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During their first two years, students will fulfill the core requirements of both graduate schools and attend a weekly HBS-KSG joint degree seminar. Students will take electives from both schools in their final year and attend an integrative business-government course...
After the Task Force on General Education released its final report earlier this year, we were optimistic about the creation of a vibrant, flexible, and student-friendly general education system that would not merely be the Core version 2.0. Yet the proposed legislation to implement the new system has largely dashed our hopes. By leaving out critical details, the draft legislation has passed the buck to a new committee, the decisions of which could very well leave students with another lackluster and dispiriting general education system.One of the most prominent—and in our view the most important?...
...telling truism about undergraduate life at Harvard that we learn more from our fellow students than we do in class. It certainly describes my experience, particularly when assessed against the classes I took in the Core. However, it is not simply that peer learning often trumps academic learning, but that the two so frequently exist in entirely separate spheres. A truly revitalized undergraduate education would adopt methods that more strongly involve undergraduates as collaborators in each other’s educations; to this end, the Task Force on General Education’s final report should mark the start...
...basic methods of a Core class seem to have learned nothing from the innovative progress of education during the past century. Students attend lecture, read at night, write papers, and take final exams—each practice remains as solitary as it is antiquated. Students attend section for an hour a week and always have the opportunity to talk about classes in the dining hall or the dorm room, but the social dimension of learning is almost entirely extrinsic to the practice and principles of a Core education...
...While elementary and secondary education have benefited from progressive ideas of alternative learning, group work, and hands-on activity, higher education has retained an unfortunate commitment to antiquated Puritan themes of individual contemplation and work in isolation—both of which characterize the academic experience of the Core, the hours spent alone in the library, alone writing a paper, alone taking notes in a crowded lecture hall...