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Students trying to fulfill core requirements in Historical Studies will now have an additional 12 History Department courses to choose from, after the Core Standing Committee (CSC) approved a total of 22 departmental courses as core alternates at a meeting yesterday afternoon. Four newly approved departmental courses will count towards Literature and Arts B, three for Moral Reasoning, two for Science A, and one for Social Analysis—all of which will likely apply retroactively, according to CSC student member Aaron D. Chadbourne ’06, who attended yesterday’s meeting. The push to approve more...
Every week, before Cambridge’s city council gets down to business, it opens the floor for public comment. During this period, any Cantabrigian may address the council for three minutes about any item on that day’s agenda. A core group of persistent citizens stretch this rule to the limit every week to advocate for the environment, defend the rights of the disabled, and expose abuses of power...
...described the goal of the continuing curricular review as bringing students in closer contact with professors, and urged that the still-undetermined successor to the Core Curriculum be grounded on student choice, rather than on specific required courses...
...Faculty has yet to agree on the next system of general education, which is the centerpiece of the current review and will likely replace the Core. But the review has already led to Faculty approval of a semester’s delay in concentration choice and the introduction of secondary fields—both actions that Kirby called part of an effort to bring students and professors together...
...students wait for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences to slowly turn its wheels and approve new requirements for general education, the lame duck Core curriculum remains. After Tuesday’s meeting of the Faculty and Arts and Sciences, it is more than clear that the proposed requirements—a broad system of general distribution requirements, rather than the current Core—will not be in place for the next school year. In the interim, the Core Standing Committee (CSC), which is the group of faculty members that determines which courses garner the label...