Word: core
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Like a teaching fellow in a Core course, these professors are taking points off for the omission of fundamental facts about economics and basic skills of scientific reasoning...
...taken lightly. The changes of the last few years—improved peer advising systems, new social spaces, and a more student-focused College administration—have only begun to bring the College up to speed with its competitors. Current students find themselves trapped within a dying core curriculum, with no clear guidance of how to navigate the changes currently underway. There is still no student center. Undergraduate advising leaves much to be desired. And, perhaps most importantly, a large number of undergraduate courses continue to harbor sub-par instructors, and faculty-student contact is worse than...
...Coping with the gulf between Iranian private and public life is an intricate skill that even adults here manage with varying degrees of success. Wearing masks or lying when required, all while keeping your core identity intact, is the daily business of adults who live in authoritarian societies. But how on earth do you teach children these skills? Is it possible, even, to raise an open-minded, healthy child in a culture that is fundamentalist and anarchic? That I have plenty of tolerant, sane friends who grew up here is proof that this can be done...
...should also be more active in soliciting student and faculty input on which existing courses might satisfy a general education requirement. The current system usually requires a professor to submit an application to the CSC, which places too high of a burden on professors and leads to too few Core classes. The new committee should seek out potential general education courses, rather than the reverse...
...more active committee,” however, is a platitude unless the committee changes in two specific ways. First, it must meet more frequently. This will help to prevent the situation the CSC found itself in this September, when it could not certify the Core status of four new Humanities courses until the Committee’s first meeting in October, leaving it to Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles and Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 to fastrack them into the Core. Second, committee members must conduct unannounced audits of classes that have...