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While development of the centerpiece of last year’s report—the replacement of the Core Curriculum with a set of knowledge-based general education requirements—is still caught at the committee level, other committees have submitted ideas to the full faculty for review...
Along with its findings, the Committee on Race Relations also issued 13 recommendations, suggesting that courses on race relations be incorporated into the Core Curriculum and that affirmative action admissions be increased...
...Harvard College Courses, a January-term (J-Term), internationalization, revamped advising, and scientific literacy, among others—left much to be desired. They were vaguely defined and lacked the inspiration of previous reviews which gave us the “Red Book” of 1945 and the Core Curriculum of the 1970s. All of this was supposed to change this year as a set of outstanding essays on general education by members of the Faculty gave the curricular review a much-needed lift just a couple days into the fall semester...
Much of this year’s discussion centered on fleshing out the details of Harvard College Courses (HCC), the crown jewel of a general education platform proposed to replace the outdated Core Curriculum. Thus far the reports generated by the committee on general education have remained conspicuously vague. It is not for want of existing examples that HCC’s remain ill-defined. A quick perusal of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Courses of Instruction present a plethora of varied syllabi taught in an array of structures—lectures, sections, tutorials, seminars, and conference courses...
According to Addington, who became the team’s advisor for the competition, the design, entitled “The Tsunami Challenge: Outside the Tent,” is a new twist on an old concept: the core...