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...committees of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) march to the beat of a very, very slow drummer. As shopping period races by, the Core Standing Committee and the Educational Policy Committee (EPC) have failed to keep pace, leaving students to suffer in the confusion of mixed tempos. Despite the promise that accompanied announcements of a secondary fields program and Humanities General Education courses, the disorganized implementation of curricular reform has made this shopping period a particularly chaotic...
...sure, is not alone in its plodding ways. The Core Standing Committee evidently missed their cue to act on last spring’s announcement of new Humanities divisional courses. As students thumbed through the nearly thousand-page Courses of Instruction, many were delighted to find classes such as Humanities 10, “An Introductory Humanities Colloquium,” and Humanities 14, “Existentialism in Literature and Film,” but they were left without guidance as to what general education requirement these general education courses would fulfill. The Core Committee’s failure...
...What happens to people in their society when other people tell them they’re not sane anymore?” asked Schuleit. “What does sanity mean any more? I’m drawn to that because it’s the very core of what makes us who we are.” Schuleit said she gets her inspiration for art installations from speaking with the people who have worked at a site for years. “The stories of the people that work in these places is the key to understanding these places...
Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language Louis Menand, one of the instructors of Humanities 10, said yesterday that while the Humanities courses don’t fit exactly into the standard model for core courses, current undergraduates need new core options until a full replacement for the core can be established in the coming years...
...Humanities] courses don’t fit very cleanly into the core categories because they are interdisciplinary,” Menand said...