Word: core
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...rather than take the next logical step and allow students to take more specific “knowledge-based” departmental classes instead of vague Core classes, the committee has opted for the opposite tack. The report sets out eight areas of general education with even vaguer titles than our current Core divisions, apparently favoring interdisciplinary superficiality over depth and coherence...
...heart of a liberal arts education merely because most students do not intend to remain in the academic world is ludicrous. Liberal arts education cannot simply be concerned with what is practical; if we begin going down that path, why not go the whole way and compose a Core Curriculum of accounting, carpentry, and “Empowering You?...
...aren’t sufficiently relevant to be included in the general education curriculum, the committee runs the risk of trivializing a host of departments and a number of highly distinguished academics. Though it may be that the scope of some courses makes them better suited to the new Core, the committee seems to be specifically accusing these courses of teaching material that is not worth knowing...
...front page of The New York Times.” Possibly not. But maybe this is an issue where the best course of action isn’t to make waves in the national press but to adopt ideas that have already worked. Working within the current Core structure, slightly revising the categories, and drastically increasing the number of departmental courses that count seems like a good starting place...
...Education in a town hall meeting last night, focusing on proposed approaches to science and math. Bass Professor of English Louis Menand and Professor of Philosophy Alison Simmons spoke to a group of 50 students that weren’t limited to UC members in Harvard Hall. Calling the core “old-fashioned,” Menand said that the current system fragmented knowledge into specific academic disciplines more suitable for the ivory tower than the outside world. “But 90 percent of Harvard students don’t become professors,” Menand added...