Word: core
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...students started shopping, classes were packed all around—often overflowing into hallways—with a disproportionate number of these courses counting toward the Core Curriculum. Though College administrators were able to predict that General Education classes would be large since freshmen have just one "U.S. in the World" class to look at this fall, they may have forgotten that there are still all those sophomores, juniors, and seniors who are under a curriculum that has already "shuffled off its mortal coil," in English professor James Simpson's words over a year...
...wait for it: its official title is Moral Reasoning 78, and only two other Moral Reasoning classes are being offered this fall. While this may force students to branch out, the options depend entirely on the specialties of the few professors who are still interested in teaching in the Core Curriculum...
Another professor whose course flier declares, "Wake up, it's the 7th century!" (for History 1040: "The Fall of the Roman Empire") is also teaching in the ancient Core. Though this Historical Study B class doesn't double-count toward Gen Ed, about 20 people couldn't get in, and upperclassmen were flooding the hallways to such an extent that one lone freshman girl on the window-sill had to ask, "Can freshmen take this...
Another tip to find out which classes are overflowing is to see which ones have fliers everywhere. Since Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding 26: "Gender and Performance" had fliers (along with a 4.8 Q Guide score) and counts toward both Gen Ed and the Core (Literature and Arts B), it hit the jackpot. Students were pouring out of the hallway onto the steps of Emerson Hall...
...affirmation of the principle that there should be special courses designed, in the words of [General Education task force co-chair] Alison Simmons, to bring knowledge to the student.” Faust detailed the progression from Harvard’s first Gen Ed report in 1945 to the Core Curriculum of the 1970s to today’s Gen Ed program. Simmons discussed how Gen Ed addresses two main themes: change and globalization. “Things change, and they change quickly,” Simmons said. “The hot new computer that you just...