Word: core
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...politics of global warming, or even just understanding that mixing bleach and ammonia is not a good idea, to be educated today means to be scientifically literate. It is embarrassing that this can’t be said of every Harvard College graduate. The basic problem plaguing the current Core Curriculum’s science program is a lack of rigor. Students can easily make their way through their 32 courses at Harvard without ever really encountering the scientific method or learning what a controlled experiment is. If a Harvard student doesn’t understand a scientific issue...
...said the long-awaited overhaul of the Core Curriculum—given fresh momentum earlier this month by the release of a new general education proposal—should be the Faculty’s top priority...
...said that the next Faculty meeting on Nov. 14 will have only one item on its agenda—the preliminary report released earlier this month proposing an overhaul of the Core...
...faculty discussions of the Core Curriculum in the 1970s were the most interesting of my entire 20 years as President and came closest to representing the ideal intellectual discourse that one would hope to find in a great university,” he wrote...
...Even the core group of campus activists—those students whose names appear over and over again in Crimson articles, Cambridge Common blog posts, and House list announcements of rallies or protests–are unsure. Some say that Harvard is experiencing a period of disengagement, whereas others point to SLAM, Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters Alliance (BGLTSA), Students Taking on Poverty (STOP) Campaign, Harvard College Democrats, the Harvard Republican Club, and ethnic and cultural groups as examples of the range of activism present on campus...