core will die. The Core is a dead core. This core is no more. It has shuffled off its mortal coil,” English professor W. James Simpson said, imitating a Monty Python sketch...
...program’s success will depend on whether the committee is able to “hold their nerve” and reject proposals that do not fit the criteria, Simpson said. In doing so, it will preserve the desired differences between Gen Ed and the Core...
...evolution of the undergraduate program of general education has reflected and intensified this expansion of curiosity and knowledge. The postwar Red Book was profoundly and proudly “Western,” and emphasized the humanities more than the sciences. The Core, set up in the 1970s, asserted that it focused on different modes of thinking (something on which a divided faculty could agree), but it also introduced Harvard undergraduates to different cultures, to ethical reasoning, and to more scientific knowledge. The new general education program adopted last year (in a country in which anything that is 30 years...
...little to show after five years of debate. Although a preliminary report released a year and a half ago contained inspiring promises of engaged intellectualism and global citizenship, Gen Ed has since then devolved into an insipid mash-up of compromises that is essentially a redux of the old Core. A scant 37 Gen Ed courses have been approved for the 2008-2009 academic year, and only seven more for the following fall. Despite being set to supplant the long-criticized Core curriculum by 2009, a mere 60 proposals have even been submitted, many of which are nothing more than...
With both programs failing, students are caught between Scylla and Charybdis. Granting incoming freshmen a choice between the lame-duck Core and the skeletal Gen Ed will create even more confusion for students and their academic advisers, who are mostly in the dark about the process. The faculty’s own inability to articulate the new program does not help (it is disheartening to see administrators waffling on standard questions of academic eligibility and curricular options). Gen Ed has simply never been fully explained to students, especially those in the class of 2012, whom it will affect most...